Example sentences of "turned to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she was smiling warmly too , her whole face sweet and happy , because it had been a charming sight — Lucenzo bowing with old-world charm over the old lady 's hand , and the softened chocolate of his eyes , which iced up immediately they met Meredith 's , and the gentleness of her expression turned to bewilderment . |
| 2 | Shiona smiled shakily , as her shock turned to bewilderment . |
| 3 | The great Dust Bowl which Maggie has seen only from the air , was once the long flank , the turning of the armpit of a dragon greater than Fenna , the great dragon laid out across the world its tail cooled by the oceans of the Antarctic and its breath , no longer fire , turned to ice around its head in the most northerly places of the globe . |
| 4 | Her stomach turned to ice and her skull to fire . |
| 5 | Her blood turned to ice . |
| 6 | Polly 's blood turned to ice . |
| 7 | For a quick snack I turned to milk chocolate . |
| 8 | In later years he turned to golf and became one of the most successful amateur players in the history of the sport in Canada . |
| 9 | When I gave up cricket , I turned to golf . |
| 10 | He completed some work on snake venoms and , turned to lysozyme . |
| 11 | He then turned to road racing in a Cooper and continued his run of success . |
| 12 | One obvious was of demonstrating that this system was a specific historical product was to show that it was not always so , and Marx and Engels turned to history and anthropology to demonstrate this . |
| 13 | The Arts : All that glitter turned to gold |
| 14 | MIDAS TOUCH Before the collapse of Canary Wharf ( right ) , everything turned to gold for Albert , left , and Paul Reichmann |
| 15 | In her room at the Hôtel des Indes in The Hague she contracted pneumonia which turned to pleurisy . |
| 16 | The legions lived on cabbage and polenta and wine that turned to vinegar with the shaking up it got . |
| 17 | When she stood and turned to refreshen my drink , the bristly hem almost covered her double-fisted backside . |
| 18 | Disapproval turned to horror when both boys set off in their Mirages for the Falklands . |
| 19 | The pictures Elizabeth took that day have become more than just snaps of a holiday that turned to horror . |
| 20 | A FAMILY 'S jinxed trip to Disneyworld started in disaster , turned to horror … and then went from bad to worse . |
| 21 | But excitement turned to horror when the trail led to a woman 's remains in a shallow grave . |
| 22 | But gratefulness turned to horror on October 28 last year when , McConville , of Lurgan Road , Aghagallon , assaulted her four times in the space of three hours . |
| 23 | TWO people were shot and a young woman was taken hostage yesterday as an Easter Sunday love triangle turned to horror . |
| 24 | Among East Anglian property pundits , alarm over what Mr Lamont might be planning for the region 's property market turned to relief as it became clear he had no major upsets in store . |
| 25 | Chogyam turned to Dad . |
| 26 | I did n't like to see him like this so when the second man had gone I turned to Dad . |
| 27 | We must have looked pathetic because the man paused , looking at us , then he turned to Dad and said if Dad promised to call at the office he would n't report the matter . |
| 28 | Mr Gillance said : ‘ He turned to dishonesty in the hope of providing something for the two of them because by then they were in debt . ’ |
| 29 | He turned to Shamlou for sympathy . |
| 30 | His wariness turned to unease — he ought to have suspected something ; no richly dressed gentleman handed you a fill of tobacco on the open road — his unease began to scramble to panic : he let his pipe go dead . |