Example sentences of "and turned it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day after , Jamie came in with the wooden dish of porridge , held it out to Cameron , then twitched it away when he reached for it and turned it upside down . |
| 2 | Lord Justice Butler-Sloss said that while still working for others , they bought a property and turned it into an hotel , with Mrs Gojkovic working hard alongside her husband . |
| 3 | Here was a person who took a faculty in another university and turned it into the most famous faculty in the land . |
| 4 | Still , although many would argue that the exterior changes have robbed the Polo of its identity and turned it into yet another Eurobland shopping car , at least it no longer looks dated . |
| 5 | Deracinated urban youths have built upon this uncompromisingly physical attitude to games and turned it into a different , more aggressive , and organized subculture . |
| 6 | For all my nagging , he 'd got the message and turned it off . ’ |
| 7 | Which was why he dipped the second piece of fried bread carefully in the egg and turned it about , concentrating on making it yellow all over . |
| 8 | The relentlessly lumbering movie machine has taken a truly extreme , hallucinatory book about oppression and obedience , juiced it up with some patronising love interest and turned it into a standard ‘ women 's issues ’ film : sanitised , regulated and pointless . |
| 9 | He groped his way through the shadows at the foot of the stairs , located the large brass handle and turned it with both hands . |
| 10 | Mendes rescued a Chichester revival of London Assurance at short notice and turned it into a hit . |
| 11 | At last she got it in and turned it and pushed the door . |
| 12 | He wrote : ‘ The gods seem to have possessed my soul and turned it inside out … so that it was impossible for me to stay idle at home . ’ |
| 13 | Sandison took the hat and turned it over in his hands . |
| 14 | They employed hundreds of workers who had previously known lace-making as a domestic craft , and turned it into a mass-production industry which brought an end to cottage lace-making here and in the villages of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire . |
| 15 | The offence was compounded when one Anthony Hurke released the animal from where it had been impounded and turned it back to the Down and was himself fined . |
| 16 | that the Germans had tidied it up a bit and turned it into a garden . |
| 17 | He leased a field in the area and turned it into a cricket ground . |
| 18 | To this end , Malc and I rented a shop in a local precinct and turned it into a café . |
| 19 | He had come to the corner , and turned it ; and beheld the carriages . |
| 20 | She fitted the key and turned it . |
| 21 | Masklin picked the Thing up and turned it over and over in his hands . |
| 22 | She 's taken this public access show and turned it into something completely entertaining . |
| 23 | The little Scot 's impish skills were at their most destructive last November when Leeds visited Villa Park for a live TV match and turned it into a Sunday slaughter . |
| 24 | Its huge success grated even more , especially as it had been a Labour paper until Murdoch had bought it and turned it into a cornerstone of his international media empire . |
| 25 | Tabitha went over and turned it on . |
| 26 | ‘ And turned it down again before slitting his own throat ? |
| 27 | He reached for the engine control and turned it up to full power . |
| 28 | Murdoch immediately relaunched it as a tabloid and turned it against the flagship of its previous owners . |
| 29 | He is not some hack student politician who has commandeered a pressure group and turned it into a vehicle for self-advertisement , his eyes trained all the while on a safe Tory seat . |
| 30 | Leaning forward , he took her hand , smiling , and turned it so that it lay , the back upwards , in his strong square hand . |