Example sentences of "turn into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking on the bright side , I think this corner of the magazine could turn into a piece of gladiatorial entertainment ! |
| 2 | Mr Stefan Heym , the East German author , warned yesterday that the dream of a democratic revolution could turn into a nightmare . |
| 3 | Remember that quotations and estimates are not the same thing , and that a low estimate can very easily turn into a high bill . |
| 4 | This can quickly turn into a game of bluff . |
| 5 | When down himself ( very seldom ) , he could count on a pratfall from his hysterical shaman , Drew ‘ Bundini ’ Brown , on the latest bizarre news from his scheming court , maybe a straight line from some reporter that he would turn into a ricocheting soliloquy on , say , the disgusting aesthetics of dining on pig . |
| 6 | And then the hour would turn into a long space of empty time , then into a whole evening , once even into an entire night before Gloria came back . |
| 7 | He explains : ‘ Summer holidays in a French village can be great fun , but the place can turn into a different proposition in the depths of winter , when you are far from friends and family , especially if you do n't speak the language . ’ |
| 8 | On busy Saturdays particularly near Christmas the playground can turn into a playground if the school is situated near a popular shopping centre or major football ground . |
| 9 | ‘ Yeah , watch me turn into a pumpkin any minute now . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But a wolf does n't turn into a watchdog just by folk wishing it . |
| 11 | Kate 's M in particular gets v. waspish on the subject , assumes that this will be the end of Kate 's career , she 'll turn into a huge cow and smell of milk . |
| 12 | Nails ' strategy turned out to be simple : if you put a non-swimmer in deep water it would turn into a swimmer through mere self-preservation . |
| 13 | This close following can easily turn into a competitive game of tag . |
| 14 | If you set an area outside which you can not sail then tag one another by doing a tack or a gybe around them , it can turn into a very good game where you can build up your own tactics . |
| 15 | I thought of all the multitudes who had lain upon its hard , steel bed staring upwards , their fears and hopes filling the room , waiting only for its pronouncements when can easily turn into a foe . |
| 16 | Given this set of circumstances , it could be that the new wave of information technology firms will never turn into a real breaker , but be seen in a few years as just a ripple on the pond . |
| 17 | However tenuous it may have become , once a marriage is under threat it can suddenly turn into a territory which has to be defended at all costs , like the Falklands . |
| 18 | Sometimes a cake may be sent to school for the children to share ; sharing a cake for a large group of children would not be done by the children themselves , though it might turn into a spontaneous counting activity . |
| 19 | This might turn into a game . |
| 20 | In the wet months it could turn into a quagmire . |
| 21 | Jack felt his stomach turn into a cold and leaden ball . |
| 22 | Just when she had decided to go back to her room rather than turn into a block of ice , a warning creak issued from the men 's corridor . |
| 23 | But at 50°s ; F , it can take 72 hours for food to pass through the gut , and much below that temperature , digestion ceases , Koi fed on a warm winter 's day will then have to pass a cold winter night , when a gutful of even low-protein pellets can turn into a pathogenic sludge causing liver and kidney failure . |
| 24 | My chauffeur-driven car would turn into a Ford Escort with clutch trouble , and my flower-decked en-suite dressing room would turn into a nail in the wall . |
| 25 | My chauffeur-driven car would turn into a Ford Escort with clutch trouble , and my flower-decked en-suite dressing room would turn into a nail in the wall . |
| 26 | It is , of course , pathetic that a man who used to be a raging republican should turn into a slavering royal poodle , just as it is sad that his economic and political principles should have become as unrecognisable as the Welsh rugby team . |
| 27 | But when it comes to choosing the wine , it can turn into a nightmare . |
| 28 | THE dream of a good night 's sleep can turn into a nightmare for one in five people who often find themselves awake into the early hours . |
| 29 | What was at best a speculative investment six months ago by five of the six major accountancy bodies , the BBC and accountancy trainers BPP , looks now as if it could turn into a roaring success . |
| 30 | This can turn into a driver where people then feel they have to achieve everything in the fastest possible time . |