Example sentences of "turn [pers pn] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modernization eventually takes away children 's ability to earn and turns them into a cost as they need education to earn as adults . |
| 2 | Highlights include ‘ Allergy plight of nice-girl Nicky — ‘ one sip of vodka turns me into a sex maniac ’ ’ ( News of the World magazine ) and ‘ Women could be turned on by a chunk of cheddar ’ ( People ) . |
| 3 | But when I think about how I feel for you , it turns me into a Hercules and I feel I can conquer the world . ’ |
| 4 | They started as self-defence systems , but more than 2,000 years of refinement have turned them into a way of life . |
| 5 | It has , for example , turned me into a complete Danny Baker fan . |
| 6 | ‘ Can I help it if your debauched skills have turned me into a … a strumpet ? ’ |
| 7 | It 's turned you into a human being yet ? |
| 8 | ‘ All that health food 's turned you into a zombie . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I think , ’ she said , deliberately lowering the tone of her voice , which was bordering on the hysterical , ‘ that something happened to you in the past , you loved someone else , and it 's turned you into a bitter man . |
| 10 | She has turned you into an image of herself . |
| 11 | The huge international interest in Brightness which followed his escape to freedom in Turkish waters , has turned him into a valuable commodity . |
| 12 | Modern society , he said , no longer required either the nineteenth-century intellectual or the ‘ perfect individual ’ of German classicism , but rather the citizen who was a member of a community , and whose education had turned him into a ‘ social being ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ His addiction has turned him into a cheat and a liar ’ |
| 14 | I ca n't believe you 've persuaded Sharpe to attend , or have you turned him into a dancing man ? ’ |
| 15 | Luckily , though , his adventures had already turned him into a local hero , and his bosses were only too happy to allow him to devote as much time as he wanted to his art . |
| 16 | Something I do n't understand turned her into a neurotic depressed agoraphobic . |
| 17 | ‘ She 's turned her into a proper little snob ! ’ |
| 18 | Doc Threadneedle had turned her into a human perpetual motion machine , like one of those dipping birds her father had bought her as a child . |
| 19 | If all her rough times had turned her into a pickpocket , at least they had n't defeated her . |
| 20 | Fa 's intelligence might in any circumstances have turned her into a leader , and this too would have broken their social convention : " " " A man for pictures . |
| 21 | Ken Russell took the removal of restraint and stiff-upper-lip repression that American finance had encouraged and turned it into a distinctive aesthetic style . |
| 22 | One such building in the suburb of Karlshorst was a Stasi training centre less than a year ago , and has now been handed over to local artists , who have turned it into a Kunst Haus ( art house ) and bar . |
| 23 | By the 1950s , The Ridges was the criminal ghetto of Newcastle , and by the 1970s a costly council manicure job had turned it into a free-fire zone . |
| 24 | In Manchester the handover has allowed it to offload heavy costs such as bridge maintenance , while in Sheffield the running of the tram system into British Midland 's station has turned it into a major transport terminus , which includes buses . |
| 25 | Aviemore , the Highland village on the fringe of the Cairngorms , was planned as a tasteful , Alpine-style centre , but garish commercial developments have turned it into a dump . |
| 26 | In many respects , the moral problems that America has have turned it into a street of shame . |
| 27 | The assembly was dissolved in 1986 because the remaining Protestant members had turned it into a forum for opposing the Anglo-Irish Agreement signed in November 1985 . |
| 28 | If Knightshayes had been a really fine Victorian garden , you 'd have had to keep it as it was , but we 've turned it into a twentieth-century garden and that 's what the Trust has taken . |
| 29 | The château was empty , almost derelict , and they have turned it into a small hotel and restaurant . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's gone now , they 've turned it into a boutique . |