Example sentences of "[vb mod] turn a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , with some tablets you 'll turn a yellowy-orange. generally , doctors do n't recommend them . |
| 2 | ‘ He 'd turn a 40-60 ball round the other way . |
| 3 | In one short lesson , then , Burton found that he could turn a decent offer of £10 into a ‘ fortune ’ of £30 a week . |
| 4 | There was no way in which he could turn a young man 's allegiance completely against his motherland in just three weeks . |
| 5 | There are some steamy bed scene , which may be too hot for most of Kylie 's young fans to see , but it could turn a whole new audience on to her charms . |
| 6 | As long as I kept just over 80mph I reckoned that , even in a red Porsche , the traffic police would turn a blind eye . |
| 7 | They were attached to the Royal Irish Constabulary yet had no police training , and , knowing the British Cabinet would turn a blind eye to their activities , they had quickly proved uncontrollable . |
| 8 | The government would turn a blind eye if the targets were foreign nationals , and particularly a despised Lebanese like Fawaz Younis . |
| 9 | ‘ God , that would turn a few of them over in their graves up there under the yew trees , ’ Benny 's father had said , but again there was no explanation of why . |
| 10 | It might not be to everyone 's taste or be able to last for hundreds of years but you have to admit that she would turn a few heads if she appeared sitting casually in your garden . |
| 11 | Down at about a thousand units erm you er b between ten thousand and a thousand units er you 'd suffer the symptoms of radiation sickness erm your hair would drop out and your teeth would drop out and you 'd vomit and your skin would turn a funny shade of green and and you 'd be very ill erm but you , you 'd probably recover er you might not but you , you , I mean people have actually had those sort of doses of radiation and have actually recovered er from it . |
| 12 | The flesh of many boletus species will turn a surprising blue colour when bruised as chemicals in the fungus 's flesh oxidise on contact with air . |
| 13 | So we 're parking illegally but the police actually have almo they 've said they will turn a blind eye to it if providing that we all do it sensibly and without and face like in the line of the traffic . |
| 14 | The Guyanese mining community is small but powerful and Indians fear that the government will turn a blind eye to their protests . |
| 15 | This demonstration shows how a dropped match can turn a foam- filled armchair into a death trap in seconds . |
| 16 | To have no line of communication to your own kind available can turn a tolerable solitude into a state of intolerable isolation ; and yet thousands of elderly people , who live on their own and are too frail to go out , are in this position . |
| 17 | He 's an accomplished chef and the culinary magic he weaves can turn a good holiday into a great one ! |
| 18 | And , as anywhere else , transitory lighting can turn a nondescript topography into a picture , as up on the Barkly Tableland where the narrow tarmac ribbon is frayed at the edges into blond tussocky grass as far as the eye can see . |
| 19 | We have already seen how a skilful vertical ordering of parts can turn a brutal set of chords ( Example 141 ) into something much more mellifluous ( Example 143 ) , with only the minimal modification of serial principles . |
| 20 | high interest rates can turn a wise investment into an uphill struggle . |
| 21 | A strong person with a scythe or today 's equivalent a strimmer , would be one answer , but any delay can turn a little grass into a hay crop . |
| 22 | I mean , there are many , many cases of injustice around the world and , the West , the British government , ca n't be responsible for all of them , but there 's , there 's one particular case of Iraq , where we 've already gone to war , to , in the cause of democracy and freedom , and I do n't believe that when Saddam offends again as he does day by day , we can turn a blind eye . |
| 23 | We can turn a blind eye to some of it , but the point is always reached when he goes too far , and intervention is required , usually only in the form of American attacks by aircraft on his offences in the em , areas where he 's not supposed to penetrate . |