"turn" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This television series followed a veteran policeman turned private detective.
- When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private detective to track the killer down.
- Someone launches a vendetta against the team and Katie turns detective to find out who.
- "You've got enough to puzzle your brains over without trying to turn detective."
- He has to turn detective in order to solve the case and thereby save his own skin.
- A journalist turned detective, he is a rather weak and unpleasant man, generally disliked by all.
- With hundreds, if not thousands, of other paintings continually on his mind in one context or another, he saw no reason to turn private detective.
- Never in his life had Carpenter felt the urge to turn detective.
- The police would be investigating murder this time, not a disappearance, and that was likely to make everyone they talked to turn amateur detective.
- She turns detective, aided by her boyfriend (David Wallace) to find out the truth.
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