Sentence examples for had just converted from inspiring English sources

It was kind of awkward: Ali had just converted to Islam and was not supposed to talk to white women with nobody else present.

Luckily for Ms. Griffin, a private developer had just converted a former office building into 317 rental apartments — the first new luxury building in the city in more than 40 years.

The owner of one hall, Joseph R. Riofrio, said that his family had also long owned a grocery and check-cashing business in town, but that he had just converted to renting movies, figuring that people would rather stay at home in hard times.

I refused to participate, and got written up because I told them that (a) this was an unreasonable goal, and it seemed like they were expecting the phenomenal growth of some stocks to be transferable to our situation; (b) there wasn't any place to put any more students, as they had just converted all of the 'extra' classrooms to admissions "counselor" offices.

It would happen in Spain without any major fuss while, at Bayern Munich, Philipp Lahm has just converted from a full-back to a central midfielder.

But what about comfy old Lufthansa?In the cut-price market, it already owns 24.9% of Eurowings, a small airline which has just converted its charter arm into a no-frills operation, germanwings.

Congratulations, you've just converted mpg to liters/100 km!

Last year, the museum signed a contract with the city's Economic Development Corporation to buy the city-owned site, at the entrance to the High Line, the abandoned elevated railway line that had just been converted into a park.

Eventually, of course, I carved out a niche, as university reporter: the former Bradford College of Advanced Technology had just been converted to a University, whose radical vice-chancellor (Edward Edwards) was known colloquially as "Red Ted".

It was only natural that I'd be drawn to Artpark, an old industrial spoils dump site in nearby Lewiston that had just been converted into a theme park for the arts.

Previously equipped with Hudsons, the unit had just begun converting to the more advanced Douglas Boston when Newton arrived.