Example sentences of "turn on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This makes it easier to lean your weight into the turn and it is even more exaggerated when you turn on a wave face . |
| 2 | Turn on a worship tape and use it to begin to worship . |
| 3 | Turn on a light , make as much noise as possible , and even if you 're alone , call out loudly to an imaginary companion . |
| 4 | Try your concentration by studying on a seat in the park ; go where street traffic is loud through the window ; turn on a radio , turn it off . |
| 5 | They work at night because fewer people turn on the taps . |
| 6 | It was at a dinner party in the flat , when they were in the kitchen together fetching yogurt and raspberries , that I heard for the first time one of them turn on the other in anger . |
| 7 | At the enquiry which followed one manager said ‘ I always light the oxygen first , and when that is burning I turn on the gas ’ . |
| 8 | Wakelate came into the kitchen and Cleo , still standing stiffly by the sink , watched him turn on the gas of one of the wall lamps . |
| 9 | Programmed to react in kind , the Mechonoids turn on the Daleks , matching their ray guns with supercharged flame throwers . |
| 10 | ‘ So you go to the bathroom and turn the doorknob — push the door open — go inside — close the door gently behind you so that you do n't wake up anybody else in the house ; now you go to the basin — put the plug in — turn on the tap — it 's a very stiff tap … ’ ( p. 196 ) . |
| 11 | Just before we leave , I go into the kitchen and turn on the tap so his hot water can run down the drain . |
| 12 | When they do , they turn on the person and accuse him or her of being old-fashioned and not accepting them as they are . |
| 13 | Set up your tank , turn on the lights and admire your achievement |
| 14 | " Draw the curtains before we turn on the lights , " Seddon said . |
| 15 | I was gon na march into the flat , turn on the lights , make a noise , act dumb , spring the trap . |
| 16 | You ca n't open a paper or turn on the TV without seeing stories of plane crashes , women and children assaulted , famine in Africa and war in Serbia . |
| 17 | Since the arguments for and against co-operative R&D ventures turn on the existence of externalities , it is useful to organize the discussion around the three of these which have featured prominently in the literature : technological spillovers , pecuniary externalities , and environmental externalities ( for other taxonomies , see Spence , 1984 , Dasgupta , 1 98 8 , and the excellent survey by Katz and Ordover , 1990 ; on co-operation in R&D more generally , see Teece , 1992 , and Baumol , 1992 ) . |
| 18 | It took different forms ; , but all of them turn on the idea that ‘ God ’ means something like ‘ supremely perfect being ’ , and that supreme perfection must include the fact of actual existence . |
| 19 | Widnes will come out determined to show their fans that last week 's match has been pushed firmly into the background and turn on the kind of display which will carry them into round two in convincing style . |
| 20 | Calcium ions turn on the zygote at fertilisation , and a few years back were named the ‘ final common pathway ’ in cell death . |
| 21 | Turn on the kitchen cold tap and watch the water flow through the manholes . |
| 22 | Francis has last laugh as Owls turn on the style |
| 23 | If his novels are in any way romantic , it is because of the melodramatic plots , whether ( as in Poor Jack or Jacob Faithful ) they have a rags-to-riches theme or whether they turn on the discovery that the humble hero ( like Percival Keene or Willy Seymour ) is really of noble birth . |
| 24 | Switch to up-bullets , jump the fire and turn on the machine ( at the switch ) . |
| 25 | Remove any floppy disks from the drive(s) and turn on the machine . |
| 26 | Demi-pirouette , or turn on the haunches , in walk . |
| 27 | These relations turn on the question of the origin of production . |
| 28 | Both the major definitions of poverty — as an absolute and as a relative condition — turn on the question of individual health . |
| 29 | I read them a story — not the baby , of course — I go downstairs , I eat , I turn on the news … |
| 30 | For herself she was relieved she did n't have to struggle to harness their zippy , anarchic minds any more to a future of filing and fast food shoppers — till for Christ 's sake let's get married and turn on the telly and have some peace . |