Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 This comes with one or more switches on the same ‘ plate ’ , operating different lights .
2 You bolt on the tail and wings you 've been towing behind on a trailer , flip a couple of switches on the dashboard , and then find a strip of flat land to take off from .
3 Ace , Defries and Johannsen could only watch as , almost in slow motion , Daak thrust out a fist to support his weight — and pushed down half the switches on the control panel .
4 He soon became a familiar hazard with his dog Kim , ‘ the village terror ’ , and his car in which he would career at fully twenty miles an hour down the narrow lanes .
5 And an hour down the golf range .
6 It entails beating up some chicken eggs , putting them into a syringe and squirting the uncooked scramble down the bird 's throat .
7 ‘ Let's stroll a bit down the Boulevard de Waterloo , ’ Marler suggested .
8 Better , fit a true mains switch ( e.g. a cord switch on the primary side of the transformer ) and hope that people will use it instead of the on-off switch on the radio .
9 Although Decimax 's current ad shows these switches to be of the keypad variety , our unit used membrane types ; each push of the switch on the plus or minus end gives a corresponding level change ( indicated by the LEDs ) on that particular frequency .
10 The tool can only be turned on by pushing a lock-off switch on the rear handle with the thumb , whilst depressing the two triggers on the front and rear handles .
11 Once , not long ago , an old film called National Velvet had been on television and when the young Elizabeth Taylor appeared on the screen he had at once been sharply reminded of Mary — and had exited , not with the escape key but with the switch on the set .
12 Tucked under the grill is the hotplate light , operated by a switch on the grill canopy , which ensures that your grill and hotplate are always clearly illuminated .
13 Press the switch on the fascia and it lights up a new world of controlled cooking .
14 Flicking the switch on the TV is one thing , but such reactions are more serious when it comes to real life situations .
15 Whitlock activated the switch on the dashboard and the glass slid into place , sealing off the back and front seats of the car .
16 She stayed near him till he slept , went out into the dark hall , switched on the light with pride and with the knowledge of what that little act meant , what it had cost , would cost ; she pressed a tiny switch on the wall , and electrons obediently flowed through cables , because the woman in the Electricity had so ordered it
17 For most children ‘ light ’ in this task means ‘ light bulb ’ as in ‘ Switch on the light ’ .
18 He snapped a switch on the wall socket .
19 She heard the rattle of the curtain rings as the blackouts were pulled across , and then the click of the switch on the standard lamp as Bella put on the light .
20 He flicked a switch on the percolator , which was set up in a recess above one of the work-benches , and reached for a fresh mug .
21 Woolley reached up and pulled the switch on the air-raid warning .
22 Computers , Fletcher maintains , always have their on-off switch on the back .
23 The figure pressed a switch on the wall and the bars of the cage disappeared .
24 Well you just switch it it 's a switch on the top .
25 There could be a switch on the bench .
26 Well usually erm modern telephones have got a switch on the back and you can switch them to pulse or tone
27 And then on 10 April 1544 came Henry 's chilling order to his brother-in-law Edward , earl of Hertford , to put all to fire and sword , burn Edinburgh town , so razed and defaced when you have sacked and gotten what ye can of it , as there may remain forever a perpetual memory of the vengeance of God lightened upon ( them ) for their falsehood and disloyalty … and as many towns and villages about Edinburgh as ye may conveniently , sack Leith and burn and subvert it and all the rest , putting man , woman and child to fire and sword , without exception where any resistance shall be made against you ; and this done , pass over to the Fifeland and extend like extremities and destructions in all towns and villages whereunto you may reach conveniently , not forgetting among all the rest so to spoil and turn upside down the Cardinal 's town of St Andrews , as the upper stone may be the nether , and not one stick stand by another , sparing no creature alive within the same …
28 If it helps the hon. Gentleman , I shall try to wear my tie upside down the next time I am at the Dispatch Box .
29 It is ironic that the conciliarist idea of power-sharing , buttressed during the fourteenth century by arguments taken from Aristotle , turned upside down the papal stance as expressed by Innocent III .
30 Being fired by two British directors in two British plays did not put Dustin off the British .
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