Example sentences of "[conj] turn on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Demi-pirouette , or turn on the haunches , in walk . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | You can either write them in the built-in macro editor or turn on the Record function , which will record your keystrokes as you go along . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Switch to up-bullets , jump the fire and turn on the machine ( at the switch ) . |
| 6 | Ginny managed to take off her coat , put the milk away and turn on the oven before he ran the pad to earth on the table beside his armchair . |
| 7 | Just before we leave , I go into the kitchen and turn on the tap so his hot water can run down the drain . |
| 8 | Remove any floppy disks from the drive(s) and turn on the machine . |
| 9 | The simplest proposition seemed to call for endless repetitive explanation ; her steaks had become increasingly rare , and , most tiresome of all , whenever they made love , be it after breakfast , lunch or tea , she would leap from the marital bed and turn on the vacuum cleaner , spending the next twenty minutes cleaning an already spotless house . |
| 10 | There 's a pretty powerful body of opinion that thinks Germany and Britain will link up one day soon and turn on the States . |
| 11 | 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 . |