Example sentences of "[noun sg] and turn [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maria made the decision to sacrifice a certain amount of advertising revenue and turn the radio station into a temporary community service , as other stations and television channels were doing , monitoring the situation and providing updates , broadcasting official government warnings and advice to those districts likely to be affected by after-shocks and urging their local listenership to donate blood against a possible depletion of existing supplies . |
| 2 | This means you have to be careful if you take a break and turn the machine off during knitting . |
| 3 | I 've got it rigged so no one can find it but me , as I do n't want people being able to walk in here after dark and turn the lights on . |
| 4 | As they do this , take a card from the top , deftly place it on the bottom and turn the pack over . |
| 5 | A giant Worm on Monument Hill ; a giant Worm somehow feeding off hatred and able to use its power to link up with the Glory 's computer and turn the car into its servant . |
| 6 | Now this is n't your s shoulder directly , but it is the muscles that hold and support and turn the shoulder blade , and of course whenever you do anything with your shoulder the shoulder blade moves with it . |
| 7 | It is a wheel of vanes set at right angles to the sails , so that if the wind is not striking the sails , it must strike the fantail and turn the sails into the wind again . |
| 8 | that would take off one day and turn the sky black . |
| 9 | Dive down through the pellucid water and turn a boulder . |
| 10 | ‘ Dad used to threaten that if he misbehaved he would put our heads in the sink and turn the tap on , but he never did , ’ she says . |
| 11 | Hold the cork and turn the bottle , that 's the secret . |
| 12 | Just hold the cork and turn the bottle . ) |
| 13 | I mean I can tell you that there 's water in the pipe if you 're thirsty , but you need to go to the pipe with a glass and turn the tap on in order to er not to be thirsty any more , in order to receive the water . |
| 14 | He then described his proposals to reduce that cost penalty and turn the division from an operating loss into a satisfactory profit and return on investment . |
| 15 | Nearly every farmer had a barrel of the stuff in his cow house in those days and I had only to go into the corner and turn the tap . |
| 16 | Form into a ball , place in an oiled bowl and turn the dough over . |
| 17 | Otherwise , by securing railway concessions in Persia , the Russians could reach the Gulf and at one and the same time create their longed-for warm-water port and turn the western flank of the British in India . |
| 18 | The first thing you have to do is take the kettle to the tap and turn the tap on , and then take the kettle back from where you got it and plug it into the plug and , wait for the kettle to boil . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 20 | In this particular instance it is representational , as the ‘ performance mode ’ is , for the child is required to describe in action whatever the teacher suggests ( as in the example above , ‘ So you go to the bathroom and turn the doorknob ’ ) , but the ‘ exercise mode ’ has other characteristics that give it a special mental quality . |
| 21 | Yup , while most bands ship out promotional copies of their videos , U2 bring the Mohammeds to the mountain and turn the viewing experience into something ( typically ) larger than life . |
| 22 | Among them , tradesmen — a cabinetmaker , a cooper and a joiner — all single men , but this first return voyage also brought Mistress Ingledew , Tom 's wife , and their three children , the first family to take the step and turn the settlement into a whole society in the making . |
| 23 | Both of you need to hold out your hands in front and turn the right palm downwards and the left palm upwards . |
| 24 | ‘ Well it 's obvious why they want the first two — so they can use it as gas on the Front and turn the whole of Europe into zombies . ’ |
| 25 | To avoid northerly and southerly turning errors use the stop-watch and turn the required time at rate 1 . |
| 26 | First nominate your target and turn the gun to face it as you would a cannon . |
| 27 | Insert the jack plug into the stereo unit earphone socket and turn the volume control to a low level . |
| 28 | Exercise 3 : Tip out all the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle onto the table and turn the pieces the right way up . |
| 29 | Simply unscrew the nut and turn the tap on fully |