Example sentences of "turn [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turns on to its side and as I cling on for dear life I hear a startled cry from Nathan . |
| 2 | Felicity turns on to her stomach . |
| 3 | When An Teallach passes from sight behind foothills , the road turns down to scenery of a very different character , to the beautiful trees and parklands of Dundonnell and vistas of sylvan charm . |
| 4 | Each side in turn went close to dispensing with extra time , Crown hitting a post then Paul Gascoigne having a chip turned on to the bar . |
| 5 | There was something wrong with the ballcock , and if both taps were turned on to capacity at the same time there was an overflow outside . |
| 6 | Turned on to tap ! |
| 7 | Neither of them spoke as Dalgliesh negotiated the track and finally turned on to the higher road . |
| 8 | But even as the mainstream has turned on to S&M images , those involved in the scene have been subject to increased harassment from the authorities . |
| 9 | He had a moped hidden in some bushes not far away and now he 's turned on to the track going up the mountain . |
| 10 | Newman drove along the narrow road he 'd turned on to off the B4027 at no more than thirty miles an hour . |
| 11 | He adds that only two computer companies so far have sent manufacturing groups out to see what Crec is doing — IBM Corp , and ICL Plc , which has really turned on to ergonomics and the environment since it bought Nokia Data AB . |
| 12 | In TV , the cost is based on TV Ratings ( TVRs ) , which are the percentage of households in which the TV is turned on to ITV at the time the ad is run ; in press , the cost is per thousand readers ( or , occasionally , circulation ) of the given publication ; in cinema , it is based on audience sizes ; in posters , on people passing the poster and , therefore , able to see it . |
| 13 | He had turned on to his back and was sculling slowly with his forearms , face-up to the evening sky , the chill spreading in his limbs , spreading up under his ribcage , spreading behind his eyes . |
| 14 | The critical questions have to be turned on to the discipline and relevant examples furnished from within the discipline . |
| 15 | Strobe lights are turned on to full effect for ‘ Bring It On Down ’ , which comes complete with a sample of Donna Summer 's old disco smash ‘ I Feel Love ’ , incongruous amidst the white English chaos — albeit a very controlled and theatrical type of chaos . |
| 16 | The boy had turned on to his side , the fingers of one hand lightly touching his neck . |
| 17 | Along the riverside , hay would have been cropped several times through the summer , and then , at the end of the summer , the animals who had been on the fallow would be turned on to both the meadowland and the stubble of the arable before coming into the paddocks by the village over the winter , to be stall-fed on the hay cut from the meadow . |
| 18 | He had turned on to his stomach , flung his right arm over her — to make sure she did n't escape , Isabel assumed indignantly — and fallen instantly asleep . |
| 19 | They had turned on to a side-road now . |
| 20 | The barbecue is hot and ready , and the water has been turned on to heat for their showers . |
| 21 | Eight minutes later it was 2–0 when Des Aitcheson , scoring from close range after Neil Fullerton 's near post flick , had been brilliantly turned on to a post by the visiting goalkeeper . |
| 22 | I 'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who 'd been drinking in the pub . |
| 23 | Strobe lights are turned on to full effect for ‘ Bring It On Down ’ , which comes complete with a sample of Donna Summer 's old disco smash ‘ I Feel Love ’ , incongruous amidst the white English chaos — albeit a very controlled and theatrical type of chaos . |
| 24 | She was turned on to her stomach and handcuffs and thumbcuffs were applied to her , ’ Mr Williams added . |
| 25 | Subsequently , the collars were fully turned down to the conventional collar of today , while the cravats were transformed into bow-ties . |
| 26 | Although the chosen noise should initially be loud enough to gain the baby 's attention , it should be turned down to background level after 30 seconds . |
| 27 | But by nineteen ninety one , that had turned in to a deficit of a hundred million and one prediction suggests the deficit would have widened dramatically to six hundred and forty million pounds by the end of the decade . |
| 28 | These informants were turned over to British intelligence in 1981 under an operation code-named Ward . |
| 29 | A few have been turned over to groups in Arkansas , Florida and Texas . |
| 30 | The row , which inflamed doctors , was immortalised by the pictures of ‘ battling Granny Esther Brookstone ’ , the leader of Charing Cross Hospital 's branch of the National Union of Public Employees , demanding that the new hospital 's ‘ penthouse floor ’ of private beds be turned over to the NHS . |