Example sentences of "switch on the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guards should properly refer to ‘ switching on the darks ’ , since what they call lights seem expressly designed to suck all traces of illumination out of the carriage , casting shadows into every corner . |
| 2 | The only recorded royal tram ride in the first hundred years of Blackpool tramways occurred on 21 October 1937 , when HRH The Duke of Kent ( the present Duke 's father ) visited Blackpool to open Victoria Hospital , the lifeboat house and Princess Way , culminating in him switching on the Illuminations . |
| 3 | Cos we came in and Chrissy , instead of switching on the children 's programmes put his computer on so we did n't see it . |
| 4 | Each year a celebrity is chosen to switch on the Illuminations in Talbot Square , followed for many years by a tour of the Lights by tram . |
| 5 | She drew in her head , shut the windows , pulled the heavy cream linen curtains , and switched on the lamps ; they glowed cheerfully over the primrose chair covers and the yellow silk bed quilt , upon which Adam lay naked . |
| 6 | She made herself coffee and switched on the lamps . |
| 7 | She switched on the lights , dumped her bag on the table and turned to him abruptly . |
| 8 | ‘ Any particular section ? ’ asked Hayman as he switched on the lights . |
| 9 | Eloise switched on the lights . |
| 10 | He switched on the lights and drove down the tank paths towards the front gate . |
| 11 | The security man swung open the door to the boardroom where the party had taken place and switched on the lights , revealing the room as Blanche and Dexter had last seen it the day after the killing . |
| 12 | Josie switched on the lights for the department 's makeup mirror , and Lucy winced as the brightness hit her . |
| 13 | Indoors , she flicked the rain from her hair and switched on the lights . |
| 14 | He switched on the headlights as the car entered the M1 at Brent Cross . |
| 15 | Ward switched on the headlights , glancing at me quickly , a tight little smile . |
| 16 | When the whirring reaches peak pitch you flick the switch down to engage , listen for a quickly descending groan , count two blades , switch on the mags and hit the booster coil before the flywheel loses all its impetus . |
| 17 | When they were switched on the lights flooded out across the bare , flat expanse of moorland just beyond the perimeter of their property . |