Example sentences of "switching [adv] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It is rather like someone switching on a cassette in one room and then walking into another . |
2 | defiance of house rules ( e.g. breaking rules about playing with matches , about not switching on the TV before the children 's programmes begin , about sitting at the table until the meal is finished , or about not taking food out of the fridge without permission ) ; |
3 | Secondly , by temporarily switching on the auto-assessment of DCs facility for each package and the packages referencing it . |
4 | Such a process may be comparable to the experience one has when switching on the radio in the middle of a discussion programme and trying to understand the discussion through a partial reconstruction of what must have been said already , who the participants must be , and so on . |
5 | Then she had to imagine switching on the light in that cupboard under the stairs and taking a couple of steps forward so that she was just inside — but with the door open to the hall and with the knowledge that she only had to take a single large step back to be out there again . |
6 | The team of non-professional drivers reached the high point of 109 mpg and a low of 94 mpg , merely by accelerating smoothly , braking gently , and switching off the engine in traffic jams . |
7 | Switching off the lights at 11 p.m. would deny many of them their private study-time . |
8 | Now I asked her whether she felt able to imagine switching off the light in the cupboard , still leaving the door open to the hallway . |
9 | He left the room , switching off the light behind him . |
10 | The oil is normally cleaned by switching off the transformer for a week and draining the oil and transporting it to a special depot for decontamination . |
11 | He uncovered his head only after switching out the light at bedtime . |