Example sentences of "switching [adv prt] [art] [noun] in " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |