Example sentences of "turned [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we were married , conjugal rights , it was the fifties , Jay , men had to have sex for their health and they could n't stop once they were turned on . |
| 2 | Most rocker switches are wired for one-way operation — that is , the light is turned on and off from just the one position ; but most are capable of two-way operation , where the light is turned on or off from two places — in a through room , in a bedroom , or top and bottom of the stairs , for instance . |
| 3 | Most rocker switches are wired for one-way operation — that is , the light is turned on and off from just the one position ; but most are capable of two-way operation , where the light is turned on or off from two places — in a through room , in a bedroom , or top and bottom of the stairs , for instance . |
| 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 | As for government mistakes , he said : ‘ I think that as a consequence of the Stock Exchange crash in 1987 , when the richest countries in the world all decided collectively to avoid a 1930s-type recession , and collectively there was an expansionist policy followed across the world and the tap marked ‘ money ’ was turned on , perhaps that tap was left on too long ; not only in our country but in other countries as well . ’ |
| 6 | But he was alert and sparkling , his motor well and truly turned on by the presence of Catherine Crane , and he probably was n't going to go home till he , or Catherine , dropped in their tracks . |
| 7 | Barbara Lohman of the Points of Light Foundation ( a non-profit organisation set up at the instigation of the White House ) says that today 's volunteers are ‘ not turned on by the martyrdom thing . ’ |
| 8 | Eleanor came wearing a red suit , and he felt so turned on that he forgot to put the water in the teapot . |
| 9 | Gina was not turned on by these sounds . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Once the pack is empty , another tap is turned on to send water to the rinsing nozzle inside the container . |
| 12 | Now the heat was being turned on , and this was where her inexperience would really tell . |
| 13 | Much to their surprise , when it was still pitch dark they were all disturbed by lights being turned on , the slamming of car doors , and their owners rushing around and shouting to each other with the raised voices of excitement and hurry . |
| 14 | ‘ Like I said , I enjoyed being with her , but you would have to be some kind of retard to get turned on in those scenes by thinking I am kissing a sex symbol … |
| 15 | We also have the latest in up-to-date technology — the TV set in the corner , which has a twin BBC-ITV facility , and , of course , a number of lights that can be turned on or off at the flick of a switch . |
| 16 | We were told that there would be a General 's inspection and the searchlight had to be turned on at a specified time , but when the great moment came we could not start the engine that drove the dynamo and darkness still prevailed . |
| 17 | If just one radiator is cold , start by checking that the radiator valves are turned on . |
| 18 | Fonda was able to say that he had first tried LSD a couple of years earlier , and had also been a spasmodic user of marijuana — in between more prolific bouts of drinking vodka or scotch — since 1962 when he was turned on by Jim Mitchum at the Carlton Towers Hotel , in London . |
| 19 | By ten p.m. certain members of the company were sniffing coke or had been turned on by acid or speed or grass . |
| 20 | Stimuli A and B were a tone and a light ; X was the verbal response of saying ‘ now ’ when one or the other was turned on , and Y that of saying nothing . |
| 21 | Lubrication in the woman , like erection in the man , is not under conscious control and can not be turned on or off at will . |
| 22 | A radio was turned on and it played music , which I found odd . |
| 23 | All contain the same genes , although different genes will be turned on in the different specialist cells . |
| 24 | It was a joy to see the speed and economy of effort with which the hoses were turned on . |
| 25 | The new construct — the growth hormone gene joined to a promoter that is turned on by traces of metal — was injected with a fine pipette into the nucleus of a fertilized mouse egg . |
| 26 | The growth hormone gene had been turned on in all the cells throughout the body and the increased production of the growth hormone had resulted in increased growth . |
| 27 | Transgenic mice provide a particularly powerful way of studying how genes affect development and how they are turned on and off . |
| 28 | Knowing how genes are turned on and off is an important step towards understanding the internal programme of the cell and how this is influenced by signals from other cells . |
| 29 | But what commits the muscle to this final pathway and what ensures that all the necessary genes are turned on at the same time ? |
| 30 | Now for me at least the light had been turned on . |