Example sentences of "[verb] turn a [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance if you want to turn an object on a lathe erm and you go from one end of a shaft to the other , no matter , supposing you do it ten times , erm the machine will take that cut in exactly the same time . |
| 2 | Rohmer was not going to turn a gun on him again , and he was not going to allow this to happen . |
| 3 | Marr would n't have turned a hair on that , thought Theodora , but she said nothing . |
| 4 | Subsequent or alternative drinks had to be paid for at saloon-bar prices , so Clive managed to turn a profit on the evening . |
| 5 | He felt as if his entire arm and hand were ablaze ; as if someone had turned a blowtorch on them . |