Example sentences of "switch the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the infamous ‘ night of the long keys ’ National Front deputés , finding the chamber empty as usual , rushed around all the empty desks switching the keys left in the voting machines , registering a massive vote in their favour ( which was subsequently declared null and void ) . |
| 2 | They also stopped switching the jumpers around , allowing Bayfield , in particular , a bit of time to settle . |
| 3 | It was not simply a matter of switching the definitions of crime from what the working class do to what the capitalist class do ( that would merely be a transitional strategy ) ; in the socialist society both upper- and lower-class crime would disappear since there would be ‘ a set of social arrangements in which there would be no politically , economically and socially-induced need to criminalise deviance ’ ( Taylor , Walton and Young , 1973 , p. 270 ) . |
| 4 | After an hour or so they are given a brief rest by switching the lights off and then they are tested by being given a choice between attempting to follow the light on which they had been imprinted ( say the red ) and another , unfamiliar light , say the yellow . |
| 5 | The Brigadier was bouncing the jeep once again along the road out of Pontino , sending up sprays of wet grit and grumbling continually under his breath , this time because he had to keep switching the wipers on and off . |
| 6 | Chatichai Choonhaven , the Thai Prime Minister , carried out further Cabinet changes , switching the portfolios of Maj.-Gen. |
| 7 | The muscles contract immediately before the bat emits each outgoing pulse , thereby switching the ears off so that they are not damaged by the loud pulse . |
| 8 | Claudia dived into her pocket , dropped the sleeping pills into the mug , stirred swiftly and rapidly switched the mugs round . |
| 9 | As they reached the outer suburbs it began to drizzle slightly and Preston switched the wipers on . |
| 10 | Bobby Beasley says that there were two grey horses in the yard and two days before the race , they switched the horses and the other one was doped . |
| 11 | comes back and says when the teacher come , the teacher was there this time , urgh the showers are on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and then they all start chanting Geoffrey switched the showers on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and er , loads of them , not just him , a load of them did it , and he , he started to cry , and then that was it then were n't it , ooh tiny tears , tiny tears , ooh poofter , poofter , crying and all that I mean he had a right day with it , so he goes to school this morning in Geography and the every body in the class , the girls and every body were going tiny tears , tiny tears , and he said I just ignored it today he says I just took no notice he says , but they 're all going , how 's your tears Geoffrey , are we going to cry again today , he says and they were trying to get me to cry today he says , but I just took no notice and Stuart kept going like this Geoff and he says I just went so he , he did the same back and then he went Geoff and Geoffrey just went , I mean what you do ? , |
| 12 | comes back and says when the teacher come , the teacher was there this time , urgh the showers are on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and then they all start chanting Geoffrey switched the showers on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and er , loads of them , not just him , a load of them did it , and he , he started to cry , and then that was it then were n't it , ooh tiny tears , tiny tears , ooh poofter , poofter , crying and all that I mean he had a right day with it , so he goes to school this morning in Geography and the every body in the class , the girls and every body were going tiny tears , tiny tears , and he said I just ignored it today he says I just took no notice he says , but they 're all going , how 's your tears Geoffrey , are we going to cry again today , he says and they were trying to get me to cry today he says , but I just took no notice and Stuart kept going like this Geoff and he says I just went so he , he did the same back and then he went Geoff and Geoffrey just went , I mean what you do ? , |
| 13 | comes back and says when the teacher come , the teacher was there this time , urgh the showers are on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and then they all start chanting Geoffrey switched the showers on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and er , loads of them , not just him , a load of them did it , and he , he started to cry , and then that was it then were n't it , ooh tiny tears , tiny tears , ooh poofter , poofter , crying and all that I mean he had a right day with it , so he goes to school this morning in Geography and the every body in the class , the girls and every body were going tiny tears , tiny tears , and he said I just ignored it today he says I just took no notice he says , but they 're all going , how 's your tears Geoffrey , are we going to cry again today , he says and they were trying to get me to cry today he says , but I just took no notice and Stuart kept going like this Geoff and he says I just went so he , he did the same back and then he went Geoff and Geoffrey just went , I mean what you do ? , |
| 14 | I switched the headlights on . |
| 15 | More often Hanka Zborowska switched the lights off and they pretended to be out so that Modigliani would not come up and ask for an advance on the next day 's work . |
| 16 | He switched the lights and engine off . |
| 17 | And if they did n't get up when the Night Sister switched the lights on , they were on the Matron 's mat , and they lost that hour . |
| 18 | He found the meter and turned on the mains , and then switched the lights on after closing the drapes — it would look a lot less suspicious than the occasional flicker of torchlight across the glass . |
| 19 | Tony Finnegan-Butler , chairman of Frinton and Walton Town Council , said yesterday he had managed to persuade the district council to switch the lights on again for a period of four hours at a reduced expenditure . |
| 20 | His first move would be to find the airport 's long-stay car park and to switch the plates on his vehicle for those on one of the more recent arrivals . |
| 21 | It intends to switch the boats to other routes if the bridge goes ahead . |
| 22 | If you used real plants , switch the lights on too . |
| 23 | You know what it costs to run , switch the lights on , you know what it costs to run a conveyor belt for goodness sake , and yet it , and if , if you , if you lose money on , on shifting one parcel , I know if you shift a hundred thousand you might make something , but the chances are high that you wo n't , and , and I mean there are people shifting more parcels than us , I know that , they ca n't make any money out of it . |
| 24 | switch the lights off it should be okay I mean I just do n't know |
| 25 | I 'd go straight over there and switch the fires on . |
| 26 | On a shelf to the right ( or left , whichever you prefer — simply switch the ends of the bellows if you prefer a left-handed operation ) sits the box bellows . |
| 27 | You tell them can we just switch the phones off for a couple of minutes , no , no calls on are they ? |
| 28 | ABBERLEY : Can we switch the spotlights off ? |
| 29 | He said : ‘ I will keep her on the same round but I will keep an eye on her and may switch the rounds . |
| 30 | Can I switch the lights on ? |