Example sentences of "turned [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 FACED with cuts of around 15 per cent in support from the government , Manchester University 's Institute of Science and Technology has turned successfully to industry for support .
2 By banking the model and using back cyclic , the model can be turned rather like a fixed-wing model .
3 go down it 's it 's first left once you 've turned right at
4 Above : This car was bound for Squires Gate on 18 June 1955 , when the car suddenly turned right into Station Road , the points having been left open by the previous Marton car .
5 I 'd just turned right off the B1 150 at Fairstead when I nearly crashed into the back of this unlit car skewed across the road .
6 I had now turned right across the width of the mill where another staircase led up to the top floor .
7 To eliminate any chance of the lathe being turned on during routing the router is plugged into the socket which the lathe normally uses .
8 This output is in turn fed to a monostable made up from NAND gates IC4c , IC4d which is turned on for a period of a few milliseconds determined by the values of resistor R17 and capacitor C4 .
9 In the illustration the trial phase is turned on for fixed times and the rate of current rise , and corresponding rotor position , is deduced from the current level attained at the end of the trial .
10 Sara waited , on guard against the charm which she felt was being turned on for her .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Turned on to tap !
14 Neither of them spoke as Dalgliesh negotiated the track and finally turned on to the higher road .
15 But even as the mainstream has turned on to S&M images , those involved in the scene have been subject to increased harassment from the authorities .
16 He had a moped hidden in some bushes not far away and now he 's turned on to the track going up the mountain .
17 Newman drove along the narrow road he 'd turned on to off the B4027 at no more than thirty miles an hour .
18 He adds that only two computer companies so far have sent manufacturing groups out to see what Crec is doing — IBM Corp , and ICL Plc , which has really turned on to ergonomics and the environment since it bought Nokia Data AB .
19 In TV , the cost is based on TV Ratings ( TVRs ) , which are the percentage of households in which the TV is turned on to ITV at the time the ad is run ; in press , the cost is per thousand readers ( or , occasionally , circulation ) of the given publication ; in cinema , it is based on audience sizes ; in posters , on people passing the poster and , therefore , able to see it .
20 He had turned on to his back and was sculling slowly with his forearms , face-up to the evening sky , the chill spreading in his limbs , spreading up under his ribcage , spreading behind his eyes .
21 The critical questions have to be turned on to the discipline and relevant examples furnished from within the discipline .
22 Strobe lights are turned on to full effect for ‘ Bring It On Down ’ , which comes complete with a sample of Donna Summer 's old disco smash ‘ I Feel Love ’ , incongruous amidst the white English chaos — albeit a very controlled and theatrical type of chaos .
23 The boy had turned on to his side , the fingers of one hand lightly touching his neck .
24 Along the riverside , hay would have been cropped several times through the summer , and then , at the end of the summer , the animals who had been on the fallow would be turned on to both the meadowland and the stubble of the arable before coming into the paddocks by the village over the winter , to be stall-fed on the hay cut from the meadow .
25 He had turned on to his stomach , flung his right arm over her — to make sure she did n't escape , Isabel assumed indignantly — and fallen instantly asleep .
26 They had turned on to a side-road now .
27 The barbecue is hot and ready , and the water has been turned on to heat for their showers .
28 Eight minutes later it was 2–0 when Des Aitcheson , scoring from close range after Neil Fullerton 's near post flick , had been brilliantly turned on to a post by the visiting goalkeeper .
29 I 'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who 'd been drinking in the pub .
30 Strobe lights are turned on to full effect for ‘ Bring It On Down ’ , which comes complete with a sample of Donna Summer 's old disco smash ‘ I Feel Love ’ , incongruous amidst the white English chaos — albeit a very controlled and theatrical type of chaos .
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