Example sentences of "turning up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also the misconception that the speed with which a room is heated to a set temperature increases by turning up a room or radiator thermostat . |
| 2 | They are not generally common fossils , but there is always a chance of turning up a skeleton from the coal deposits , or finding a fossil frog ( see Fig. 51 ) in the Mesozoic . |
| 3 | However , if the adventurers make a thorough search here , they have a 50% chance each for turning up a sealed vial with 2D4+1 doses of Trollbane , and another with D4+1 doses of Graveroot . |
| 4 | So you pick up the pieces and start turning up a little here and a little — but you get the idea . |
| 5 | Do you often experience a surge of interest in a particular period of history after turning up a find that appears to connect with those years ? |
| 6 | Ralph Meeker snapped an old man 's priceless Caruso record in half in Kiss Me Deadly , Richard Conte tortured Cornel Wilde by turning up a hearing aid and shouting into it in The Big Combo , Ingrid Bergman drank the poisoned Brazilian coffee in Notorious , Charles Laughton plunged down a lift shaft in The Big Clock , Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth shot it out in a hall of mirrors in Lady from Shanghai , Edmond O'Brien lurched into a police station to report his own murder in D.O.A. , Tony Curtis was brutally beaten by a corrupt cop in Sweet Smell of Success , Laurence Harvey jumped in the lake in The Manchurian Candidate . |
| 7 | Any more than I give more than an irritated passing thought to turning up a heater when the temperature drops . |
| 8 | The Führer was no longer present among his people ; he played the part increasingly of a deus ex machina , turning up every now and then in Berlin or Munich , but mostly a distant war-lord conducting military affairs in faraway parts but scarcely having any real further contact with the German people themselves . |
| 9 | For burying , a long-boarded general-purpose or lea plough does the cleanest job , turning up an unbroken , shiny furrow . |
| 10 | Cheaper alternatives to turning up the central heating are to do a brief bout of gentle exercise , which increases body heat from the inside , or to wrap up well , which reduces loss to the outside . |
| 11 | She did everything loudly : loud sneeze , loud blowing of the nose , loud banging of doors when she was in a temper ; she would march ( she always marched ) into the kitchen , clattering all the saucepan lids to see what was for supper , saying ‘ brrr ’ and turning up the heater , turning on the telly , tapping her foot to the music . |
| 12 | You are also turning up the relics of perennial weeds that can be difficult to eliminate later . |
| 13 | at night Dassia is a bustling sort of place with pubs and bars on the main strip , just back from the beach turning on the light , turning up the music and really rocking away . |
| 14 | After a while she sat up and slowly began to undress to her camisole and her waist petticoat ; then , turning up the gas that had been on a low jet , she went across the room to the wash-hand stand and poured water from the jug into the basin . |
| 15 | Then , turning up the hem some way , she now fingered her petticoats . |
| 16 | Turning up the charm level at this point is as effective as spraying DDT in her eye . |
| 17 | It is then decoded and made to change channels , turning up the volume , alter the brightness , mute the sound , or whatever other job is required . |
| 18 | Some basses are a little better than others , but the truth is that by turning up the line level you can make it sound like anything you want . |
| 19 | These can be made even more legible for visually handicapped pupils by turning up the print contrast setting to ‘ dark ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't like your kinda music , ’ he drawls , turning up The Beach Boys on the car radio . |
| 21 | Turning up the heat on Sun Microsystems Inc and IBM , Hewlett-Packard Co is starting worldwide deliveries of another Snake RISC workstation in June , adding a colour model of the PA-RISC HP 9000/705 to its pit . |
| 22 | Without turning up the light Katherine crossed to stand beside the window , leaving Michael Lee to close the door and move gingerly into the centre of the room . |
| 23 | Turning up the music to drown the noise ; old Sixties hits playing as he beats Christopher with his fists , and with the crowbar , which he liked to keep at Christopher 's flat , dangling from a nail in a wall . |
| 24 | Standing at the bottom of the stairs , turning up the gas , revealing her in a pool of light . |
| 25 | Sheldukher considered turning up the voltage on the Cell again . |
| 26 | Turning up the collar of his Burberry against the chill morning air , he climbed up the slope to the rim of the hollow and stood looking down at the car . |
| 27 | Mark the hemline on the curtain fabric by turning up the 15cm ( 6in ) hem allowance to the wrong side , and press . |
| 28 | Colour seeped into the scene like turning up the control on TV . |
| 29 | And he was in the jacuzzi with her , turning up the dials until the water bubbled furiously around them . |
| 30 | BARLASTON chef Mark Williamson is turning up the heat on his marathon training programme . |