Example sentences of "turn [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To reduce this the hearing aid wearer will turn down the volume of his aid , and would therefore lose the amplification he had gained from the Audio Telescope . |
| 2 | ‘ There was a lot to do with telephones , ’ says Ian , ‘ like you could turn down the stereo as you picked up the phone ! ’ |
| 3 | He would then turn down the fell and begin to race , faster as it grew steeper , more furiously as the half-ton of slate threatened to catch him up and ( as happened regularly ) crush against him , until , blown with exhaustion , he reached the unloading bays at the foot of the fell . |
| 4 | You ca n't usually " turn off " the picture in the same way you can turn down the sound but there are various ways you can organise things so that the class is presented with the soundtrack only : |
| 5 | I 'll turn down the heat when I get back . " |
| 6 | Er it 's no good saying you 'll turn down the central heating and you 'll only take one holiday instead of two , that 's not really the purpose of retirement , and I think you 've got to be objective about what you 're doing with this . |
| 7 | Lizzie would put everything away ; she would turn down the bedclothes at a neat angle and put in the hot-water bottle as late as possible . |
| 8 | Hilda did not turn down the gas . |
| 9 | No , in the end we just could n't turn down the money . |
| 10 | Never mind what they say about not working with children and animals … why turn down the chance to see Scuba and Scubette , the performing otters , make their small screen debut ? |
| 11 | Council leader Michael Carr said : ‘ We can not turn down the opportunity of extra resources for areas of particular need . |
| 12 | Does he not know that people will actually die , old folk who will turn down the heat without telling anyone ? |
| 13 | And you could almost imagine Boaz hoping against hope that the other kinsman would turn down the offer and so he delighted when that happened . |
| 14 | Can you turn over the page again now , I want you to direct your attention to paragraph four point six of this report , which reads The boundary proposed for the conservation area is limited to that part of the settlement which retains its village character . |
| 15 | " I ca n't turn over The Times so that the pages lie flat , I ca n't fold up a map in the right creases , I ca n't draw corks , I ca n't drive in nails straight , I ca n't go into a bar and order a drink without wondering what everyone 's thinking about it , and I ca n't strike matches towards myself . |
| 16 | The reader may " " Turn over the leef and chese another tale " " ( I : 3177 ) constructively as well as evasively . |
| 17 | ‘ Now I 'll go back and tell that silly little receptionist what a silly little toad he is too and if he does n't turn over the keys to the apartment that I booked and paid a deposit on I 'll scream all the way to his boss . ’ |
| 18 | and you can turn over one way or you can turn over the other way . |
| 19 | We could turn up the movie but it does n't help . |
| 20 | If there was anything like a Foreign Legion story , or something like Hitchcock 's Lifeboat , when the characters had to ration out the water , you 'd slowly turn up the heat . |
| 21 | If these gentle whispers are not heard , your Higher Self might turn up the volume a little . |
| 22 | ‘ Liverpool are lucky enough to have the best fans in the world and I know they 'll turn up the volume and strike fear into Spartak . |
| 23 | Shall I turn up the light ? " |
| 24 | Thought I still thought , when that was done , it might be worthwhile to sniff around here and there for any leads worth following that might turn up the stolen phetam . |
| 25 | ‘ Cinderella 's coach did n't turn up the second time around ? ’ |
| 26 | And for those who were n't … well , no doubt Luke Hunter would turn up the charm and devise some plausible enough explanation . |
| 27 | A FLURRY of legal proceedings will this week turn up the heat in the already simmering Timex dispute in Dundee . |
| 28 | Let's fli turn up the sound then we can No you 've done that backwards , it 's seventeen not seventy one . |
| 29 | see he was not as pretty good as the other , I would n't like to say whether he could really turn up the application |
| 30 | When the dark-blues did turn up the fun started but as expected the Cambridge crew were carrying far more weight . |