Example sentences of "turn [adv prt] the [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | US AGENTS have turned up the pressure on the besieged Texas cult by using glaring floodlights on the compound and cutting off electricity , and those inside are trying to communicate with banners and Morse code . |
| 2 | NEALE Doughty was left with egg on his face after turning down the ride on Haydock stalwart Twin Oaks in favour of Pat 's Jester yesterday . |
| 3 | The room was hot when he entered , and he turned down the thermostat on the wall . |
| 4 | That inquiry turned down the application on the grounds that the mink farmers could not guarantee that mink would not escape . |
| 5 | The Civic Society was naturally very pleased t that we the council turned down the application on the National Power site . |
| 6 | Those working with severely-handicapped youngsters will celebrate as landmarks advances that are barely perceptible to the uninitiated : ‘ Sally turned over the page on her own today ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ All what moving about the country ? ’ asked Cliff , largely to avert further discussion of sprouts and red cabbage , which he could see was imminent from the suspicious manner in which his mother was turning over the vegetables on her heaped plate . |
| 8 | Sheldukher considered turning up the voltage on the Cell again . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | BARLASTON chef Mark Williamson is turning up the heat on his marathon training programme . |
| 11 | Colour seeped into the scene like turning up the control on TV . |
| 12 | Constantly turning up the pressure on suppliers to do even better makes doing business with carmakers tough ( see box ) . |
| 13 | My father turned up the ring on the cooker under the soup-pan , looking beneath the lid into the warming mixture and then turning back to look at me . |
| 14 | She ignored him , and turned up the sound on the telly . |
| 15 | When Jaq turned up the gain on his sensor , static flooded it . |
| 16 | A car dealer turned back the mileometer on a car and then put up a notice that the mileage " may not be correct " . |
| 17 | all over town , turns up the scent on the air . |
| 18 | In another sexual adventure , Is My Palm Read ? , a palm-reader turns out the lights on her so that he can leer through her see-through skirt and blouse . |
| 19 | Turn in the sides on the creaselines , over the ends of the stiffening . |
| 20 | Then say to the audience ‘ What I would like you to do as soon as I leave the room is to turn over the card on the top of this pile and look at it . ’ |
| 21 | Turn off the lights on the tank ( which reduces the stress on the fish ) and float them in their bag in the aquarium for twenty minutes to help equalise the temperatures . |
| 22 | But it is too late to turn back the clock on the bank 's international expansion . |
| 23 | But with this , as with council-house building , no real attempt was made to turn back the clock on processes that were ultimately totally to transform the character of Britain 's housing market . |
| 24 | This year , with the Democrats poised to win the state , the national leadership is looking to see whether the same tactics can be used to turn back the tide on the Republicans nationwide . |