Example sentences of "turn up 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 | Sheldukher considered turning up the voltage on the Cell again . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | BARLASTON chef Mark Williamson is turning up the heat on his marathon training programme . |
| 5 | Colour seeped into the scene like turning up the control on TV . |
| 6 | Constantly turning up the pressure on suppliers to do even better makes doing business with carmakers tough ( see box ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She ignored him , and turned up the sound on the telly . |
| 9 | When Jaq turned up the gain on his sensor , static flooded it . |
| 10 | all over town , turns up the scent on the air . |