Example sentences of "to switch on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quicker heat escapes from your hot water tank , the more often you will need to switch on the water heating to warm it up . |
| 2 | ‘ You do n't have to switch on the computer , load the program and recall a file from disc — you just switch on and it 's there , ’ Lyndon-James says . |
| 3 | It took her a minute to unlock the car and then she sat shaking behind the wheel , waiting until her hands were steady enough to switch on the ignition . |
| 4 | She rose to draw the curtains and to switch on the lamp . |
| 5 | Adults learning to use computers are frequently taught very basic principles ( like how to switch on the machine and " boot " a disc ) and then encouraged to simply play with it for a while . |
| 6 | Alison found the key and opened the door , reaching inside to switch on the hall light . |
| 7 | It was easy enough to get the front door open one-handed , not so easy to switch on the hall light with no hands at all . |
| 8 | The Olympic 100 metres champion has signed a new six-figure deal to head Lucozade 's TV campaigns and has been asked to do everything from race a greyhound to switch on the Oxford Street Christmas lights . |
| 9 | The subject known , broadly , as Science , was at first her favourite , because she liked playing with Bunsen burners : at home she was not allowed even to switch on the gas fire . |
| 10 | Each year a celebrity is chosen to switch on the Illuminations in Talbot Square , followed for many years by a tour of the Lights by tram . |
| 11 | But you chose to switch on the news that day , or to hear it from a friend ; and you chose to have certain thoughts in response to that news . |
| 12 | I only have to switch on the news to hear things a whole lot crazier than that . ’ |
| 13 | if it requires a recall of emotion , it is often sufficient merely to switch on the emotion rather than elicit it ( as when you trip over the cat ! ) . |
| 14 | While waiting for her passengers as they inspected isolated gun-sites on windswept clifftops and rocky promontories , Liza was urged by her passengers to switch on the car engine to keep herself warm , however much she knew this procedure to be frowned upon by her direct superiors at Command Headquarters . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , this is not to be , since it transpires that the gentleman from British Rail was nothing short of a duplicitous cad ; there are no small compartments , just open-plan carriages too large to be defended by even the most outrageous behaviour , so I slump sullenly into a corner , wallowing in layers of dust and grime that would easily qualify for a Quentin Crisp kitemark , waiting for the guard to switch on the heat and the lights , preparatory to the departure of the Sir John . |
| 16 | Frances moved over positively to switch on the radio . |
| 17 | Just in time , she remembered to switch on the radio for the eight-thirty news on LBC . |
| 18 | For example , substance P can be used to control not its own synthesis but some other pathway , just as a thermostat could be used to switch on the television instead of the boiler . |
| 19 | When she accepted her first solo public duty , to switch on the Christmas lights at Regent Street in London 's West End , she was paralyzed with nerves . |
| 20 | When he was invited to switch on the Christmas lights in Settle , he needed a police escort because of a bomb threat believed to be from workers at a local quarry . |
| 21 | He dropped the padlock on to the floor then pushed the heavy door open and reached inside to switch on the light . |
| 22 | The moon peering in helped her to see and there was no need to switch on the light . |
| 23 | He closed the door and reached out to switch on the light , making her blink in the sudden flood of brilliant light . |
| 24 | She reached out to switch on the bedhead light and realised that the blackness of night had been replaced by grey gloom . |