Example sentences of "switching [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Squirrel 's case , 30 seconds after switching on the booster you push Start . |
| 2 | ‘ Switching on the computer , ’ he said firmly . |
| 3 | Switching on the overdrive channel , however , gave immediate access to the right stuff . |
| 4 | This has been graphically described as ‘ switching on the autopilot ’ ( Drasdo , 1979 ) . |
| 5 | Before switching on the engine he studied his maps . |
| 6 | Guards should properly refer to ‘ switching on the darks ’ , since what they call lights seem expressly designed to suck all traces of illumination out of the carriage , casting shadows into every corner . |
| 7 | Morton caught Edward 's involuntary eye-movements , but instead of pouncing , instead of switching on the bluster , he changed gear . |
| 8 | Well they might be a friendly , oh I do n't really know but er he 's so busy you see and he 's busy all kinds of day and night , now then , we asked him a while ago to be more careful when he was switching on the freezer units at night because they were waking people up , we asked him er a while ago if he 'd be more careful learning up at six o'clock in the morning because the chain and that we could n't sleep in the morning like , and all disturbing us all like that |
| 9 | Thacker was not overjoyed to see them , but he played along , switching on the charm . |
| 10 | The only recorded royal tram ride in the first hundred years of Blackpool tramways occurred on 21 October 1937 , when HRH The Duke of Kent ( the present Duke 's father ) visited Blackpool to open Victoria Hospital , the lifeboat house and Princess Way , culminating in him switching on the Illuminations . |
| 11 | defiance of house rules ( e.g. breaking rules about playing with matches , about not switching on the TV before the children 's programmes begin , about sitting at the table until the meal is finished , or about not taking food out of the fridge without permission ) ; |
| 12 | ‘ Embarrassment does not come into it , ’ he rasped , switching on the kettle and turning to glare at her . |
| 13 | This gave him the idea of developing a method of switching on the fountain automatically , every time the pond was approached by a predator : easily achieved by adapting a passive infra-red detector . |
| 14 | Secondly , by temporarily switching on the auto-assessment of DCs facility for each package and the packages referencing it . |
| 15 | Feeling suddenly full of energy , she got up , and , switching on the immersion heater so that she could have a bath later , she decided to give the cottage a good clean . |
| 16 | Switching on the bedside light , I got out of bed and fumbled into my bathrobe . |
| 17 | Such a process may be comparable to the experience one has when switching on the radio in the middle of a discussion programme and trying to understand the discussion through a partial reconstruction of what must have been said already , who the participants must be , and so on . |
| 18 | We hung up and I lit a cigarette before switching on the radio . |
| 19 | She plugged and unplugged that cross-wired old switchboard with the ease of someone switching on the radio . |
| 20 | Cos we came in and Chrissy , instead of switching on the children 's programmes put his computer on so we did n't see it . |
| 21 | Switching on the torch he swung round in time to see in its thin beam a blast of hot , dust-laden smoke belch past the opening of the short passageway and spill in towards him . |
| 22 | Did they follow him on his pub-crawl , clinically waiting until he became suitably juiced before switching on the camera ? |
| 23 | Care must be taken to remove the tommy bar from the collet before switching on the motor — it is all too easy to forget , and the result is a worn motor . |
| 24 | Switching on the light , she saw that he was fine . |
| 25 | Then she had to imagine switching on the light in that cupboard under the stairs and taking a couple of steps forward so that she was just inside — but with the door open to the hall and with the knowledge that she only had to take a single large step back to be out there again . |
| 26 | After switching on the light he sat down behind his solid oak desk … made , on his orders , from Bittsevsky oak … , opened his leather-bound diary and scanned the day 's agenda . |
| 27 | He showed them into the lounge and drew the threadbare curtains before switching on the light . |
| 28 | There was a bedroom to their left , at the front of the house , and Carson pushed open the opposite door and led the way through into the sitting-room , switching on the light as he went . |
| 29 | Switching on the television set to watch a modern Boat Race , I recall the heated passions aroused among small boys in the early 1930s as we waited to learn whether we had picked the right shade of blue . |
| 30 | Well I have n't said , her , heard anybody say anything about the grand old tradition of switching on the television set , and I 've a horrible feeling that er that th that the one day in the year when people want to get together with their families probably means switching off the television set . |