Example sentences of "switches on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fred opens a can of beer , switches on the TV , groans as he slumps over the sofa and looks at the paint peeling off the ceiling . |
| 2 | But as soon as the animal sits down , a photoelectric cell switches on the air stream , so stopping the pig from getting cold . |
| 3 | Lucker switches on the cabin light and lights a cigarette . |
| 4 | Then we would visualise an alarm clock with carrots for fingers and imagine that when the alarm goes off it switches on the television set . |
| 5 | This month Liz turns her attention to the pattern variation switches on the Silver Reed electronic machines . |
| 6 | And in this issue , I review yet another anti-heron gizmo which switches on the fountain when the heron alights . |
| 7 | ‘ You plug it in when you go away and it switches on the light for you at the same time every evening , and switches it off too . |
| 8 | She switches on the light . |
| 9 | When she pushes it open , and switches on the light , she finds the breeze blowing through broken windows . |
| 10 | He describes himself as a ‘ TV animal ’ who switches on the set at home as soon as he walks through the door . |
| 11 | Had the management sided with the latter , it would have had to stop the operators from ‘ tampering ’ with the machine controls — perhaps by withholding a key that switches on the editing equipment . |
| 12 | The student switches on the tape recorder just long enough to record his utterance , then passes the microphone to another learner to continue the conversation . |
| 13 | The equipment can be switched on and off by two switches on the front of the unit , and a red light tells you the power is on . |
| 14 | Once the school librarian or teacher has mastered the simple stages of switching on the different parts of the microcomputer , e.g. to set up the BBC microcomputer , the user 1 ) Plugs in the computer , the disk drive , the monitor and the printer 2 ) Switches on the microcomputer , the disk drive , the monitor and the printer 3 ) Puts a disk into the disk drive 4 ) Types in a command on the microcomputer s/he will be able to use programs for different applications such as database creation or word processing and the applications are covered later in this book . |