Example sentences of "turn [art] [noun sg] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marie steps in front of me and rolls the sleeves up to my elbows and then turns the collar up . |
| 2 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereign was king of coins . |
| 3 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereign was king of coins . |
| 4 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereigns were king coins . |
| 5 | ( Crawling to bottom of bed , Peg turns the machine round to him . ) |
| 6 | This automatically switches the machine on when it hears a message coming through , recognises the medium being used , and then turns the machine off after the message has been recorded . |
| 7 | He turns the voice off , a remedy still available to him , but for how long ? |
| 8 | I find a box of matches , then follow the piping up the wall from the dead gas-ring until I come to the stopcock that turns the supply on . |
| 9 | It automatically turns the temperature down of the drying . |
| 10 | A digital to analogue ( D–A ) converter then turns the signal back into its original form . |
| 11 | Well if Daddy turns the telly over can watch Edd ca n't you ? |
| 12 | As the music and dialogue of the offstage production begin , a member of the " Pamela " cast turns the volume off . ] |
| 13 | If you have to leave your desk , pressing the button turns the screen off and locks the keyboard but leaves the PC running . |
| 14 | She turns the sound down . |
| 15 | Then Susan comes in , and when she has put down the tray she is carrying , she turns the light on beside his chair and draws the curtains so that the room becomes a series of pools of light , isolating each of us . |
| 16 | The first thing that heralds the approach of Autumn is that you are outside one evening , not too late , thinking you 've time to mend the fence , move the sheep or clean the goat pen and suddenly someone turns the light off ! |
| 17 | The child now turns the paper over , or covers his first attempt , if it was right , and writes it again from memory . |
| 18 | He had called for Doyle , and Doyle had turned the clock back , and come to make the arrest in person . |
| 19 | He provides the influence they needed and , together with the best centre-back combination in England , Steve Bould and Tony Adams , the Dane 's strength has turned the clock back to the season when Arsenal last won the title through defensive ability . |
| 20 | He had some memory of having promised God to give up drinking but God had n't turned the clock back so that did n't count any more . |
| 21 | So perhaps God had turned the clock back in a very God-like way . |
| 22 | A film company has turned the clock back one hundred years to recreate a bustling Victorian dock scene . |
| 23 | A farmer has turned the clock back fifty years to harvest his crop of wheat . |
| 24 | But now British Rail has turned the clock back — temporarily offering steam rides from Henley-on-Thames . |
| 25 | Has someone turned the clock back 100 years and forgotten to tell me ? |
| 26 | But a combination of tough decisions and innovative business methods has turned the organisation round . |
| 27 | It has but I 've turned the stat back up on the cylinder just made the boiler cut in again cos that 's that 's why the boilers cutting out cos it what it does once it gets up to temperature then it 'll shut itself off . |
| 28 | ‘ He 'd be irradiated if he 'd turned the bribe down and gone to the freight car . ’ |
| 29 | This speech has now completely turned the play around and has begun to lead on to the tragedy at the end of it , Brutus , the nobleman 's , death . |
| 30 | He says that they could have turned the company around . |