Example sentences of "turn up the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And there is a good account of the infamous Nixon/Kennedy TV debate when Kennedy 's aide even turned up the heat in Nixon 's dressing-room to make him sweat more .
2 My horse went down a couple of times when we were riding along a shallow river The hooves must 've turned up the mud at the bottom and I 'm sorry but no amount of expert preparation can help you keep cool when a 500lb horse goes down on you .
3 However , I said I would try so I put on my best uniform , nicely pressed , and as I paraded in front of him I said I had turned up the hem of my skirt and did he think it was too short ?
4 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 .
5 The water really is n't that hot , usually , but my other one was fiddling with the boiler earlier — he must have turned up the thermostat .
6 She did everything loudly : loud sneeze , loud blowing of the nose , loud banging of doors when she was in a temper ; she would march ( she always marched ) into the kitchen , clattering all the saucepan lids to see what was for supper , saying ‘ brrr ’ and turning up the heater , turning on the telly , tapping her foot to the music .
7 Sheldukher considered turning up the voltage on the Cell again .
8 Turning up the charm level at this point is as effective as spraying DDT in her eye .
9 at night Dassia is a bustling sort of place with pubs and bars on the main strip , just back from the beach turning on the light , turning up the music and really rocking away .
10 Turning up the music to drown the noise ; old Sixties hits playing as he beats Christopher with his fists , and with the crowbar , which he liked to keep at Christopher 's flat , dangling from a nail in a wall .
11 After a while she sat up and slowly began to undress to her camisole and her waist petticoat ; then , turning up the gas that had been on a low jet , she went across the room to the wash-hand stand and poured water from the jug into the basin .
12 Standing at the bottom of the stairs , turning up the gas , revealing her in a pool of light .
13 ‘ I do n't like your kinda music , ’ he drawls , turning up The Beach Boys on the car radio .
14 Turning up the collar of his Burberry against the chill morning air , he climbed up the slope to the rim of the hollow and stood looking down at the car .
15 She swallowed convulsively , and tightened the belt of her Burberry , turning up the collar as if she was preparing to weather a blizzard before closing numb fingers round the hand-grip of her bag .
16 These can be made even more legible for visually handicapped pupils by turning up the print contrast setting to ‘ dark ’ .
17 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 .
18 BARLASTON chef Mark Williamson is turning up the heat on his marathon training programme .
19 Some basses are a little better than others , but the truth is that by turning up the line level you can make it sound like anything you want .
20 Colour seeped into the scene like turning up the control on TV .
21 Constantly turning up the pressure on suppliers to do even better makes doing business with carmakers tough ( see box ) .
22 Then , turning up the hem some way , she now fingered her petticoats .
23 Er no we had some larger other income erm I 'm turning up the detail as we speak .
24 It is then decoded and made to change channels , turning up the volume , alter the brightness , mute the sound , or whatever other job is required .
25 Instead of choosing to ride through the woodland paths which she loved so much , Tamar turned up the village street , intent on keeping to the roads .
26 A try from Richard Eyres put the visitors further in front before Sheffield turned up the pace .
27 He turned up the heater .
28 Having regained his edge Dunlop turned up the wick again , and went on to win by four seconds from Perugini with Gianluigi Scalvini third .
29 Having regained his edge Dunlop turned up the wick again , and went on to win by four seconds from Perugini with Gianluigi Scalvini third .
30 Agnes hurried into the back shop , turned up the gas jet , quickly transferred two dozen sugar mice to one fancy box and six chocolate cats to another ; and when she returned with them into the shop they both exclaimed , and it was the young woman who said , ‘ What pretty boxes !
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