Example sentences of "turned off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They turned off the main road and caught sight of the cottage . |
| 2 | The woman , now 20 , said she began to feel ‘ wary ’ when the officer turned off the main road to her home , saying he knew a short-cut . |
| 3 | The jeep reached the River Orne and we turned off the road on to a narrow path just wide enough for the jeep . |
| 4 | I turned off the road when I drew level with the Brigadier and his Officers , and placed myself on the right of Mills Roberts as the Brigade swept past to the tune Highland Laddie . |
| 5 | He nodded to Wexford and then he turned off the television . |
| 6 | In order to escape , the Major turned off the road and kicked his horse on over Wenlock Edge . |
| 7 | How Brazil 's new president turned off the money |
| 8 | I got into the car and turned off the headlamps . |
| 9 | His Dad turned off the road they were in , into one lined with trees . |
| 10 | He put the biscuits and carton down on the table and turned off the light . |
| 11 | Philip turned off the light . |
| 12 | Gently nosing the car down the hill into the village , he turned off the road into the gravelled drive which led to the eighteenth-century stone barn . |
| 13 | At the same moment , at the top of the stairs , Doyle turned off the music . |
| 14 | She asked him why he could not leave her alone , in view of what the other man had already done to her , but he turned off the lights and told her to undress . |
| 15 | Maggie turned off the tap as there was no point in letting it continue to run . |
| 16 | There was much hilarity when I dived into my bag and turned off the offending breast pump . |
| 17 | Yet , as we turned off the Buxton Road into Ashford-in-the-Water , we found ourselves back on schedule and completely relaxed . |
| 18 | Murray splashed round the perimeter of the enclosure and turned off the shower . |
| 19 | Then he went back to the bathroom and turned off the taps . |
| 20 | Buckmaster asked as Morgan turned off the Okehampton road and drove through the snow towards Moretonhampstead . |
| 21 | He answered Buckmaster 's question as he turned off the road between lodge gates and proceeded down the long drive across open parkland . |
| 22 | He turned off the main light switch and put on the bedside lamp , and against the lamp he propped an old brown photograph . |
| 23 | When they turned off the main road Uncle George had to drive at little more than walking pace , for he could n't see where the lane ended and the ditches at the sides began , for snow cloaked everything . |
| 24 | Still , it was n't these fine distinctions that were uppermost in my mind that Friday evening in April when I turned off the Banbury Road into the quiet , tree-lined avenue where the Parsons lived , but the rather more obvious contrast , the gaping abyss between these genteel surroundings and the ones in which I myself was then living . |
| 25 | Then he 'd got some blankets out of the chests under the bunks at the end of the boat , turned off the torch he 'd found in another cupboard , stretched himself out and gone to sleep . |
| 26 | She turned off the gas fire — must save the Calor gas ! — and the lights and followed him out onto the landing , locking the door behind her . |
| 27 | When they were almost home Edward pulled into a farm gateway and turned off the engine . |
| 28 | She remembered having seem a small café down one of the streets that surrounded the station and turned off the main road to find it . |
| 29 | I removed as much as I could with my fingers , turned off the lights , added more plants and threw in one of those Nitrasafe bags . |
| 30 | Upon reaching the bridge , he turned off the road and led the way through the trees , dismounting in a little clearing by the fast flowing water . |