Example sentences of "switched [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breakfast television , and the expanding number of computer screens switched on during working hours , could make work difficult for Mainsborne . |
| 2 | Erm just something that came into my head e er cos the alarm switched on with your programme and it was a gentleman talking about the different taxes and what have you |
| 3 | As the new presenter , Nicholas Witchell is chiefly celebrated for sitting on a lesbian during a news bulletin , you switched on at dawn with some cynicism . |
| 4 | The network switched on at Courtaulds Fibres , Mobile , in February . |
| 5 | Zuwaya heard on the BBC Arabic Service that President Sadat had made a speech about Libya : they switched on to Radio Cairo in the evening to listen to it . |
| 6 | Late on Friday evening and we switched on to , to a , , and he was the only one I really heard . |
| 7 | Everything cooks very slowly in a slo-cooker because the heating element is extremely gentle and costs no more to use than leaving a light bulb switched on for a day ( a few pence ) . |
| 8 | If you do not buy one of these make sure that you always leave some lights switched on inside the house — even if you are going out at eight o'clock in the morning and will not be back until midnight . |
| 9 | I had been aware , intellectually , that the background level of irradiation is really quite high ( as I write the clicking of a geiger counter left switched on in an adjacent room reminds me ) but it took the Phywe cloud chamber to make me realise that irradiation is not a separate thing but truly a part of life . |
| 10 | Only one copper wire is needed to carry the current required for any bulb switched on in this way so there is a saving in terms of cost and weight . |
| 11 | They reckon that dubbing French dialogue on to the kids ' favourite soaps will keep them switched on in class . |
| 12 | And now , as they got back into the car , both men sat in silence as they watched the light switched on in the front bedroom — and then the curtains being drawn across . |
| 13 | A presenter who gabbled the Hampshire score switched over to John Arlott at Bournemouth for an update . |
| 14 | On the third visit I switched over to the large search coil and within fifteen minutes was holding numerous buttons , buckles , seals , some copper coins and — best of all — a Queen Anne gold guinea . |
| 15 | However , we had not caught a double , so unbeknown to Rick I wound in my right hand rod which had not done much on the meat and switched over to a boilie . |
| 16 | In Spain Courtaulds Fibres , Barcelona , switched over to electronic mail two years ago , using a software package called DaVinci , which can easily link up with cc:Mail . |
| 17 | Mr E , however , countered each example with either ‘ it wo n't work with Dave ’ or ‘ I 've tried all this ’ , and switched off at any good idea offered , unable to listen , making himself , like Dave , the only one in the group so different and obstructive . |
| 18 | I told myself I was waiting out there for the signals to let me know David and Leon had gone to bed , lights switched off at their bedroom windows , at least some movement of the curtains . |
| 19 | And they like the erm the water , excuse me ! they like the water drained out the site , you know , they like it sort of all the water switched off on , on each van |
| 20 | They had the car lights switched off for a while . |
| 21 | The noise in the kitchen switched off as the small second she stood there half-naked seemed to lengthen into years . |
| 22 | Those making this journey should ensure that the stopcock is closed and all electrical appliances switched off before departure . |
| 23 | He switched off from the incident , lay back and analysed the day 's events . |
| 24 | The most powerful impact of TV 's hidden curriculum is simply that of keeping people switched off from life outside the living-room . |
| 25 | She caught only the last few words : ‘ the sooner this dangerous person is apprehended the better ’ , and switched off in frustration . |
| 26 | McGiven said : ‘ It 's as if subconsciously we switched off after the Wimbledon game and were caught off guard . |
| 27 | With the power amp switched up in the test rack , floors shook dutifully , furniture shifted , ice caps melted and ocean levels rose … |
| 28 | ‘ A cottage has been cleaned and the heating switched back on , ’ an estate worker said . |
| 29 | Erm so it went to seven months and then you could see us switch back on time and we switched back on in about November . |
| 30 | Then in February , attention switched back to Berlin . |