Example sentences of "switch on [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So John Broome is switching on to the green , green grass of home . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Right switch on round the back at the left |
| 4 | The tutor 's personal machine switched on to the cube . |
| 5 | Is it switched on at the moment ? |
| 6 | Many people had switched on after the announcement that Welles 's Mercury Theatre was doing a play . |
| 7 | As when the light is switched on behind the gauze |
| 8 | Monday morning : it was nearly ten o'clock but so grey and overcast that the light was switched on in the kitchen in Marie 's house . |
| 9 | When customers complained , they were blithely informed that while Ma Rainey sang , an electric light had been switched on in the studio . |
| 10 | But then , as night fell and the lights were switched on in the carriage , illuminating the sepia photographs of Morecambe Bay at dawn and donkeys trotting Blackpool sands , he felt his privacy was being invaded and had stopped making those conciliatory gestures . |
| 11 | There was no sound of a light 's being switched on in the sitting room , but we might not have been able to hear it . |