Example sentences of "they turned [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They turned up the heat and the United defence started to cook . |
| 2 | In the nineteenth century , they turned around the idea that women 's place was in the home to argue that motherly values should be extended beyond it . |
| 3 | Then they turned out the lights , the great brass chandelier with its false candles , and the moon 's lemony radiance lay as still as cloths draped over the shining wood . |
| 4 | ‘ They turned out the lights , which would slow the snake down , so they could pick it up without it biting , and they shut the sliding doors behind them . ’ |
| 5 | Trusting virgins drafted into marriage never found Nature had all the answers when they turned out the light . |
| 6 | But after magistrates heard from the pig centre and from the RSPCA , they turned down the application . |
| 7 | ‘ Some Americans wanted to open up the Spurling yard , and offered big money to the Borough Council , but that useless lot — that bunch of pen-pushers — they turned down the offer in favour of the Japanese . |
| 8 | They turned down the offer of free council flat in a city where 2,000 people are on a long-term homeless list . |