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Example sentences of "turned [prep] the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	She removed it with her fingers , then she went and turned off the kitchen light and sat slowly swinging .
2	Quickly he reached out and turned off the night lock .
3	I turned off the plug bit .
4	He threw down the knife , turned off the gas ring and stamped down the hall .
5	Irritably — she really wanted that cup of tea ; she was growing as bad as the British — McAllister turned off the gas ring , blew out the match , and walked to the front door , grumbling to herself , Hold your horses , I 'm coming , I 'm coming , when another urgent series of knocks sounded .
6	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 .
7	He approached the Cheetah and spoke to its pilot , who was still in his seat and conscious ; the instructor turned off the master switch and instructed the pilot to turn off the fuel cock .
8	Harry turned off the car engine and wound down the window .
9	Research turned towards the policy process itself , to the people who took the decisions and to the local political institutions in which they operated .
10	First , in May , 1943 , as the tide of war turned against the U-boat wolf packs , a smaller group of British heroes struck deep into German territory .
11	I ran , turned up the side road .
12	As Sergei went off to call his old friends , I turned into the lounge area where tea was being served , and found Surkov and Masha there .
13	He drove down the main street of Habane , the capital of Zimbala , and turned into the basement carpark where he had arranged to meet his informant .
14	I gave him a final wave just before we turned into the approach road leading to the village .
15	Tony made a brief call to the harbour authorities , we turned into the north wind and I selected carb air to cold while he raised the water rudders and pumped down take-off flap .
16	Dusk was just falling as they turned into the parking area down by the river .
17	So , ‘ Goodbye , ’ she smiled , and turned into the hotel entrance .
18	erm I think it 's also true to say that if they came on Sunday and turned into the church hall for coffee and tea , they can smoke in there .
19	The music came from next door and when he left the bathroom and turned into the sitting room he felt dizzy .
20	Another man , again in an official car , was a bit late spotting the photographer and , as he turned into the car park , made a halfhearted attempt to pull on his seat belt .
21	They had reached the auberge ; Melissa turned into the car park and switched off the engine .
22	When he turned into the car park of an attractive roadside pub Leonora went off to ring her sister while Penry gave their orders .
23	They turned into the dining room , and gasped at the long row of glowing candles which stretched down the table to the further limits of vision .
24	Shepherd turned from the wall cabinet , holding the decanter up .
25	Luke turned in the kitchen doorway and said suddenly , ‘ Mum , you OK ? ’
26	Seven jobs have gone at the Open Software Foundation as a result of a realignment which sees the consortium effectively become a two-headed beast — one turned on the operating system , the other with eyes on interoperability technologies , which includes everything else .
27	I sat up and turned on the bedside light to see the shadows in the room .
28	The 21-year-old was spending her first night at Sussex University , near Brighton , when she was woken at about 4am by a man who turned on the bedroom light , held a knife to her throat and raped her , before escaping through the open window by which he had entered .
29	Very thoughtfully , she turned to the telephone directory and looked up the name .
30	In desperation she picked up the paper and turned to the TV guide , but there was nothing scheduled for the early-evening spot apart from game shows .