Example sentences of "turned on [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To avoid their notice , and give them time to get clear of the folded valley before he ventured it , he turned on a contour course towards Ruthyn , and kept in the fringes of the forest , watching the glint of steel come and go on the track lower down the slope , drawing steadily nearer to him , but some half-mile below . |
| 2 | He turned on a star performance to come past Peter Morgan , Andy Skues , Richard Whiteside and in the final James Gronland . |
| 3 | My mother pinpoints the downfall of western civilisation as the moment when a teenager turned on a transistor radio during a screening of The Robe . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I sat up and turned on the bedside light to see the shadows in the room . |
| 6 | 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 . |