Example sentences of "turn [adv] " in BNC.

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1 A gust of wind throws rain against the window and shakes the frame ; it 's loud and surprising and I flinch but he just turns slowly and looks out into the darkness with what could almost be contempt before laughing and putting an arm round my shoulder and suggesting we have another drink .
2 When the output reaches 0V , the IC IC comparator switches , Q1 turns on , and the cycle repeats .
3 At the end of the day , that is what it all turns on .
4 It turns on to its side and as I cling on for dear life I hear a startled cry from Nathan .
5 I mean , wages , benefits from the welfare state — the cost of reproducing labour power , which is really what the wages for housework argument turns on , this cost is covered in a variety of ways — not adequately , that 's true and working class women are most vulnerable , but I do n't think we can say simply that housework , childcare is given free , is not paid for at all .
6 This unregulated d.c. now passes through an electronic switch S which turns on and off at a relatively high frequency ; this might well lie within the range 15kHz to 100kHz , sometimes more .
7 The tap turns on , either suddenly or slowly , and the glass fills .
8 The neat , symmetrical plot turns on just this physical likeness .
9 Felicity turns on to her stomach .
10 In the circuit of Fig. 6.14(a) , for example , linear acceleration and deceleration profiles are produced by integrating a signal which turns on when the motor is to accelerate and turns off when deceleration in required .
11 This detects any approaching heat source such as people or cars and automatically turns on , welcoming friends and deterring intruders .
12 Especially if it 's if as when it first turns on or if the f the fan heater is not blowing very much .
13 Well yes , but in those sorts of terms complementarity becomes a passkey which turns suspiciously many locks .
14 Then Pac-Man 's ‘ mouth ’ begins — a jaw that turns inward , eastward , along the northern coast of New Guinea , through New Britain , the Solomons , the Torres Islands , the New Hebrides and New Caledonia .
15 Yet the game turns inward , relying more and more on major sponsorship deals , television contracts and executive activities that seem a million miles from the ordinary man in the street .
16 WHW turns right to leave river after 500 yds ( waymark ) , turning left 300 yds later at T-junction ( waymarked ) .
17 200 yds later , by another stile , fence veers half right , path turns right here , still uphill and now away from fence and bends right a few yards later up to stile into field .
18 At the Sedgwick memorial , the main street continues ahead and a branch turns right , these rejoining at Cowgill a few miles further on ; this branch road will be described on the return journey .
19 The alternative route of return descends the rough western slope aiming for the top of the Kingsdale — Deepdale road , which soon comes into view , and there turns right .
20 When the farm road turns right , by some chicken sheds , the path goes left towards a metal gate .
21 Just before the gate the path turns right , between woodland on the left and a hedge on the right .
22 From here it turns right to follow the shore until it reaches the mouth of the River Avich .
23 Where the tracks turns right at the woods , walk ahead to the gap in the hedge where the path joins the Ridgeway ( 639 032 ) .
24 Back on the main road , it turns right at the junction in Gleann Beag , passing a complex of handsome farm buildings , and ascends a long incline where much-needed improvements have taken place .
25 From the car park in Traquair turn left and follow the narrow road up the hill for 100yds to where the main road turns right .
26 The Minchmoor Road turns right and drops down to Yarrowford .
27 At An Lochan Uaine the route leaves the main track , turns right at a post marked blue , climbs the hillside and contours along with views across the valley .
28 However , at the end of the film , the car driven by Mark ( Sean Connery ) drives right down to the end of the road , and instead of falling into the ( non-existent ) harbour , turns right into a previously unsuspected street or quay along its edge and disappears from view .
29 To rejoin the line one turns left along the road , crosses the river on the road bridge , and then turns right .
30 It turns right and into the car park .
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