How To Use Turned on In A Sentence
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His season may have turned on a couple of bits of skill and a small dash of luck.
Times, Sunday Times
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He pulled himself up and stumbled to the bathroom, where he turned on the cold tap and collapsed at the bottom of the shower, barely awake.
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When Harry's turned on, his adrenaline flows and the endorphins pump, and he feels alive instead of dead.
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I know by my family history that a forebear of mine turned on the gods of Mother India and professed faith to the One True God.
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He may be getting turned on watching them, but it's you he wants to have sex with.
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The car turned on the wet road and slipped into the fence.
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She grinned and turned on her heel, ready to bolt down the hallway and dart her way out of the prison.
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I turned on my heel and left the room.
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But the conviction was overturned on a technicality.
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So when I turned on my seven-hundred-dollar heels to strut toward the bar, and over to where Mona was—perched up on a barstool with a frosty drink in her hand, like I wanted to be—I was slightly annoyed when some nigga grabbed me gently by the forearm, pulling me back to the floor.
Deep Throat Diva
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Burton turned on the wipers and pressed the defog button.
Temporary Wife
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Investigators are still studying the home's wreckage to find the cause of a gas leak which ignited when central heating was turned on.
The Sun
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He turned on the gas and lit the stove.
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Indeed, scientists are coming to realize that subtle changes in our genetic material -- technically known as epigenetic changes -- can alter the way that genes are turned on and off, in ways that affect the body's functioning.
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'This house will do whatever is incumbent upon it in good conscience,' said the abbot with chilly emphasis, and watched with an unrevealing face as Drogo Bosiet, with only the curtest of nods by way of leavetaking, turned on his booted heel and strode out of the chapterhouse.
The Hermit of Eyton Forest
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The fans have turned on their manager and the board are getting twitchy.
The Sun
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Then she stepped beyond the threshold of the dark and foreboding hole in the mountain, and turned on the lights at each side of her helmet.
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I turned on my TACAN and dialed the frequency of the ship.
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We turned on the television and eventually saw the streaks of meteoritic shuttle that are now as iconic as the Y plume of the Challenger.
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Liz turned on a radio to mask the noise.
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Gavrilova returned one day from a seminar in Nizhny Novgorod and decided on no-nonsense measures.
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His father turned on a small lamp with a rose-colored shade, which cast a dull light across a wide bed, spread with a plum satin coverlet.
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At the last general election, the Tories returned only 14 women MPs out of their total of 166.
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Tugging at her mane of red-gold hair she turned on her heel and looked Paula up and down.
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Three pairs of US army shades turned on me, and a couple of American guns waggled discouragingly in my direction.
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He turned on the heat as high as it would go, and an alarming gust of hot air burst through the broken vents.
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Laughing to myself, I turned on the faucet and began rinsing out the mug.
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The Kaisers were also tired of being conditioned to accept everyone else's values, and when their pursuit of fame turned on them and failed them, they were sick of that too.
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She lingered for a moment, uncertain what to do, then turned on her heel and left abruptly.
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Beyond the designated protesters' area, we see an occasional protester with his back turned on the motorcade.
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She has not turned onto the dead-end road of reminiscence, disability and dependence, but rather onto the long, fulfilling road of life, happiness, and salvation.
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Whenever Einar got extremely mad, he turned on his heel and walked away.
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A shy New York artist fears she may have descended from a family of cursed women who turn into panthers when turned on.
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Then she turned on her heel and we marched back down the hall.
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The day of the show, we turned on the strobe lights and got ready onstage.
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I was taking screenshots & putting them in the documentation, but now the engineer has debugging turned on and the pages look all wonky.
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Without any warning, the lights flickered then turned on brightly.
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That night, we bought four bottles of wine, turned on some music and had our postgame report.
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This can be overturned only by a two-thirds majority of US senators.
Times, Sunday Times
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He turned on the light after he went inside.
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People don't get turned on when businesses convey self-important messages.
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Switch on both front and rear defrosters and make sure the air conditioning is turned on.
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Witter, who is co-author with Lisa Chen of The She Spot, told GRITtv that women voters aren't turned on by the makeover of Michelle Obama into nicey-nicey wife.
Laura Flanders: The F Word: No Way To Woo a Woman
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He carried the can with him into the bathroom where he stripped off his clothes and turned on the shower.
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The murderously obscene verse that he occasionally turned on his rivals and enemies matched the aggression and violence of the time, but it also sprang from the same tormented and inspired source as his own helpless love.
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The passengers had their vehicles returned once the train had been towed out of the tunnel.
The Sun
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While this has been described as a modulated carrier wave, and carrier waves are usually considered continuous, pulsed radars do not send a continuous signal: the carrier is turned on only when it is modulated into pulses
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It appears he negotiated a corner but crashed as he turned onto a straight section of road.
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But the Doctor had turned on his heel and was almost skipping along the right-hand corridor.
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There's no better way to get turned on, save for swimming I guess ... or like tennis, yayness.
Rouflaquette Diary Entry
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The expedition returned only two weeks after it had left.
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On his return, I sat into the car, turned on the ignition and pulled the starter switch and the engine came to life immediately.
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He turned on the sidelights as he went through the door.
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At the kitchen door, I turned once again to look at her in her blue housedress.
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He swam for a few strokes, then turned on his back to float, too weary or too hurt to keep swimming.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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Now, if most of you are like me, you know the heat isn't getting turned on until the windows are frosted over, so there's gonna be a lot of tip-toeing around, wool gear and heavy blankets, seen?
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Once in the bathroom, I turned on the water, allowing the steamy drops to flow freely from the faucet.
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The referee turned one last time to face the last competitor, the dark fighter from before.
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The cat suddenly turned on its trainer.
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The hay was gathered from the fields, and cattle were turned on to the eddish.
Sons and Lovers
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All those cases turned on the effect of particular words in the rent review clause.
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In 1999 he realized that, for all his daring exploits, he had been keeping his back turned on the biggest adventure of all: building a company from scratch.
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She was physically fragile but he turned on the charm: dancing, chats, moonlight serenades outside her hotel window.
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Most features can be turned on or off by selecting the appropriate radio button.
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I went into my dark little room and turned on the gas jet.
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She turned on her toes, holding out her skirt.
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Sam turned on her heel and walked the other way, towards the rear exit of the building.
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I then quickly turned on my mobile phone and called Sarah, but the line was busy.
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She turned on the tap and gave a whoop of delight as water cascaded forth, hot and plentiful.
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Edward displayed shrewdness and ruthlessness in the way he turned on nobles who had usurped his power during his minority.
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His normally placid dog turned on him and bit him in the leg.
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The only people who had any contact with him were the service engineers who turned on the gas.
Times, Sunday Times
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I knew this as I turned on the morning news to see a shot of the Empire State Building in the foreground and the World Trade Center with black smoke billowing from the North Tower.
Remember, always « Adventures in Juggling
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Taking off her clothes and stepping into the shower stall, she pulled the curtain across and turned on the hot water.
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The artificers landed at six a.m.; but, as no materials could be got upon the rock this morning, they were employed in boring trenail holes and in various other operations, and after four hours 'work they returned on board the tender.
Records of a Family of Engineers
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The east London club have now had four of their past five red cards overturned on appeal.
Times, Sunday Times
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They paddled inshore in a coracle of skins which, for the most part, lay upturned on the deck like the hollow carcass of some giant turtle.
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He elsewhere asserts very decidedly (without however giving reasons) that the Quartodeciman controversy turned on the point whether the 14th Nisan was the day of the Last Supper or the day of the Crucifixion, the
Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
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He followed her inside and as she turned on the lights he took off his coat and rested on a stool at the kitchen counter.
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The three suspects appear to have turned on each other, as verdicts in the closed pre-trial hearings are expected today.
Times, Sunday Times
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The only people who had any contact with him were the service engineers who turned on the gas.
Times, Sunday Times
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I turned on the CD player and watched as Amanda lit the incense.
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At a passing thought, she turned on the wireless.
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Then she turned on her heel and led the two men down the passage and through a dark kitchen to an enclosed yard.
FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
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Did you know that many of the homes that have been burglarized didn't have their security systems turned on?
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The 'hibachi' grill didn't get turned on tonight, '' said Arenas, referring to the word he sometimes yells when taking a shot.
USATODAY.com - Basketball - New York vs. Washington
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Scowling, I took back my dishrag and turned on the coffee machine.
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She turned on the charm to everyone she met.
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The red card was overturned on appeal.
The Sun
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The earlier verdict was overturned on a legal technicality.
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She turned on the hose and a jet of water sprayed across the garden.
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Mr Macarthur, of Riverside Road, had his ticket overturned on the grounds that the wording was incorrect.
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Gym patron Liz Hleza claimed that the man turned on her because she was shouting "yebo!
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She turned on the hose and a jet of water sprayed across the garden.
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Your bargaining skills are turned on but ensuring a deal is fair also makes it lucky.
The Sun
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I nosed into the shadow and turned on my searchlight and the cone of brightness showed me nothing but the dreariness of pea-sized rubble and the flats of rock dust and little boiling areas where the dust, electrified by the inpouring solar radiation, hopped and jumped and skipped like a frying pan of fleas.
The Trouble With Tycho
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He turned one over with his foot: the coat collar and cuffs were all white, the pockets cut in the upright.
Man of Honour
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Police have started questioning the driver and passengers after a coach overturned on a mountain road.
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He turned on chief executives with alarming regularity and would often speak for just a few minutes before heading for the door, leaving embarrassed party officials to try to explain away his ungracious behaviour.
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The same group has now turned on Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and is castigating him for not taking more aggressive action to recover the temple.
Thailand Going Rogue
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Tribe has turned on tribe, rebel movements have fragmented, then splintered.
Times, Sunday Times
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When the cuckoos, dings, and dongs finally stopped Fred settled back into his chair and turned on his laptop.
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Back inside his room, he turned on the overhead fan and the air conditioner.
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Firehoses were turned on and soon three thousand picketers, thugs, and police rumbled in the streets with clubs, blackjacks, wrenches, chains, and tear gas.
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All around there was bustle and gossip, and when work stopped they turned on music and danced.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your bargaining skills are turned on but ensuring a deal is fair also makes it lucky.
The Sun
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Most of us thought that during the past few years Janet Reno's antitrust czar and his prosecution team were turned on by lawyerlike stuff like consent decrees, special masters and making Bill Gates's lawyers look like crash dummies in court.
Joel Klein, Entrepreneur
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The car turned on the wet road and slipped into the fence.
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This year we only turned on our central heating towards the end of November as it was unseasonably warm.
Times, Sunday Times
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This enzyme, called protein kinase G (PKG), is turned on and activated in response to injury or inflammation.
Discovery: Chronic Pain ‘On/Off’ Switch | Impact Lab
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The Poznan weather gods knew the importance of the day and turned on almost flat water conditions with barely a breath of a head wind.
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Well, you know, you could not have turned on your television and not notice the fact that the vast majority of people who were displaced by this disaster were not white.
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Investigators are still studying the home's wreckage to find the cause of a gas leak which ignited when central heating was turned on.
The Sun
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I'm sure we watched the nightly news, and then we turned on the movie.
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Leonidas turned on her, all his pent annoyance bursting, `Don't say `all right" to me, woman!
COUP D'ETAT
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People have probably been turned on by this sort of thing since the first caveman saw the first cavewoman eat the first carbonated dinosaur.
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But it is important to remember that screen reader users do not always have the title attribute functionality turned on so they may not get the information that is provided by the title attribute.
"Stay in your house!"
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Then without sparing a moment's pity for the fawning, awkward creature that Jonas had become, Christy turned on her heels.
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A minibus taxi overturned on Hospital Bend, where northbound lanes were awash in a river of brown, silt-laden water.
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Then he turned on his light, circumspectly, directing its rays to the ground at his feet.
When the World Was Young
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The camera will be turned on fifteen minutes prior to launch and will show the orbiter and solid rocket boosters on the launch pad.
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He turned on some mood music, but very low, just like I like it.
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He gave a quick, curt nod to the soldiers on duty and turned on to the Al Ain road.
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At no time was she turned onto her front to discharge water from her lungs and I believe that she was not given mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
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Investigators are still studying the home's wreckage to find the cause of a gas leak which ignited when central heating was turned on.
The Sun
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Now the tables are turned on the university's contentious president.
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With that, he turned on his heel and strode into his cabin, slamming the door behind him.
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Turned on its side and emptied of peanut butter, the Maxi is a watertight sleeping unit that can be rolled to any number of vacant lots.
Paul Greenberg: Tips for Tougher Times
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The prospective corpse was not "heeled," as he was not in any feud just then, and was not expecting trouble, but he knew that he would have to act, and quickly, by his wits, or he would be shot, and he turned on the fellow and said carelessly:
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America
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The rain sprinkled down, as the car pulled away from the graveyard, and turned onto the highway.
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Brillo had heard what Big said and turned on the larger set in the front of the room at the same time.
FLASH POINT
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When the pattern of the call signal is for telephone, the main power supply is not turned on.
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Koku had turned on the charm, disarming them with the thoroughness of a mono-molecular knife.
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She slowly undressed and then turned on the shower and let the hot water start to wash away all the dirt and grime from the day's activities.
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When Mr. Bush finished his five-minute statement — with reporters arranged before him in White House-assigned seats, waiting for the news conference that appeared to be coming — he abruptly turned on his heel and strode from the room, ignoring all questions.
March 2004
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The 'copter man turned on the vision set he had packed from the staff gyrocar.
Morale A Story of the War of 1941-43
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It is conducted so as to consume gas only when water is drawn, and by an automatic arrangement it lights its own gas as soon as the hot water is turned on and extinguishes as soon as the water is turned off.
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Those that did, turned on to the Zeros who were by now enroute to other targets and then back to the battle fleet.
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Your bargaining skills are turned on but ensuring a deal is fair also makes it lucky.
The Sun
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The core academic ethos involves commitment to truth, reason, untrammelled inquiry, free speech and collegiality, but this is increasingly being turned on its head by rampant anti-intellectual managerialism.
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When the Army software, owned by DHS, was turned on the bee remains, it detected not only the fungus, but also a virus known as the invertebrate iridescent virus (IIV).
TIME.com: Top Stories
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This evening I settled down happy as can be, turned on the TV, and within moments was sound asleep.
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This is important because what makes a cancerous cell different from a noncancerous cell is the set of genes that are turned on or off.
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Cohen especially had the charisma turned on at full blast, pausing before the songs to chat with audience members, tell stories, or just gush with thanks over so many people showing up to support them.
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I'm sure we watched the nightly news, and then we turned on the movie.
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Then, when he had soldered about a hundred links he returned once more to his minute work, propping his hands against the edge of the _cheville_, a small piece of board which the friction of his hands had polished.
L'Assommoir
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His pace slowed further as he turned onto Willow Avenue and saw his house, second on the left, a red brick ranch with spidery ivy growing up the east side.
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Tribe has turned on tribe, rebel movements have fragmented, then splintered.
Times, Sunday Times
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A previous conviction was overturned on appeal.
The Sun
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She turned on him, squaring her shoulders and holding her head high.
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It's as though a grimy pall has been lifted off the city and a Bohemian spirit has returned once more to Bohemia.
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The new recruits adapted well to military life and, although a few deserted or turned on their officers, proved loyal to the United States.
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As a stopgap measure, water distribution is being regulated with the flow being turned on at certain times while they look for other solutions to the problem.
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So the tap had to be turned on as well as the plug put in the bath.
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However, the game was turned on its head in the space of two minutes with Villa taking the lead.
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I was a fan of the band back in the '60s, before I got turned on to harder rock.
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In the past year he has turned one of his fortnightly magazines into a weekly, and one monthly into a fortnightly.
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All now turned on the outcome of John's attempt to recover his lost lands.
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Manuscripts, photographs, and other submitted material can be acknowledged or returned only if accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
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The current is turned on at a signal from the Warden, and the assassin heaves heavily as though the straps would break.
Archive 2007-08-01
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Jim gave his regulator a couple of squirts on the purge button to reassure himself that his air was turned on.
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Think of geomedicine as your personal health surveillance system -- always turned on and always vigilant about sensing changes in your environments communities, neighborhoods, households and worksites, both past and present that might impact your health.
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He turned one over with his foot: the coat collar and cuffs were all white, the pockets cut in the upright.
Man of Honour
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A man who gets turned on by cold light technology and electroluminescence.
Flash
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Some engines are turned on and off, with the cars coasting for as far as they can to increase fuel efficiency.
The Sun
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He turned on his moccasined heel and walked out, imperturbable, sphinx-like, neither giving nor receiving greetings nor looking to right or left.
Chapter III
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It was not vanity -- it was ready sympathy that had made him alive to a certain appealingness in her behavior toward him; and the difficulty with which she had seemed to raise her eyes to bow to him, in the first instance, was to be interpreted now by that unmistakable look of involuntary confidence which she had afterward turned on him under the consciousness of his approach.
Daniel Deronda
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The reversal in the Supreme Court turned on the application of s.2 of the Charter.
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The volunteer returned once a week to ask the patient if he or she wanted to exchange the prints for others.
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Sheet lightening turned on and off and silhouetted the palm trees for hours.
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He turned on the shower and waited for the hot water to flow through so that he could adjust the temperature.
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Archer was proud of the glances turned on her, and the simple joy of possessorship cleared away his underlying perplexities.
X. Book I
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After filling the sink and soaking the shirt, she turned on the hot water in the combo shower and tub, shut the drain, and poured a capful of the bubble bath powder under the splash.
Bodily Harm
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The Zener then gets a kick when the radio is turned on and capacitor C1 partially discharges through it.
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Rual turned on the faucet and grabbed the neon green sponge.
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He struck a match and turned on the gas fire stove, placing a greased pan on the fire.
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On the track the team have again failed to conjure notable results, were tainted by Piquet Jr's attack on Briatore when he was axed - describing him as his "executioner" - and then hit the headlines again in Hungary when Alonso's tyre fell off, resulting in a one-race ban that was overturned on appeal.
Planet F1 | Formula 1 News
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He turned on the television and sat on the couch, his knees drawn to his chin.
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In its chronic illness, her body has turned on itself, nursing and feeding its own traumatic memories continually.
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The Kindle battery lasted longer in theory, but the circuity for when I turned on the wireless each morning to take my newspapers tended to eat up way more battery than you'd expect, and the Kindle said its battery likes to be charged often instead of drain-and-charge, so I can settle with the battery life on the touch.
The Apple E-Book Reader
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As the result was announced, a radio was turned on and a hush descended.
Times, Sunday Times
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The story told of a Canelos-owned truck that overturned on a highway, killing 21 farmworkers who were riding in the back.
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I marched over to the sink, turned on the lukewarm water and ran my arms under it.
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers got turned on by the bulb during 1994's Woodstock Music Festival, dawning memorable self-illuminating costumes for their stage show.
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Before Taiden could even begin to refute these accusations, the crowd turned on him.
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Once the pack is empty, another tap is turned on to send water to the rinsing nozzle inside the container.
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The ion and electron monitors were turned on several months ago in preparation for their role during solar wind collection.
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I turned on some music and got started packing the rest of my breakables.
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Billy turned on a radio to get the sports news.
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Brigitte glared at him, turned on her heel , and stomped out of the room.
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Turned on a tap: hot water!
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He was expelled two months ago for behavioural and truancy problems and returned on Friday to resit a maths exam.
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His father turned on a small lamp with a rose-colored shade, which cast a dull light across a wide bed, spread with a plum satin coverlet.
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The benzene having been introduced into the cylinder, the water is turned on and the apparatus cooled, the agitators are set running, and the acid cock turned on so as to allow it to flow in a very thin stream into the nitrator.
Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
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While turning an undistinguished group of mesenchymal cells into muscle is a complex transformation, that transformation can be turned on or off with a set of very simple commands.
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The coach gave the signal and turned on the hose with a flourish.
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She estimates it was 20 to 30 seconds during which she had her back turned on these students, when they got up to mischief and this incident happened.
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Steve grabbed the clicker and turned on the tv, flipping through some channels before settling on ‘Office Space’.
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Three people were injured in the second accident in the north of the county when their car overturned on the Fanore road outside Lisdoonvarna at about 6pm.
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Yesterday I had just turned onto the hardtop when I saw a logging truck up ahead of me signal right and pull off to the side of the road.
