Sentence examples for switched on something from inspiring English sources

But, Mr. Judt says in the program, in recent years the Bush administration's foreign policy has amplified traditional European dismay and "switched on something I haven't see in a very long time".

Burlingame's attention seemed to switch on something in Ward.

At a ceremony on May 17th, South Africa's president, Thabo Mbeki, was due to throw the switch on something more high-tech: a 60m rand ($6m) electronic trading system, adopted from London.

It just seems like something has switched on and he realizes what this means.

But I wasn't switched on that they might escape or something like that".

Once Ramsay allowed himself to get angry, he seemed to look around for other things to stay angry about, as though something had been switched on that he couldn't control.

Did you come to a parade or do you want to finish something?' " Mr. Djokic switched on his machine and lumbered forward, crushing two concrete flower boxes before raising his big shovel to smash windows of the Parliament.

The feature did start out as something Facebook manually switched on.

When it lights up, it tells us that the gene we are looking at has been switched "on" and we can then learn something about its importance.

When Lara was switched on and really wanted to do something, he was the most dangerous batsman I've ever played against, he was almost impossible to bowl to.

That's what you do until the moment you stop, and then you switch on to something else.