Sentence examples for when he turned it from inspiring English sources

When he turned it on, it hummed faintly.

When he turned it over to the informant, the police pounced.

Perhaps it had been part of Henry VIII's Bridewell palace that Edward VI made better known when he turned it into a penitentiary for vagabonds and whores.

The rolled-up sheet had been held in place by thread that was tied to the switch for the headmaster's reading light so tautly that when he turned it on, the thread snapped and the caricature was unfurled.

He devised a plan of escape so fiendishly ingenious that I could hardly believe my eyes (when I saw it diagrammed on a piece of paper) or ears (when he turned it right side up and explained it to me).

Rather than keep the battery right next to the electromagnet when he turned it on, he could carry it to the next room, or down the hall, or even downstairs.

You just hope you're not the guy on the mound when he turns it around.

Occasionally the veteran's acting is as stiff as his horse-weary back, but when he turns it on, he's a mighty presence.

"Will you take a vacation this year?" "Where to?" When he turns it around, as Japanese cabdrivers are inclined to do, I tell him that I have three children, a big boy and two little girls.

Braddock is entered late for the contest, less as an underdog than as a sacrificial offering, and when he turns it around the crowd — Braddocks to a man — begins to sniff a hero.

His neck cracks audibly when he turns it, DeGuerin said, and Durst could be seen twisting his neck in court last week.