"No you can't. The gas company turned it off." "Now,what I'm telling you is for your own good.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

We've lit candles, we've turned off the lights, everyone is sitting in darkness except for the lights of their candles as the final reading is read.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

And the man took it, and looked at it careful, and turned it round this way and that, and says,"H'm,so it is.Well, what is he good for?"

VOA: special.2009.08.29

We turned another corner around the central plaza area and the density of people is even greater over here.

VOA: standard.2010.01.14

The president stressed that America has turned a new page, and is forging a framework while abiding by the rule of law.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

But what you really need is hiring,a faucet. And no one has turned on that faucet yet."

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

He says the government has turned this country into a police state and this is illegal.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

Kane,who turned 21 in November, is in his third season with the Chicago Blackhawks.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

This plant turns debris from buildings - many destroyed by Israeli air strikes - into sand and gravel that is then turned into cinder blocks for building.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

Black,who is a father himself, adds that the Council of Dads has turned out to be about more than just a community of support for Feiler's daughters.

VOA: standard.2010.06.19

Ibrahim,who believes that the alienating tactics of al-Shabab has already turned the majority of the Somali population against the rebel group, says that this latest attack is a significant blow to the Mogadishu government.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

The U.S.says he defected to America. And,in still another new twist, Amiri has turned up here - at the Iranian interests section of the Pakistani Embassy in Washington, where he is reportedly requesting repatriation.

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

The consensus view in the Americas is the United States turned its gaze away from hemispheric concerns after the attacks of September 11,2001, focusing instead on Afghanistan, Iraq,and the global war on terror.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

Genes are being turned off, genes are being turned on." That's Neurobiologist David Clayton from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of the lead researchers in an international team that has sequenced and analyzed the genome of the zebra finch.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05