Example sentences of "the light go [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The light went on in the hall and the door opened . |
| 2 | When the light went out in the last room , Bridget began to get up . |
| 3 | This time , the lights went up on the slipper-fight . |
| 4 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 5 | The lights went out during the two world wars and the austerity years which followed , so although this year is actually the 80th anniversary , it 's only the 60th display . |
| 6 | She had talked of a sex scene when she was on Wogan , but he assumed it would be something more romantic — a magnolia bud of a tit peeping from beneath bed linen as she held out her arms to her lover and the lights went down at the end of the play . |
| 7 | At the time I was mucking out the byre stalls , and piling the manure on top of my big heap when I saw the lights go on in the house . |
| 8 | And she sang a few bars into the mouthpiece , swaying a little , watching the lights go off in the theatre . |
| 9 | In the Mala Strana , the secretaries and the artists , the nurses and the busmen return to their apartments , the lights go on in the high windows , the courtyard below us is filling up with the smells of food and voices discussing — what ? |
| 10 | One of the most common mistakes is beginning foreplay after the lights go out for the night . |