Example sentences of "light were [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight cars were illuminated , including car 3 of 1885 ( see p. 37 ) , and the lights were kept on for the rest of the season to enhance the scene . |
| 2 | It was raining softly and , because it was early evening , lights were coming on around the airport . |
| 3 | In the distance a mess of lights were spread out across the face of the night like a shovelful of glowing cinders , flickering and scintillating in the currents of air rising from the villages in the plain between . |
| 4 | But then , as night fell and the lights were switched on in the carriage , illuminating the sepia photographs of Morecambe Bay at dawn and donkeys trotting Blackpool sands , he felt his privacy was being invaded and had stopped making those conciliatory gestures . |
| 5 | Little lights were springing up in the woods as if the houses thus made apparent had been magicked into position on that instant . |