Example sentences of "[noun] lit up the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At one point , a flare lit up the night sky .
2 A flare lit up the sky as Taff was talking , casting eerie shadows among the trees .
3 And a star-shell lit up the winter night sky …
4 Lee switched on the torch and the beam lit up the stack-yard like a searchlight .
5 The moon lit up the roof of the breaking waves .
6 A dash of lightning lit up the inn sign .
7 I could only watch as the lightning lit up the windows and they struggled to get off that wall . ’
8 When a flash of lightning lit up the sky to the south we decided we 'd better go now !
9 There was another roll of thunder , and once again the lightning lit up the garden and the surrounding trees .
10 The stars lit up the scene , and the little black iron lamps that gleamed outside each villa , in perfect keeping with the traditional style of the architecture .
11 The headlights of the taxi-van behind us flashed as it hit bumps in the road and the interior lit up the faces of the men in the van with me .
12 Another flash lit up the sky .
13 The first try lit up the ground in the 23rd minute and followed two surging drives .
14 Her passenger said the car headlamps lit up the bike .
15 The flames lit up the skyline but there was no sign of Mayne .
16 Cantona , whose hat-trick lit up the Charity Shield at Wembley , had to be lectured by Wilkinson on the virtues of integrating into the English game .
17 The short burst from Silk 's Uzi lit up the bridge in a flickering light , showing its emptiness as the cat bucked and disintegrated in a shower of red pieces .
18 The flame from a scarlet candle lit up the stubble darkening his chin and the even blacker rings under his eyes .
19 To make matters worse , peculiar pinky glows of static electricity lit up the mastheads and rigging of the ship with an unearthly light .
20 Then the angry dancing glare of fire lit up the darkness from further back along the main corridor .
21 Multiplied ten times , the arc of the galaxy lit up the cockpit , a silver veil across the void .
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