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Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [art] light " in BNC.

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1	The sensor will react instantaneously to body heat and bring on a light outside your home whenever anyone approaches .
2	Walking down the light and airy aisles of this superstore , one could be forgiven for mistaking the piles of Novell Netware for so many boxes of Monopoly piled high on the shelves .
3	And er , I thought I 'd probably have wall paper on that wall , you know , use , use the curtains just as plenty of fullness , but have them for keeping out the light or keeping in the heat ,
4	I clenched out the light and stuck my fingers in my ears .
5	The frown was back between his eyes as I put on the light in my room .
6	A rainbow is formed from the interaction of pure white sunlight with molecules of moisture in the atmosphere acting as prisms that break up the light into the respective colours perceived through our senses .
7	Put out the light !
8	Breeze read this through three times , and then put out the light .
9	I put out the light , climbed out of the window and pushed it to .
10	Many people practice relaxation techniques , take a long soak in a bath of warm ( not hot or cold ) water , or have a quiet read in bed before turning out the light .
11	For the less rarified among us they are the things you press yourself between before turning out the light .
12	‘ hooligans on housing estates causing disturbances in the common parts of blocks of flats , blockading entrances , throwing things down stairs , banging on doors , peering in at windows , and knocking over dustbins ; groups of youths persistently shouting abuse and obscenities or pestering people waiting to catch public transport or to enter a hall or cinema ; someone turning out the light in a crowded dance hall , in a way likely to cause panic ; rowdy behaviour in the streets late at night which alarms local residents . ’
13	‘ Turning out the light . ’
14	Perhaps , thought Leonora , turning out the light , she would never have learned the truth if Clem had n't written .
15	He felt stiff when he got up from the chair and turned out the light and groped his way through the still open doorway to the bed , shedding his clothes on to the floor .
16	She turned out the light and reaching for a pitchfork crept towards the tack room .
17	Anthea turned out the light and stretched full length on the bed .
18	Then I turned out the light and settled at the window amidst the bottle-brush fronds of monkey-puzzle .
19	But anyway , I put the pills and the gin firmly aside , turned out the light again , and tried to go to sleep .
20	She turned out the light .
21	Trusting virgins drafted into marriage never found Nature had all the answers when they turned out the light .
22	Almost at once she came back into the kitchen , turned out the light , and left the flat .
23	Marion put the pad on the bedside table and turned out the light .
24	She reached over and turned out the light , sick with disappointment to find she was no wiser about her identity than the night before .
25	For answer Penry picked her up and tossed her into the bed , stripped off his dressing-gown and turned out the light .
26	She ran the tip of her tongue over her lips , heard the sharp hiss of Penry 's intake of breath , then his head blotted out the light as his mouth met hers in a kiss which shot a jolt of electricity through every vein in her body .
27	The next developments involved spectroscopy. the study of the sharp coloured lines resolved by a prism when it splits up the light emitted by a heated specimen .
28	Say a prayer and light one of the candles each Sunday in Advent gradually building up the light as Christ 's coming draws nearer .
29	Switching on the light , she saw that he was fine .
30	Then she had to imagine switching on the light in that cupboard under the stairs and taking a couple of steps forward so that she was just inside — but with the door open to the hall and with the knowledge that she only had to take a single large step back to be out there again .