Example sentences of "[verb] on [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 | The frown was back between his eyes as I put on the light in my room . |
| 3 | Switching on the light , she saw that he was fine . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After switching on the light he sat down behind his solid oak desk … made , on his orders , from Bittsevsky oak … , opened his leather-bound diary and scanned the day 's agenda . |
| 6 | He showed them into the lounge and drew the threadbare curtains before switching on the light . |
| 7 | There was a bedroom to their left , at the front of the house , and Carson pushed open the opposite door and led the way through into the sitting-room , switching on the light as he went . |
| 8 | She crept stealthily along the gallery , not daring to put on a light in case she should wake Luke , past his room , feeling carefully in the half-darkness . |
| 9 | He scrambled out of his sleeping bag and went to fetch a torch he kept for when he wanted to read late , not liking to put on the light and get all the other going . |
| 10 | The room was growing very dark , yet Breeze did not like to put on the light . |
| 11 | Not daring to put on the light , she sat up and felt for the glass of water on the bedside table . |
| 12 | ‘ Do you think it 's safe to switch on a light ? ’ |
| 13 | Perry 's manager Sally Dickinson said at one point Mr Glenn had tried to switch on a light to raise the alarm but had been threatened with violence . |
| 14 | He dropped the padlock on to the floor then pushed the heavy door open and reached inside to switch on the light . |
| 15 | The moon peering in helped her to see and there was no need to switch on the light . |
| 16 | He closed the door and reached out to switch on the light , making her blink in the sudden flood of brilliant light . |
| 17 | Clearly this was no place for me , and having tiptoed back to the sitting-room , I switched on a light and picked up the evening paper . |
| 18 | Evelyn reached over his shoulder , switched on a light , and gasped . |
| 19 | She switched on the lights , dumped her bag on the table and turned to him abruptly . |
| 20 | ‘ Any particular section ? ’ asked Hayman as he switched on the lights . |
| 21 | Eloise switched on the lights . |
| 22 | He switched on the lights and drove down the tank paths towards the front gate . |
| 23 | The security man swung open the door to the boardroom where the party had taken place and switched on the lights , revealing the room as Blanche and Dexter had last seen it the day after the killing . |
| 24 | Josie switched on the lights for the department 's makeup mirror , and Lucy winced as the brightness hit her . |
| 25 | Indoors , she flicked the rain from her hair and switched on the lights . |
| 26 | She stumbled to her feet , crossed the dark room and switched on the light . |
| 27 | I switched on the light in the bedroom . |
| 28 | I switched on the light in the hall . |
| 29 | I stepped forward and switched on the light in the kitchen . |
| 30 | Hassan Hamdan , aged seven , was shot in the head by a sniper when he switched on the light at his bedroom in Mossaitbeh , a poor residential district controlled by Amal . |