Example sentences of "[art] lights [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he 'd sit and stare at those same walls made transparent by all the lights left on at night . |
| 2 | It 's chains and bolts on the door , the telephone next to the bed , all the lights left on … ’ |
| 3 | But she could n't forget , as the lights twinkled on around the entire hillside , that this man owned them all , every last apartment , every cypress , every swimming-pool and tennis court . |
| 4 | Yet there was a sealed-in-cosiness when darkness fell early and the lights came on . |
| 5 | Just before we arrived at the station , the lights came on . |
| 6 | Ten minutes after the robbery , the lights came on . |
| 7 | Suddenly , all the lights came on in the hospital and they eventually opened a side-door and let her in . |
| 8 | Suddenly the lights came on ! |
| 9 | The lights came on . |
| 10 | Then a woman screamed , and all the lights came on again . |
| 11 | When the lights came on , Raoul ran . |
| 12 | The lights came on , and they heard a man 's laugh . |
| 13 | He went in ahead of her and tried the lights ; they flickered once , but he seemed to know what to do because he went inside and Sandy heard him thump something , and then all the lights came on . |
| 14 | As he entered it , one of the prisoners found the switches , and the lights came on again . |
| 15 | The girl shut the door , the lights came on , and the man shut his eyes in the bright light . |
| 16 | She pushed herself away again as soon as the lights came on , shook her head . |
| 17 | The lights came on again , and , laughing and jostling , the guests began to stream towards the door . |
| 18 | She stood back and acknowledged the applause of the crowd as the lights came on again and we were able to concentrate on our dessert . |
| 19 | He ate his dinner and said nothing , played his violin and felt nothing , worked when the lights came on again and went to bed without another thought . |
| 20 | Some of us were still there to see Oxford when the lights came on again : V.E. night saw floodlighting return not only to some of the ancient buildings but also ( with apparatus hastily improvised by members of the university ) to a magnificent horse chestnut tree in Parks Road in full blossom , its blaze of floodlit white ‘ candles ’ making a spectacular welcome to the return of peace and light . |
| 21 | He 'd be talking to some man all evening , they 'd be getting on very well indeed as far as we could all see , but then Miss P would still be there alone when the lights went on , and the man would have gone . |
| 22 | When the lights went on five minutes later , we were still all lying on the floor . |
| 23 | But then I thought ‘ Driven By You … ’ and ping ! the lights went on ; I thought of it as the power struggle that goes on in relationships . |
| 24 | The lights went on ; we leapt up and pounced on them , adding our howls of ingrate triumph to the general confusion — ending the happy myth not with a whimper but a bang , while Addy , the fellow-conspirator , leant against the wall and laughed herself to helplessness … |
| 25 | The lights went on , but the music and dancing continued . |
| 26 | The lights went on . |
| 27 | And when the lights went on again in Belfast in 1945 General Eisenhower , later President , was a guest in the Royal Box . |
| 28 | He recycled the wheels a few times but still the lights remained on . |
| 29 | The lights stayed on . |
| 30 | The lights flickered on and off for the last dance . |