Example sentences of "[adv] the light [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Josie switched on the lights for the department 's makeup mirror , and Lucy winced as the brightness hit her . |
| 2 | ‘ You plug it in when you go away and it switches on the light for you at the same time every evening , and switches it off too . |
| 3 | She stayed near him till he slept , went out into the dark hall , switched on the light with pride and with the knowledge of what that little act meant , what it had cost , would cost ; she pressed a tiny switch on the wall , and electrons obediently flowed through cables , because the woman in the Electricity had so ordered it |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I switched on the light in the bedroom . |
| 6 | I switched on the light in the hall . |
| 7 | I stepped forward and switched on the light in the kitchen . |
| 8 | I did not switch on the light in case it should dazzle her . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The frown was back between his eyes as I put on the light in my room . |
| 11 | Behind him , Ilse switched on the light in the kitchen . |
| 12 | She watched him as he switched on the light by the bed and drew the curtains . |
| 13 | He switched on the light before holding up the picture for Wycliffe 's inspection . |
| 14 | Suddenly the light in the recess came on . |
| 15 | One pair of curtains drawn back to the two outer corners of the bay will look attractive , but they will cut down the light from the side windows . |
| 16 | And perhaps the light from those ears of corn which are in just the right condition for her to lay her eggs , fluoresce in a particular manner , recognizing which from her own inward pre-patterned instincts , she homes in and deposits her eggs . |
| 17 | So the light on her face is just a little bit too harsh . |
| 18 | Nothing to do but go upstairs and sleep ; only the lights in the morning room and she could turn those off without entering , just reach around the door . |
| 19 | " Do n't be silly , it 's only the light of the sunset . |
| 20 | It was only the light from their own carriage lamps falling on the neglected driveway that told her they were approaching the house , and the salt smell that got stronger and stronger and seeped through the closed windows of the carriage . |
| 21 | well it 's just the light on the picture is n't it really ? |
| 22 | Bristol was burning , and these were not the lights of Oxford with a message of unattainable ambition . |
| 23 | It is not the lights of London , visible over the roofs of the houses on the lower side of the lane . |
| 24 | Hopefully the lights in the Opera House will soon shine again to brighten the Belfast night . |
| 25 | Switching off the lights at 11 p.m. would deny many of them their private study-time . |
| 26 | Turn off the lights on the tank ( which reduces the stress on the fish ) and float them in their bag in the aquarium for twenty minutes to help equalise the temperatures . |
| 27 | He left the room , switching off the light behind him . |
| 28 | Now I asked her whether she felt able to imagine switching off the light in the cupboard , still leaving the door open to the hallway . |
| 29 | Christians should show forth the light of the transforming power of the gospel in their lives . |
| 30 | Then I picked up the lights of Burnham to starboard , and knew roughly where I was . |