Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] the light " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most children ‘ light ’ in this task means ‘ light bulb ’ as in ‘ Switch on the light ’ . |
| 2 | I have many memories of Eton : services in College Chapel , especially in winter when the lights were lit and I listened to the massed singing of a favourite hymn ; the Headmaster , Dr Alington , an Olympian figure in scarlet gown , taking " absence " on the chapel steps ; the Fourth of June , a festival peculiar to Eton , and fireworks bursting over the river ; the Field Game on winter afternoons while mist crept across the grounds ; the lamps in the High Street and crowds of boys hurrying back to their houses before " lock-up " . |
| 3 | He stared towards the point where the light had been , wanting to see a darker shape on darkness . |
| 4 | In contrast with my wishful thinking of the day before , I now found it impossible to visualize anything after the moment when the lights would go out and the window of the block would be thrown open . |
| 5 | Although there was now little more than an hour to go , the actual moment when the lights would go out remained stubbornly remote . |
| 6 | One of the several things we would advise any visitor to San Gimignano to do is to be in its main square , Piazza della Cisterna , towards evening when the light of the setting sun tinges the buildings with delicate colours . |
| 7 | The day I was there was the still , silent kind of a winter day when the light clings to the skyline slowly moving round from east to south to west . |
| 8 | I looked at a block of sun on the platform where the light came through some missing roofing . |
| 9 | It was an emphatic display by Rangers on a night when the lights went out for all English interest in Europe . |
| 10 | Erm so we then moved back towards the doorway erm and then P C requested the persons in the bed to tell him where the light switch was , which a male voice told him the approximate area where the light switch was . |
| 11 | The room was full of darkness now , except for a bright triangle near the door where the light from the corridor fell . |
| 12 | It was that hour just before dawn when the light is at its trickiest , when the spirits of the quarry are at their lowest , the hour of the hunter . |
| 13 | Presumably the reason why the lights appear stationary while the " ghost " is seen to revolve is that during the duration of any light the stimulus from it is accompanied by fused after-images of the other three . |