Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the light " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you tell me about the light fittings that you bought when you first got married . |
| 2 | He pushed me towards the light and through a door then took the scarf off my eyes . |
| 3 | Hoo-Woo pushed me towards the light . |
| 4 | ‘ I was just looking at you against the lights of the city , ’ she says . |
| 5 | The pair looked like every motorist 's bad news — the guys who leap out at you at the lights and demand money for wiping a dirty rag over your windscreen . |
| 6 | The cars that are always ahead of you at the lights . |
| 7 | It is only by bringing them into the light of day that we can assess their cogency . |
| 8 | We need to bring them into the light and recognise them so that we may dispatch them . ’ |
| 9 | On his return to the USA Horton decided that it was time to try out some of his ideas , and to test them with the light of practical experience . |
| 10 | In it coins and medals were set out on faded velvet pads and , at the back , there were cards of stamps displayed under amber polythene to protect them from the light . |
| 11 | ‘ You look like a couple of drowned rats , ’ said Mrs Wright , looking at them in the light of Philip 's torch . |
| 12 | As we praise God for all our circumstances , seeing them in the light of his presence and love , then we become literally ‘ thankful persons ’ , transfused by a new radiance of joy and thanksgiving . |
| 13 | However absurd these may seem in some respects , we have to read them in the light of the knowledge then available . |
| 14 | It is not that these judgements should not be made , but that where subjective judgements are made by the teacher she should be aware that this is so and be prepared , not only to give reasons for her judgements , but also to be sufficiently flexible to change them in the light of particular circumstances . |
| 15 | Once again the effort required to write the automatic test equipment test programmes and associated diagnostic tables often precludes updating them in the light of experience or after modifications . |
| 16 | Rather , as in social anthropology , it is possible to develop a dynamic model in which the student begins from the acute self-consciousness that his or her own concepts may be culture-specific at depths so far unexamined , and so starts out tentatively from them , being ready to revise them in the light of new ethnography . |
| 17 | During the automatic processing stage an attempt was made to locate the targets indicated by the cross-references , and so validate them , and , where necessary modify them in the light of changes made to entries during automatic integration . |
| 18 | The students find that the basic sciences ‘ make sense ’ when they come to revise them in the light of some clinical experience — as one student stated recently : ‘ It 's not so much revision as vision . ’ |
| 19 | Conversation can also provide them with one of the most effective means for trying out ideas and modifying them in the light of the feedback received . |
| 20 | The proper case is one where the administrator reasonably requires to see the documents to carry out his functions and the production does not impose an unnecessary and unreasonable burden on the person required to produce them in the light of the administrator 's requirements . |
| 21 | The tears were streaming down his face ; I could see them in the light from my room . |
| 22 | Then , when you return to your own room , you can look up the relevant pages and study them in the light of the explanations you have had . |
| 23 | erm , the thing about it is is that I mean , one of we we 've at the minute we 've been faced with with some individuals reckoning that they have er rashes forming around the face er in a number of areas and there 's an indication that , and it 's nothing more than that , that it could actually be to do with the laser printers and people sitting near them in the light . |
| 24 | With regard to China , they maintained the financial and other sanctions imposed in 1989 in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre , while agreeing to reconsider them in the light of future improvements concerning respect for human rights in particular . |
| 25 | The dynamic nature of phase equilibria can be understood by considering them in the light of the kinetic theory . |
| 26 | They are also warned of the need to be satisfied that the contract is suitable for them in the light of their circumstances and financial position . |
| 27 | The Panel found that the persons involved in the case were unlikely to comply with the standards expected in the conduct of UK takeovers and consequently reported its conclusions to the SIB , the SROs and RPBs for appropriate action by each of them in the light of their several cold shouldering rules . |
| 28 | Erm , and if if I can just , we will Treasurer and ourselves , be reporting to you in more detail on this , in the appropriate areas , but suffice it to say , that the government are accepting the need for further investigation on some of these issues , to look at some of them in the light of the national B U D report , on superannuation and pension arrangements generally , have nevertheless agreed that individual authorities ought to have some more discretion , and the compensation regulations that I mentioned earlier , is one example of that . |
| 29 | ‘ Take me to the light and look at my face . ’ |
| 30 | They were heavy and sparkled when she held them to the light , and she thought they were the most beautiful things she would ever own . |