Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [art] light " in BNC.
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| 1 | I clenched out the light and stuck my fingers in my ears . |
| 2 | It was 17 days since he had last locked the door of his office , turned down the lights , and unscrewed the cap of his walking stick , and heard Dr Tariq and Professor Khan discuss a series of meetings in Europe . |
| 3 | We turned out the lights and opened the shutters and the windows . |
| 4 | Then they turned out the lights , the great brass chandelier with its false candles , and the moon 's lemony radiance lay as still as cloths draped over the shining wood . |
| 5 | Richard , whom they had left counting to a hundred by the mains switch in the hall , turned out the lights . |
| 6 | ‘ And I could n't see , so we could n't do any more the things we used to — just little things , like watching the sunset , or laughing at a holopic when we turned out the lights in bed , or me reading a poem to her . |
| 7 | He let me go up and made me sit on the divan and he put on some music and turned out the lights and the moon came through the window . |
| 8 | ‘ They turned out the lights , which would slow the snake down , so they could pick it up without it biting , and they shut the sliding doors behind them . ’ |
| 9 | He felt stiff when he got up from the chair and turned out the light and groped his way through the still open doorway to the bed , shedding his clothes on to the floor . |
| 10 | She turned out the light and reaching for a pitchfork crept towards the tack room . |
| 11 | Anthea turned out the light and stretched full length on the bed . |
| 12 | Then I turned out the light and settled at the window amidst the bottle-brush fronds of monkey-puzzle . |
| 13 | But anyway , I put the pills and the gin firmly aside , turned out the light again , and tried to go to sleep . |
| 14 | She turned out the light . |
| 15 | Trusting virgins drafted into marriage never found Nature had all the answers when they turned out the light . |
| 16 | Almost at once she came back into the kitchen , turned out the light , and left the flat . |
| 17 | Marion put the pad on the bedside table and turned out the light . |
| 18 | She reached over and turned out the light , sick with disappointment to find she was no wiser about her identity than the night before . |
| 19 | For answer Penry picked her up and tossed her into the bed , stripped off his dressing-gown and turned out the light . |
| 20 | She ran the tip of her tongue over her lips , heard the sharp hiss of Penry 's intake of breath , then his head blotted out the light as his mouth met hers in a kiss which shot a jolt of electricity through every vein in her body . |
| 21 | The earth locked out the light , |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Evelyn reached over his shoulder , switched on a light , and gasped . |
| 24 | She switched on the lights , dumped her bag on the table and turned to him abruptly . |
| 25 | ‘ Any particular section ? ’ asked Hayman as he switched on the lights . |
| 26 | Eloise switched on the lights . |
| 27 | He switched on the lights and drove down the tank paths towards the front gate . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Josie switched on the lights for the department 's makeup mirror , and Lucy winced as the brightness hit her . |
| 30 | Indoors , she flicked the rain from her hair and switched on the lights . |