Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [art] light " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking down the light and airy aisles of this superstore , one could be forgiven for mistaking the piles of Novell Netware for so many boxes of Monopoly piled high on the shelves . |
| 2 | And er , I thought I 'd probably have wall paper on that wall , you know , use , use the curtains just as plenty of fullness , but have them for keeping out the light or keeping in the heat , |
| 3 | Many people practice relaxation techniques , take a long soak in a bath of warm ( not hot or cold ) water , or have a quiet read in bed before turning out the light . |
| 4 | For the less rarified among us they are the things you press yourself between before turning out the light . |
| 5 | ‘ hooligans on housing estates causing disturbances in the common parts of blocks of flats , blockading entrances , throwing things down stairs , banging on doors , peering in at windows , and knocking over dustbins ; groups of youths persistently shouting abuse and obscenities or pestering people waiting to catch public transport or to enter a hall or cinema ; someone turning out the light in a crowded dance hall , in a way likely to cause panic ; rowdy behaviour in the streets late at night which alarms local residents . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Turning out the light . ’ |
| 7 | Perhaps , thought Leonora , turning out the light , she would never have learned the truth if Clem had n't written . |
| 8 | Say a prayer and light one of the candles each Sunday in Advent gradually building up the light as Christ 's coming draws nearer . |
| 9 | Switching on the light , she saw that he was fine . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | After switching on the light he sat down behind his solid oak desk … made , on his orders , from Bittsevsky oak … , opened his leather-bound diary and scanned the day 's agenda . |
| 12 | He showed them into the lounge and drew the threadbare curtains before switching on the light . |
| 13 | There was a bedroom to their left , at the front of the house , and Carson pushed open the opposite door and led the way through into the sitting-room , switching on the light as he went . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He left the room , switching off the light behind him . |
| 16 | Is he , by God ? thought Toby , firmly switching off the light . |
| 17 | Switching off the light , she followed Marc downstairs . |
| 18 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 19 | He uncovered his head only after switching out the light at bedtime . |
| 20 | While he held this vision in the trembling torchlight , the eyes opened and looked at him , reflecting back the light of his torch . |
| 21 | Moreover , it took twice as long to cook outside , with the wind often blowing out the light . |
| 22 | After a while she became more accustomed to the extreme dark and quite enjoyed blowing out the light and being swallowed up by the billowing darkness . |
| 23 | of the hearse door shutting out the light |
| 24 | The curtains were not drawn half across the window and so closing out the light as most curtains were wont to do , but were wide apart showing , of all things , a piece of grassland parched by the sun but , nevertheless , still giving evidence that it was grass by the strip in the shadow of the house . |
| 25 | Trying not to scream , she sat up and , without putting on the light , looked at the illuminated face of the alarm clock . |
| 26 | Without putting on the light , she slipped out of bed and tiptoed to the window . |
| 27 | Making her way to the bookcase , she was weighing up the possibility of reading the title spines without putting on the light when a table-lamp was clicked on at the other end of the room . |
| 28 | We went in , Connors flicking down the light switch . |
| 29 | He loomed over him , large , heavy and implacable , blocking out the light . |
| 30 | The belly continued to grow , blocking out the light . |