Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [art] light " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's wonderful when we come in to the light . |
| 2 | up to the lights |
| 3 | Doctor Staples held the x-ray up to the light . |
| 4 | But he could make out her form stretching up to the light . |
| 5 | He drew out a sturdy transparent plastic inner bag and held it up to the light to show me the contents . |
| 6 | Miss Harker looked at it with distaste as if it were a species of repellent insect wriggling on a pin , then took it carefully between her finger and thumb and held it up to the light of the candle . |
| 7 | In red brick and white stone , it had a façade of great length matched by a high tower which reached up to the light which its name celebrated . |
| 8 | He was polishing glasses and he held them up to the light to check them and thereby seemed to be ignoring Maidstone completely . |
| 9 | An eery echoing spiralling climb of 168 steps took me up to the light itself and 180 degree views stretching to hazy nothingness to the west and north ; Harris hills to the south-west ; the Cuillins of Skye to the south and the mainland mountains to the east . |
| 10 | I think I 'll have a beer tonight Knock , give the jake a rest , ’ said Yanto ‘ Suit yourself , ’ Knocker replied , and drew off a pint of bitter , which he held up to the light . |
| 11 | If I do not believe that caves hold the key to the future in ecology and evolution , I am certainly grateful that David Culver and his fellow biospeleologists continue to descend into those dangerous caves and bring up to the light so many biological discoveries . |
| 12 | I pretended to find a smudge on the glasses , rinsed them , dried them and held them up to the light . |
| 13 | He held the note up to the light , pretending to scrutinize it carefully . |
| 14 | Kirov held it up to the light , studying it . |
| 15 | Wondering who had wrote it , Katherine turned the letter over in her hands , and then held it up to the light , looking for a watermark — anything which would indicate its origin . |
| 16 | William left him holding his glass up to the light from the kitchen window and frowning slightly . |
| 17 | And they called me , and I crawled out , and there was this huge bear between me and my mother , very tall , sitting up the way they do , as tall as … all the way up to the light fitting . |
| 18 | When she held it up to the light she saw that a small circle of skin was inflamed . |
| 19 | The photographer pulled his roll of film from the camera and held it up to the light . |
| 20 | Mr Pumblechook held his glass up to the light , smiled importantly at it and drank it . |
| 21 | Mounce held the note up to the light , as if looking for a watermark . |
| 22 | He held it up to the light to give a clearer view . |
| 23 | After a while he opens his case , takes out a glass vial and holds it up to the light . |
| 24 | She barely had time to struggle to her feet before cruel fingers tangled in her hair and her face was jerked up to the light . |
| 25 | The woods beyond the rectory garden consisted mainly of beech trees , very tall , as though sending their branches up to the light . |
| 26 | Zen held the X-rays up to the light . |
| 27 | He picked up one of the envelopes and held it up to the light : the watermark showed the heraldic hybrid with which he was becoming familiar , with the wings of an eagle and the body of a lion . |
| 28 | Benjamin held the pin up to the light , staring at these scrapings . |
| 29 | held up to the light . |
| 30 | if you hold them up to the light then you see them |