Example sentences of "on the light [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You plug it in when you go away and it switches on the light for you at the same time every evening , and switches it off too . |
| 2 | She stayed near him till he slept , went out into the dark hall , switched on the light with pride and with the knowledge of what that little act meant , what it had cost , would cost ; she pressed a tiny switch on the wall , and electrons obediently flowed through cables , because the woman in the Electricity had so ordered it |
| 3 | Hassan Hamdan , aged seven , was shot in the head by a sniper when he switched on the light at his bedroom in Mossaitbeh , a poor residential district controlled by Amal . |
| 4 | I switched on the light in the bedroom . |
| 5 | I switched on the light in the hall . |
| 6 | I stepped forward and switched on the light in the kitchen . |
| 7 | I did not switch on the light in case it should dazzle her . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The frown was back between his eyes as I put on the light in my room . |
| 10 | Behind him , Ilse switched on the light in the kitchen . |
| 11 | She watched him as he switched on the light by the bed and drew the curtains . |
| 12 | He switched on the light before holding up the picture for Wycliffe 's inspection . |