Example sentences of "lights were [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lights were swung round , the Nagra tape recorder switched on and the camera hastily placed on its tripod and pointed . |
| 2 | Eight cars were illuminated , including car 3 of 1885 ( see p. 37 ) , and the lights were kept on for the rest of the season to enhance the scene . |
| 3 | The film lights were turned on and the crowd briefed about their imminent deaths in the ruckled black velvet . |
| 4 | Waddell says the old man must have known it was daylight when they left , as the house lights were turned off by Waddell at dawn … |
| 5 | If she opened them , she would n't see anything — once the lights were turned off down here , it was pitch-black . |
| 6 | The lights were turned off to keep the mosquitos away . |
| 7 | When the lights were turned out he began crying . |
| 8 | It was raining softly and , because it was early evening , lights were coming on around the airport . |
| 9 | Lights were coming on . |
| 10 | The evening shadows were lengthening , one or two lights were coming on in buildings across the city and the dark mass of the cathedral stood out sharply against the soft viridian sky . |
| 11 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 12 | The Verey lights were coming down , red , white and green right above us . |
| 13 | The sun was sinking in a red glow , the lights were coming out in Eldercombe Village . |
| 14 | Lights were running up and down the board . |
| 15 | Mr Woodward , being something of a railway buff , could n't help thinking that the lights were spread out as in the old non-corridor stock , three windows to each compartment , but there was no vague outline of a locomotive , just the lights , no shape of the carriages . |
| 16 | In the distance a mess of lights were spread out across the face of the night like a shovelful of glowing cinders , flickering and scintillating in the currents of air rising from the villages in the plain between . |
| 17 | As it was , the newsroom lights were snapped on and Stan came to investigate . |
| 18 | Barriers and warning lights were put up and further warning lights were placed a short distance away . |
| 19 | The lights were put out at 10pm because there were other mothers who 'd had babies and were pretty exhausted . |
| 20 | Then suddenly the whole scene was illuminated as the runway lights were switched on . |
| 21 | The lights were switched on and the harsh familiar outlines of beds , stools and tables forced me back into reality . |
| 22 | As soon as the camera lights were switched on , it triggered the churning emotions in her heart and she broke down and wept inconsolably . |
| 23 | But then , as night fell and the lights were switched on in the carriage , illuminating the sepia photographs of Morecambe Bay at dawn and donkeys trotting Blackpool sands , he felt his privacy was being invaded and had stopped making those conciliatory gestures . |
| 24 | At the same time , the forest path and road lights were switched on and lit up vast tracts of the Heide . |
| 25 | They 'd just walked full circle past the famous Tivoli lake with the much photographed and traditionally Danish Old Ferry Inn jutting out into its depths , and through the sunken garden , back to the bubble fountain , when the lights were switched on . |
| 26 | The lights were switched on , and Amaranth stood , illuminated for all to see . |
| 27 | She deliberately got a bit drunk at dinner and when the lights were switched out let her head fall on to his shoulder . |
| 28 | The guns opened up with a deafening roar , and immediately the lights were switched off . |
| 29 | The navigation lights were switched off but I could see the Cessna Skywagon flying steadily in the cold air . |
| 30 | Little lights were springing up in the woods as if the houses thus made apparent had been magicked into position on that instant . |