Example sentences of "lights were [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Lights were on on the Kingston road bridge soaring over the murky river .
2 The day was faintly foggy ; lights were on on the tall hazy meccano sculptures of oil rigs moored in the Firth .
3 The lights were on over the airfield when we landed and ‘ Deemy ’ showed me to the Russian equivalent of the American B.O.Q. adjoining a very handsome and well-furnished Officers ' Lounge and Recreation Room .
4 The lights were on inside the hut .
5 The lights were on in a second and the usherette was at the screamer 's side .
6 The lights were on in all the houses up Maple Drive .
7 Lights were on in the primary school .
8 The lights were on in the office from which he commanded the Carabinieri Company covering the section of the city that lay south of the river Arno and a large tract of country going south through the Chianti hills to the borders of the Province of Siena .
9 When I parked the car at Woodside , I noticed the lights were on in the apartment next to mine .
10 No lights were on in any of the houses and the only living thing in sight was a brindled cat who froze on the pavement , surveyed the bleak October night , and padded arrogantly across the road .
11 Lights were on in the shops and houses as Rain and Oliver approached the Bar de la Marine .
12 The lights were on in the Incident Room .
13 Lights were on in all the rooms facing the front and the curtains were drawn .
14 The lights were off in the big drawing-room but someone had lit the logs which had been piled in the fireplace .
15 In other words , the lights were off in the living-room except for the strobes around the disco where a lonely DJ was pumping out Frankie Goes to Hollywood , and all the guests at the party were in the kitchen cluttering up the fake oak worksurfaces and obscuring the Neff oven .
16 The lights were off in the living-room , but the television was on and I was amused to see a little bluish-grey man talking seriously to the empty armchairs .
17 ‘ No point , our lights were out for a long time , they 'd just use that as an excuse .
18 Each night the teachers had to take turns checking that the students were in their dormitories , and the lights were out at an appropriate time .
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