Example sentences of "switched on in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monday morning : it was nearly ten o'clock but so grey and overcast that the light was switched on in the kitchen in Marie 's house . |
| 2 | The lights are switched on in the classrooms , Outside the sky 's nearly black , And the dinning-hall smells of gravy and fat And Chubb has boils down his back . |
| 3 | When customers complained , they were blithely informed that while Ma Rainey sang , an electric light had been switched on in the studio . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There was no sound of a light 's being switched on in the sitting room , but we might not have been able to hear it . |