Example sentences of "[prep] light [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ribbons of light spoked across the alley , glimmering through the interstices of an unfurled bamboo blind stretched across an entrance . |
| 2 | I paused at one of the few spots where a bright streak of light fell across the boards and , as she approached , said : ‘ Ah , Miss Kenton . ’ |
| 3 | Katherine Lundy opened her son 's bedroom door less than an hour later , the bar of light fell across the sprawled figure of Patrick , the sheets rumpled and curled around him . |
| 4 | At intervals , splashes of light fell across the path , giving it a striped appearance . |
| 5 | It must be late , there was an eerie splash of light , a bar across the taps and the edge of the table — the moon had moved to the gap between the two houses opposite , to a position where a finger of light came through the kitchen window . |
| 6 | A degree of light emanated from the silently hurtling water , which she felt as a force urging her forward , as though she were in its grip and swept along with it . |
| 7 | The tiny beam of light flickered over the telephone — and back . |
| 8 | A different sort of light flickered in the distance , and Doyle crouched down , squinting as he sought for shape and identity in the night . |
| 9 | In the dusk , the street lamps illuminated the long riverside walk , and patches of light danced on the Thames in the clearness of the evening . |
| 10 | Spirals of light danced on the walls of the basement as he started down . |
| 11 | Before the financial axe fell in 1976 , occasional shafts of light shone through the darkening sky : the old women 's prison at Holloway was demolished and replaced on the same site by a completely new prison stressing medical supervision ; whilst at Grendon Underwood the Prison Service pioneered a special establishment for the treatment and management of mentally abnormal offenders who had been sentenced to imprisonment . |
| 12 | A tiny point of light shone from the centre of its forehead . |
| 13 | A point of light shone from the centre of its forehead . |
| 14 | But the lines of light glittered on the carved glassy flowers and formed a bright hazy enveloping pattern with the triangles of round mandarins , the crisscross of orange peel , Marcus 's fine polyhedrons in the tree , the changing firelight itself . |
| 15 | When the first shaft of light showed at the end of the tunnel it was like waking from a nightmare . |
| 16 | A faint sliver of light showed along the bottom of the door on his right . |
| 17 | A flicker of light showed in the heavy-lidded eyes . |
| 18 | Slivers of light showed around the door . |