Example sentences of "[prep] light [vb past] [prep] [art] " 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 A funnel of light fell from a circular ceiling hole , drawing attention to the skeleton of an ornate spiral staircase .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 The tiny beam of light flickered over the telephone — and back .
9 A different sort of light flickered in the distance , and Doyle crouched down , squinting as he sought for shape and identity in the night .
10 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 .
11 Spirals of light danced on the walls of the basement as he started down .
12 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 .
13 A tiny point of light shone from the centre of its forehead .
14 A point of light shone from the centre of its forehead .
15 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 .
16 When the first shaft of light showed at the end of the tunnel it was like waking from a nightmare .
17 A faint sliver of light showed along the bottom of the door on his right .
18 A flicker of light showed in the heavy-lidded eyes .
19 Slivers of light showed around the door .
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