Example sentences of "lights went [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time , the lights went up on the slipper-fight . |
| 2 | All of us that is except uncle Eugenio , who had never been to see a film , saying that it was a fraud , all illusion , and that when the lights went up and all the characters disappeared the screen was no more than a rag . |
| 3 | But our real kick came at the end of the film when the lights went up . |
| 4 | The visitors were having a great time until suddenly the lights went up and bar staff started howling , ‘ Give us your pots and glasses and start moving on out , PLEASE ! ’ . |
| 5 | As the film ended and the lights went up , Nicholson got a surprising reaction . |
| 6 | When it was over , and the house lights went up , there was a sort of bemused smile on the collective face of the audience . |
| 7 | He kissed her fervently and they stayed that way until the lights went up and the usherettes began moving down the aisles with their trays of icecream . |
| 8 | Then the lights went up and I saw the chucker-out standing over us . |
| 9 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 10 | The lights went up and a picture of the confectionery kiosk appeared on the screen . |
| 11 | As it got closer , its lights went up to full beam . |
| 12 | As dark fell , street lights went on in the square and many demonstrators lit paper torches . ’ |
| 13 | He 'd be talking to some man all evening , they 'd be getting on very well indeed as far as we could all see , but then Miss P would still be there alone when the lights went on , and the man would have gone . |
| 14 | When the lights went on five minutes later , we were still all lying on the floor . |
| 15 | But then I thought ‘ Driven By You … ’ and ping ! the lights went on ; I thought of it as the power struggle that goes on in relationships . |
| 16 | Lights went on in the darkened boardroom . |
| 17 | The lights went on ; we leapt up and pounced on them , adding our howls of ingrate triumph to the general confusion — ending the happy myth not with a whimper but a bang , while Addy , the fellow-conspirator , leant against the wall and laughed herself to helplessness … |
| 18 | The village started half-alive about her , lights went on in some windows , then off again as the daylight strengthened . |
| 19 | The lights went on , but the music and dancing continued . |
| 20 | The lights went on . |
| 21 | And when the lights went on again in Belfast in 1945 General Eisenhower , later President , was a guest in the Royal Box . |
| 22 | Nobody had told me what a cinema or a film was , and certainly nothing about the concept of an animated cartoon ; and I was taken into the largest enclosed space I 'd ever seen , into a crowd of strangers , put on a seat , and the lights went out . |
| 23 | Then , unless gangsters broke in and disturbed them , they lay down and the screen went hazy , then the lights went out . |
| 24 | In mid-afternoon the lights went out . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ There was a huge noise like thunder and all the lights went out . |
| 26 | He said that moments before he heard the explosion all the street lights and office lights went out . |
| 27 | Insp Michael Tinsley said : ‘ A criminal minority seized their opportunity when the lights went out . ’ |
| 28 | He opened his mouth to say something else , but before he could , the lights went out . |
| 29 | Ryan had just said : ‘ O.K ’ you can bring the ladder out now , ’ when all the lights went out . |
| 30 | As there were no accumulators on the train the lights went out if the engine uncoupled from the train . |