Example sentences of "lights [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the box is switched on all the lights flash together . |
| 2 | There he was , a chunky 47-year-old manic depressive with grey sideburns , wearing a blue shirt and tan waistcoat , with the stage lights reflecting off his sunglasses , singing his heart out , playing guitar , alto sax and harmonica , and thoroughly enjoying himself . |
| 3 | After all the Christmas lights remain up on the main street , and are still working . |
| 4 | They sat in the back of the Dacia for the drive from Otopeni Airport to the outskirts of the city , holding hands and staring at the lights flashing past . |
| 5 | Lights flashing on and off in my head . |
| 6 | lights flashing on and off , |
| 7 | Just as you were getting to like a track he would tune it out periodically , a vehicle would come the other way , its lights flashing furiously . |
| 8 | If buoy 732 flashes every 8 seconds and 733 flashes every 10 seconds , what is the interval of time between the lights flashing together ? |
| 9 | Lights glowed dimly through the woodland . |
| 10 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |
| 11 | Did the bright lights make up for the lack of country life ? |
| 12 | Three Lumiance Ballstar ceiling lights given even lighting , while lights under the wall units illuminate worksurfaces . |
| 13 | At 0800 hours Guiding Lights steamed slowly into Millbay Docks at Plymouth flying the blue " under arrest " ensign and escorted by the cutters . |
| 14 | Lights rippled back and forth across all the surfaces of the Thing . |
| 15 | The lights rippled smoothly across the Thing . |
| 16 | But she could n't forget , as the lights twinkled on around the entire hillside , that this man owned them all , every last apartment , every cypress , every swimming-pool and tennis court . |
| 17 | Unprofessionally , I looked up , to see the iron net of the scaffolding bending , swaying and finally tipping towards me as bolts snapped and lights crashed down on to the floor of the stage . |
| 18 | As the war proceeded , however , several started operating by night and with all the lights blacked out . |
| 19 | He just stood there and the lights changed again . |
| 20 | Lights flickered around on top of the Thing . |
| 21 | The lights flickered briefly as the train entered a tunnel . |
| 22 | The lights flickered on and off for the last dance . |
| 23 | The lights flickered on and off , illuminating others bustling back and forth , too busy in their own rush for the exits to bother with the intruders . |
| 24 | The lights flickered on and off . |
| 25 | The lights flickered on before Graham could do more than put his arms round her . |
| 26 | The strip lights flickered again , providing the faintest luminescence . |
| 27 | On clear nights these same skies held us spellbound as Northern Lights flickered eerily and changed colour like some celestial cinema curtain . |
| 28 | Thunder rolled and grumbled beyond , and the eerie blue glow from the overhead strip lights flickered momentarily . |
| 29 | Right at the top , the coloured lights flickered feebly , hardly visible from the beach below . |
| 30 | as if on cue , the lights flickered then came back on . |