Example sentences of "lights [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After all the Christmas lights remain up on the main street , and are still working . |
| 3 | Lights flashing on and off in my head . |
| 4 | lights flashing on and off , |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | Did the bright lights make up for the lack of country life ? |
| 7 | Lights rippled back and forth across all the surfaces of the Thing . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As the war proceeded , however , several started operating by night and with all the lights blacked out . |
| 11 | Lights flickered around on top of the Thing . |
| 12 | The lights flickered on and off for the last dance . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The lights flickered on and off . |
| 15 | The lights flickered on before Graham could do more than put his arms round her . |
| 16 | High on the wall of my room , near the open window , waiting for the lights to come on , a gecko is clinging on hopefully to the knobbly plaster . |
| 17 | Everyone goes into deep breathing exercises at the end with the lights turned off . |
| 18 | Two cars were moving towards the house , both with their lights turned off . |
| 19 | Beyond it , the mild night sky was busy with lights arrowing down into National airport and jinking up away from it , following the curls of the river so that if one fell , it would fall into that . |
| 20 | The first thing the lads noted when the stage lights came up was that the previewers ' obituaries for Pete Townshend are about as wide of the mark as a Birmingham City attack . |
| 21 | The lights came up and we were not in that magic world beyond the screen but back in the familiar tawdry surroundings of Sneinton , Notts . |
| 22 | When the lights came up the girl looked at the audience , her mouth slowly opened and on her face was an expression of incredulity . |
| 23 | As the lights came up I saw he was standing up straight and alert , with cubes of dried vomit decorating his cheeks . |
| 24 | When the lights came up and I turned to ask his reactions , I found him sitting speechless , tears coursing down his cheeks . |
| 25 | The assassins were shot , and Clara wrenched herself away , and the man murmured to her desperately , " Laschemi fare , laschemi fare , " and Clara equally stricken , could not let him , and the credits came up , and the lights came up , and he let her go , and she straightened her coat and pulled her skirt tightly down over her knees , and that was that . |
| 26 | The spotlight faded , and the house lights came up . |
| 27 | I could n't be certain but in the hubbub that followed ( shrieked squeaks and ‘ hahas ’ from the audience ) I thought I heard a definite mechanical ‘ click ’ , but when the stage lights came up again , nothing had happened . |
| 28 | At once the lights came up again . |
| 29 | The lights came up a little , and the show was over . |
| 30 | The house lights came up again . |