Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] up [prep] [art] light " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while he opens his case , takes out a glass vial and holds it up to the light . |
| 2 | if you hold them up to the light then you see them |
| 3 | in the bottom of the cup , it just when you hold the cup up to the light , the picture comes through , you know it 's , the shape and the colours come through when you hold it up to the light |
| 4 | hold it up to the light |
| 5 | An eery echoing spiralling climb of 168 steps took me up to the light itself and 180 degree views stretching to hazy nothingness to the west and north ; Harris hills to the south-west ; the Cuillins of Skye to the south and the mainland mountains to the east . |
| 6 | He was polishing glasses and he held them up to the light to check them and thereby seemed to be ignoring Maidstone completely . |
| 7 | I pretended to find a smudge on the glasses , rinsed them , dried them and held them up to the light . |
| 8 | He drew out a sturdy transparent plastic inner bag and held it up to the light to show me the contents . |
| 9 | Miss Harker looked at it with distaste as if it were a species of repellent insect wriggling on a pin , then took it carefully between her finger and thumb and held it up to the light of the candle . |
| 10 | Kirov held it up to the light , studying it . |
| 11 | Wondering who had wrote it , Katherine turned the letter over in her hands , and then held it up to the light , looking for a watermark — anything which would indicate its origin . |
| 12 | When she held it up to the light she saw that a small circle of skin was inflamed . |
| 13 | The photographer pulled his roll of film from the camera and held it up to the light . |
| 14 | He held it up to the light to give a clearer view . |
| 15 | He picked up one of the envelopes and held it up to the light : the watermark showed the heraldic hybrid with which he was becoming familiar , with the wings of an eagle and the body of a lion . |