Example sentences of "[art] light were [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The lights were on over the airfield when we landed and ‘ Deemy ’ showed me to the Russian equivalent of the American B.O.Q. adjoining a very handsome and well-furnished Officers ' Lounge and Recreation Room .
2 The lights were on inside the hut .
3 The lights were on in the office from which he commanded the Carabinieri Company covering the section of the city that lay south of the river Arno and a large tract of country going south through the Chianti hills to the borders of the Province of Siena .
4 When I parked the car at Woodside , I noticed the lights were on in the apartment next to mine .
5 The lights were on in the Incident Room .
6 The lights were off in the big drawing-room but someone had lit the logs which had been piled in the fireplace .
7 In other words , the lights were off in the living-room except for the strobes around the disco where a lonely DJ was pumping out Frankie Goes to Hollywood , and all the guests at the party were in the kitchen cluttering up the fake oak worksurfaces and obscuring the Neff oven .
8 The lights were off in the living-room , but the television was on and I was amused to see a little bluish-grey man talking seriously to the empty armchairs .
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