Example sentences of "lit [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The wild swan hurries high and noises loud/ with white neck peering to the evening cloud , ’ and ‘ Coy bum barrels [ long-tailed tits ] twenty in a drove/ lit down the hedgerows in the frozen plain/ and hang on little twigs and start again . ‘ |
| 2 | The light , a single bulb in an ethnic basket , was suspended from the ceiling and lit just the table . |
| 3 | A flare lit up the sky as Taff was talking , casting eerie shadows among the trees . |
| 4 | When a flash of lightning lit up the sky to the south we decided we 'd better go now ! |
| 5 | Another flash lit up the sky . |
| 6 | Her passenger said the car headlamps lit up the bike . |
| 7 | At one point , a flare lit up the night sky . |
| 8 | It lit up the night sky above the East End of Glasgow like a burning city that was never consumed , every night flaring up again and again with a distant tumult of mountains of slag and iron , drinking the cold air and casting their baleful glow on the clouds that spread over the Valley of Pandemonium . |
| 9 | You lit up the night with your beauty . ’ |
| 10 | I could only watch as the lightning lit up the windows and they struggled to get off that wall . ’ |
| 11 | A sudden glare from outside lit up the windows briefly . |
| 12 | And a star-shell lit up the winter night sky … |
| 13 | The headlights of the taxi-van behind us flashed as it hit bumps in the road and the interior lit up the faces of the men in the van with me . |
| 14 | Cantona , whose hat-trick lit up the Charity Shield at Wembley , had to be lectured by Wilkinson on the virtues of integrating into the English game . |
| 15 | Multiplied ten times , the arc of the galaxy lit up the cockpit , a silver veil across the void . |
| 16 | A dash of lightning lit up the inn sign . |
| 17 | An occasional shaft of sunlight penetrated the foliage and lit up the bronze trunks of the pines , touching them with fire . |
| 18 | The flames lit up the skyline but there was no sign of Mayne . |
| 19 | The stars lit up the scene , and the little black iron lamps that gleamed outside each villa , in perfect keeping with the traditional style of the architecture . |
| 20 | Then the angry dancing glare of fire lit up the darkness from further back along the main corridor . |
| 21 | The flame from a scarlet candle lit up the stubble darkening his chin and the even blacker rings under his eyes . |
| 22 | The first try lit up the ground in the 23rd minute and followed two surging drives . |
| 23 | Having done this , I noticed all the more the effect of the pale light coming into the room and the way it lit up the edges of my father 's craggy , lined , still awesome features . |
| 24 | To make matters worse , peculiar pinky glows of static electricity lit up the mastheads and rigging of the ship with an unearthly light . |
| 25 | A ray of sunlight came through the window and lit up the specks of snuff that had wafted from Fagg 's clothing as he sat down . |
| 26 | The moon lit up the roof of the breaking waves . |
| 27 | Lee switched on the torch and the beam lit up the stack-yard like a searchlight . |
| 28 | There was another roll of thunder , and once again the lightning lit up the garden and the surrounding trees . |
| 29 | The short burst from Silk 's Uzi lit up the bridge in a flickering light , showing its emptiness as the cat bucked and disintegrated in a shower of red pieces . |
| 30 | It seemed bigger than the sun and it sailed with a peculiar swiftness up into the heavens , growing paler and brighter as it did so until it lit up the plain with a dull , yellow light . |