Example sentences of "lights go [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood waiting in the pre-dawn dark watching house lights go on . |
| 2 | The strong feeling of a presence is felt , lights go on and off , doors open and shut on their own , the shadow of a man 's head is sometimes seen ; but on recording sessions , many unnerving things can happen , heavy breathing down the musicians ' necks , brushing past people . |
| 3 | In the Mala Strana , the secretaries and the artists , the nurses and the busmen return to their apartments , the lights go on in the high windows , the courtyard below us is filling up with the smells of food and voices discussing — what ? |
| 4 | Oh nothing happens until the red lights go on do they ? |
| 5 | It 's pretty good cos when the lights go off I can see me and Marie in the window like it 's a mirror — and then when the lights come on , we disappear . |
| 6 | You 're surrounded by strangers , your dozy curiosity in their sayings and doings dimming as the house lights go down . |
| 7 | And then the lights go down . |
| 8 | He shows us to our seats , and there 's just time for Denice to switch off her portable phone before the lights go down . |
| 9 | Mercifully , the lights go down . |
| 10 | All these people want to do is hit someone before the lights go out . |
| 11 | My heart sinks and the lights go out : the carriage doors are mysteriously locked . |
| 12 | ‘ The moment those lights go out , ’ said Birkett , ‘ I 'm getting behind that stove and I 'm staying there until the whole shooting match is over ’ |
| 13 | One of the most common mistakes is beginning foreplay after the lights go out for the night . |
| 14 | After the lights go out , feed with a variety of foods — tablets , worms , chopped prawns , insect larvae , and snails . |
| 15 | I was still angry , but there was no point in pursuing what was over , so I went back topsides to trim the ship , and five minutes later I saw the stateroom lights go out , and half an hour after that the lights in Ellen and Robin-Anne 's cabin were doused , leaving only a light in the forward starboard cabin to show that either Rickie or Jackson Chatterton was still awake . |
| 16 | Lights go out for Leeds |
| 17 | Feed with a variety of foods — tablets , worms , chopped prawn , insect larvae , snails — after the lights go out . |
| 18 | You then gradually increase the fuel supply and warning lights go out , needles move into the green and you end up with the fuel control in the Flight position in its gate . |
| 19 | the lights go out and the guide will remind us |
| 20 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 21 | when the lights go out and the lying begins . |
| 22 | I do not want to return to a world in which the lights go out , there is no money in the country , we have to turn to the International Monetary Fund , and investment in the leading industries has to be cut back . |
| 23 | Or , imagine that the lights go out as Harry has just begun saying : ( 2 ) Listen , I 'm not disagreeing with you but with you , and not about this but about this Or , Suppose we find a bottle in the sea , and inside it a message which reads : ( 3 ) Meet me here a week from now with a stick about this big We do not know who to meet , where or when to meet him or her , or how big a stick to bring . |