Example sentences of "light [was/were] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and Alan 's light was on in the hall , call it the hall and the car was there well a little while later he went . |
| 2 | Lights were on on the Kingston road bridge soaring over the murky river . |
| 3 | The day was faintly foggy ; lights were on on the tall hazy meccano sculptures of oil rigs moored in the Firth . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The lights were on inside the hut . |
| 6 | The lights were on in a second and the usherette was at the screamer 's side . |
| 7 | Lights were on in the primary school . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When I parked the car at Woodside , I noticed the lights were on in the apartment next to mine . |
| 10 | Lights were on in the shops and houses as Rain and Oliver approached the Bar de la Marine . |
| 11 | The lights were on in the Incident Room . |
| 12 | The lights were off in the big drawing-room but someone had lit the logs which had been piled in the fireplace . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ No point , our lights were out for a long time , they 'd just use that as an excuse . |
| 16 | Each night the teachers had to take turns checking that the students were in their dormitories , and the lights were out at an appropriate time . |
| 17 | No the li the lights was on in the tunnel . |