Example sentences of "[noun pl] light [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One year ’ — Māilo 's eyes lit up at the memory — ‘ I sold so many musk pods at the Indian border that I could hardly walk back , my pockets were so weighted down with silver coins . ’ |
| 2 | His eyes light up at the recollection of some of the challenges he has tackled that would have daunted the more faint-hearted . |
| 3 | As Britain 's biggest book printer , his eyes light up at the mention of Labour 's proposals for an extra £10 per primary school child for books . |
| 4 | My eyes light up at the sight of her even though she 's hitting me about the head , so to speak . |
| 5 | In the second part of his autobiography Ways of Escape , Graham Greene writes of an earlier period , ‘ … in Indo-China I drained a magic potion , a loving-cup which I have shared since with many retired colonels and officers of the Foreign Legion whose eyes light up at the mention of Saigon and Hanoi ’ . |