Preposition: at

• stop: If coming by bus, ask to alight at the stop across from Library Road on the Main Campus.

Object

• eye: My eyes alighted on this day in the early, still, warm light of dawn.

• bus: The victim, aged 19 alighted the bus in Camden Rd, near Brecknock Rd, N7.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• set: Britney has failed to set the charts alight with her comeback track Me Against The Music.

Modifying Another Word

• well: A film showed the room was well alight in 33 seconds.

• here: If you wish to alight here please advise the Guard at the previous station.

• still: UFO Balloons would create a fire risk if they descended whilst still alight.

• all: And he was as pleased as punch, he really was, wee face all alight.

• then: They steal and soar then alight on rooftops in the breeze.

Used with adjective complement

• catch: The unattended pan contained a wooden spoon which caught alight causing smoke to activate the smoke alarm.

• set: Mr Johnson's friend and employer, Jack Sheridan, was doused with gasoline and set alight on February 3, 1975.

Preposition: in

• office: Burnt asylum seeker dies An Iranian asylum seeker who set himself alight in the offices of a refugee charity in Manchester, has died.

Preposition: from

• bus: Driving down the road we stop at a side road and alight from the bus.

• train: You can also order assistance there to help you board, transfer and alight from the train.

• vehicle: Parents are advised not to allow children to alight from vehicles by themselves.