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Fue un movimiento ardiente de una llama que se prendía y se apagaba.	It was a burning movement of a flame that went in and out.
Cada vez que traigo a alguien a mi cama, se prendía el oso	Whenever I bring someone else into bed with me, it would turn on the bear.
Podía oír Su voz, pero era como una radio que se prendía y se apagaba.	I could hear His voice, but it was like a radio being turned on and off.
Después se rodeaba toda la pila de cadáveres con troncos, se vertía parafina y se prendía fuego.	Then the whole pile of corpses was surrounded with logs, paraffin was poured on and ignited.
También entregaron a los canales de televisión imágenes de pruebas de seguridad en que un sofá sin tratamiento se prendía rápidamente en llamas, mientras que un sofá tratado solo ardía.	They also provided television stations with dramatic footage of safety tests in which an untreated sofa quickly burst completely into flames, while a treated one only smoldered.
Sus pies parecían enraizados en el suelo por un hilo de energía que pasaba por lo alto de la cabeza, recorría todo el cuerpo y se prendía al suelo por los pies.	His feet seemed rooted on the ground by a thread of energy leaving from the top of his head crossing through the body and attached to the ground by his feet.
Sin embargo, sus asistentes y yo observamos que la luz de su cuarto se prendía después de que supuestamente todos estaban dormidos, y se apagaba un poco antes de que se despertaran en la casa.	His attendants and I, however, often observed that the light went on in his room after everyone was supposedly asleep and went off only a short while before the household awoke.
Llamé al informático porque no se prendía la pantalla.	I called the computer expert because the screen wouldn't turn on.
Los que tuvieron la oportunidad de verlo en el escenario recuerdan la pasión que ponia cada vez que se prendia a su bandoneon y realizaba el ritual de la representacion.	Those which had the chance to see it on scene, remember it, with this passion that it put each time that it took the instrument and achieved the ritual of the representation.