Indicative Present (simple): Bruno Delavigne always alights from the train at the Montmartre station with the quiet reverence of someone returning to a sacred place.
Indicative Present progressive / continuous: The noseless perfumer is alighting from a cable car in San Francisco, briefcase in one hand and a surfboard wax block in the other.
Indicative Past (simple): Horatio Oléré alighted from the helicopter first and held the door open as Bruno stepped out onto the Delavigne Corporation rooftop.
Indicative Past progressive / continuous: Bruno was alighting from the overnight bus in Pamplona when a fellow bull-runner recognized him and shouted his name across the square.
Indicative Present perfect (simple): The grandson of Xavier has alighted at this particular Paris station every year since childhood, always pausing to think of his grandfather.
Indicative Present perfect progressive / continuous: Bruno has been alighting at San Francisco International so frequently that the gate staff now greet him by name without checking his boarding pass.
Indicative Past perfect: By the time the Delavigne Corporation driver arrived at the curb, Bruno had already alighted from the taxi and disappeared into the crowd.
Indicative Past perfect progressive / continuous: Bruno had been alighting from various trains across Europe for three weeks before Horatio finally convinced him to book a flight home to San Francisco.
Indicative Future: The bull-runner will alight from the first train into Pamplona next July, ready to sprint through the streets as he does every year.
Indicative Future progressive / continuous: At dawn tomorrow, Bruno will be alighting from the early ferry to the bay, his surfboard tucked under his arm and the Pacific mist in the air.
Indicative Future perfect: By the time the environmental summit ends, Bruno will have alighted from more eco-conscious trains than any other CEO in the beauty industry.
Indicative Future perfect progressive / continuous: By the anniversary of Xavier's workshop, Bruno will have been alighting at the old Montmartre stop every single year for three decades.
Conditional Simple: The perfumer would alight at a different station in Paris if the one nearest his grandfather's old shop weren't so impossibly dear to him.
Conditional Progressive: Right now, Bruno would be alighting from a chartered boat off the California coast if the Delavigne Corporation board meeting hadn't run four hours over schedule.
Conditional Perfect: Bruno would have alighted at the wrong stop had Horatio Oléré not called at exactly the right moment to warn him he was half-asleep.
Conditional Perfect progressive: Without the fragrance fire prevention conference in Lyon, Bruno would have been alighting in Pamplona a full three days earlier than planned.
Imperative Imperative: "Alight here, Horatio — this is the Montmartre stop, and I will not have you missing it again," Bruno called from the platform.
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