Example sentences of "[adv] at the windows " in BNC.

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1 He made his way round the side of the house , peering in at the windows , noting that some dishes , though washed , had been left on the draining board .
2 The sun was streaming in at the windows of her room .
3 Theda came to herself to find that she lay in a large four-poster bed , with the curtains drawn back , and the weak autumn sun coming in at the windows .
4 He stared up at the windows and then caught sight of the pulpit .
5 He slipped quietly in and glanced up at the windows and walls until his attention was drawn to a mop of fair hair sticking out from behind one of the back pews .
6 She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor .
7 Then Bunny , battling his way against the flow of the children , appeared in the hall and halted for a moment , the belt of his mackintosh undone , looking up at the windows of the rehearsal room .
8 I like it because it 's old , and grey , and dark , and yet I hate — ’ He did not finish what he was saying , staring angrily up at the windows on the top floor of his house .
9 ‘ Yes , ’ he replied , looking up at the windows of the house .
10 He looked up at the windows of the house .
11 He did not say that a week ago the boy had been standing under the monkey-puzzle in the middle of the night , looking up at the windows of the house .
12 She said she wanted Timothy Gedge to stop looking up at the windows of the house .
13 He glanced up at the windows of the three handsome houses .
14 I look up at the windows .
15 I stop for a moment at my gate and look up at the windows of my house .
16 Rain lashed noisily at the windows .
17 In the Fens , mothers abandoned their children ‘ swimming in their beds , till good people , adventuring their lives , went up to the breast in the waters to fetch them out at the windows ’ .
18 She glanced nervously at the windows , wondering how they 'd hold out against fiercer gusts than those already battering the house .
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