Example sentences of "[vb past] to the window " in BNC.
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| 1 | She moved to the window and stared out towards the sea , the moon lit the bay with pure light , the craggy rocks of Mumbles stood out dark against the sky . |
| 2 | He thrust his hands into his pockets and moved to the window , staring out into the sun-dappled drive flanked by swaying trees . |
| 3 | She rose and moved to the window and stared out into the silent square . |
| 4 | Bernard dug his hands into the pockets of his dressing-gown and moved to the window where he stared across the lawn at the empty swimming pool . |
| 5 | He moved to the window , walking with a pronounced limp on his left leg , the result of a shrapnel wound in the last days of the Korean War . |
| 6 | Bailey got to his feet and moved to the window . |
| 7 | Laidlaw moved to the window and tweaked the edge of the curtains . |
| 8 | She moved to the window and watched it pull up . |
| 9 | Her mind ran on the wedding celebrations as she moved to the window where a stray shaft of sunlight , escaping through the thick cloud , threw a beam across the parquet floor . |
| 10 | Instead she moved to the window and stood with her back towards Lucy . |
| 11 | She moved to the window , looked down at the wasteland garden . |
| 12 | Alan moved to the window . |
| 13 | Those who could moved to the window and looked with shocked surprise at fires , fed by municipal deck chairs and the contents of thousands of bin bags , blazing along the Promenade . |
| 14 | She switched off the lamp and moved to the window . |
| 15 | She moved to the window . |
| 16 | Suddenly she could n't sit still any longer , and jumping up , she paced to the window of her sitting-room and peered out . |
| 17 | He stood up and paced to the window , his back to her . |
| 18 | She came to the window when he pressed the button on the entryphone , poking her head out of the lower half of the opened sash window , through dark brown curtains . |
| 19 | She dived down the first alleyway , until she came to the window beside the white door with the red strip on the step . |
| 20 | Marc swivelled when he came to the window , his black shape outlined against the dying embers of the sun and his face in shadow . |
| 21 | Then , as she watched , a light came on in one of the upper rooms , and she shifted uneasily as she recognised Luke as he came to the window and looked out . |
| 22 | He gestured to the window and Claudia saw that a display of rings was next to the ornaments she admired . |
| 23 | Morton strolled to the window and watched the unending procession of cabs and carts , two-horse vans and omnibuses . |
| 24 | Gathering up the eiderdown and drawing it round his shoulders , Mungo tiptoed to the window over the cold lino . |
| 25 | Without putting on the light , she slipped out of bed and tiptoed to the window . |
| 26 | She got out of bed , slipped on her dressing gown and tiptoed to the window . |
| 27 | Chesarynth tiptoed to the window , curious now as to what lay outside . |
| 28 | ‘ We found him in bed in his study , his face turned to the window , where the sun came streaming in through flowering plants … |
| 29 | She turned to the window , and her heart leapt as she saw the grey line of the sea . |
| 30 | Nathan turned to the window . |