Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the window " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , it failed to smother the flames but travelled on through the window , coming to rest on Mr Singh 's Bentley , causing an estimated £567 worth of damage . |
| 2 | They walked briskly over to the two cars and Plumpton bent down and peered in through the windows of the Mini . |
| 3 | When Rosalind and Philip first moved in , it was in a pretty parlous condition , with , amongst other nightmares , an elder tree with its roots in the great hall and its branches spreading in through the windows . |
| 4 | ‘ I used to walk past it and peep in through the windows and think how much I 'd love to live there , ’ she confesses . |
| 5 | As in the novel , the figures carved above the fireplace , the portraits on the wall , assume a macabre life of their own as the setting sun streams in through the windows . |
| 6 | Bees fly in through the windows on hot afternoons , zig-zag across the house , and disappear through the open front door . |
| 7 | ‘ But I think it is a pointless exercise , ’ said Floy , somewhere towards morning , a thin , cold light filtering in through the windows to where he sat at a great desk , his black hair tumbled , hollows in his cheeks , his face white with fatigue . |
| 8 | The sun was slanting in through the windows and heating the place up . |
| 9 | Afterwards I sit with him in the room at the back , the late afternoon light still coming in through the windows . |
| 10 | I stopped in the lane for a moment , as I often do , before I climbed the steps to the front door , and looked in through the windows . |
| 11 | Slowly struggling up from the depths of deep unconsciousness , Laura flicked open her eyelids , only to shut them firmly again as she winced at the brilliant sunshine flooding in through the windows of the bedroom . |
| 12 | When Caroline awakened , the sun was streaming in through the windows . |
| 13 | Damian stood against the sunlight flooding in through the windows , his hands thrust in his grey trouser pockets , the silver watch-chain across his powerful chest reflecting light . |
| 14 | Philip jumped up to see if he could get a look in through the window . |
| 15 | In one case the Divisional Court held that assault was committed where a woman was frightened by the sight of a man looking in through the window of her house , although there seems to have been little suggestion that the man was threatening to apply force either immediately or at all . |
| 16 | However we were relieved ( though not as much as he ) to see his face , grinning inanely , as he climbed back in through the window . |
| 17 | ‘ It came right in through the window . |
| 18 | The light poured in through the window of our room . |
| 19 | The Vicar 's wife , who had parked on a yellow line while her gay husband went into the shop to get a treacle tart , got such a shock when Wayne stuck his big , hairy white face in through the window that she jumped out and ran away . |
| 20 | Lee remembered when a sparrow had flown in through the window of her bedroom when she was a child . |
| 21 | The sun , slanting in through the window , showed up the faded shabbiness of the room , but outside the treetops were golden and the bees were loud in the roses . |
| 22 | Catching them was a simple procedure of setting up a wire-mesh peat basket , held up at one side by a stick , with a string attached which led in through the window . |
| 23 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 24 | In the summer , with the sun slanting in through the window , with the deep tan wallpaper , and the overall colour scheme of tan and creams , it looked lovely , but in the depths of winter it looked vaguely soiled , and depressingly dull . |
| 25 | When he shut the door of her taxi twenty minutes later he leant in through the window . |
| 26 | A little grey light was coming in through the window . |
| 27 | He 'd scattered a few items around the place so that anybody looking in through the window would get the impression that the owner was in residence but out for the day or the evening : a box of tissues and some magazines in the main room , a half-empty bottle of fresh milk and some crockery draining in the kitchen . |
| 28 | At the same time a balaclava-masked soldier rolled in through the window where the stun grenade had come from , his Kalashnikov automatic aimed at the dummy that stood by the opposite window . |
| 29 | Tick crept in through the window of the dining-room and surprised Lady Laetitia Winthrop playing at her virginals ( a likely story ) . |
| 30 | They could not open the door , so they climbed down from the roof and got in through the window . |