Example sentences of "[adv prt] through the windows " in BNC.
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| 1 | They walked briskly over to the two cars and Plumpton bent down and peered in through the windows of the Mini . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I used to walk past it and peep in through the windows and think how much I 'd love to live there , ’ she confesses . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Bees fly in through the windows on hot afternoons , zig-zag across the house , and disappear through the open front door . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | The sun was slanting in through the windows and heating the place up . |
| 8 | Afterwards I sit with him in the room at the back , the late afternoon light still coming in through the windows . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When Caroline awakened , the sun was streaming in through the windows . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Joseph looked out through the windows and saw three small Annamese children dressed in traditional silk tunics like their parents walking on the lawns below the terrace in the company of a plainly garbed Annamese servant . |
| 14 | ‘ Can we watch telly please ? ’ she said automatically , glancing out through the windows at Alan . |