Example sentences of "[adv prt] the window [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy wound down the window of her car and held her face up . |
| 2 | I wound down the window of the car and shouted after the woman , ‘ Kilturk ? ’ |
| 3 | My second brother and I , self-conscious teenagers of the Sixties , were sometimes embarrassed when she wound down the window of her car and addressed a shepherd or a forester in her clear , carrying , Edwardian accent . |
| 4 | Yeah , and rubbing it all down the window with my cardi . |
| 5 | We were not reassured when a solitary American tourist travelling on the same flight told us he 'd been on this very plane on a previous flight , and they found petrol pouring down the window before take-off , and had to do some repair work on it . |
| 6 | A man emerged from a nearby tobacconist 's , lit his pipe , and threw down the lighted match , causing an explosion which blew out the windows of the Bank . |
| 7 | 4 The work of artist Ilana Richardson evokes the intense colour the Mediterranean where cobalt-blue shutters pick out the windows of white-washed houses . |
| 8 | Rudimentary Mafiosi , such as Franco Ambrosio , who was shortly to be a founding member of Jackie Oliver 's and Alan Rees 's Arrows team , an egregious former self-styled gun-runner and mercenary later gaoled for escaping up Holland Park Avenue throwing bags of cocaine out the windows of his car , floated around on the edge of those early South American season-openers , the former offering fantastic deals ( on which he rarely delivered ) and the latter procuring the kind of girls that racing drivers can relax with . |
| 9 | At one point I see Andy standing staring out the windows of the lounge , towards the dark loch , his eyes wide . |
| 10 | It wrecked a Mercedes-Benz car driving in front of the bus and blew out the windows of the bus , which then crashed into the back of the Mercedes . |
| 11 | It blew out the windows of the bus , which crashed into the back of the Mercedes . |
| 12 | Of course , these are not the same sort of friends that she might have met on her débutante rounds or at Royal Ascot , but as she says , social class goes out the window beyond the prison walls . |
| 13 | He leapt and took out the window to the President 's bedroom with his left shoulder . |
| 14 | I , standing on my tiptoes I could n't see out the window to , to look out to the stage erm , and there was a huge step up , it was about that , which was great for people 's bad backs and if you got up on that , erm then you sat on top of a very high cocktail chair , in fact one of our people had to kneel on top of the high cocktail chair , to look , to see down , over the window , down to the stage and they did n't give us a sound feed which would sound familiar |
| 15 | He had looked out the window of his hotel that morning , seen the rain , thought of the day that lay ahead of him and none of it any more seemed worthwhile . |
| 16 | I keep squinting out the window of the 188 bus to recognize where it was we hid Patterson . |
| 17 | I believe your credibility goes out the window for a start . |
| 18 | Are you gon na watch out the window for Susan ? |
| 19 | There are few more poignant sights than a group of people who are desperate to walk up a mountain , standing with their hands in pockets and feet in slippers , gazing out the window at weather that looks like television interference . |
| 20 | ‘ You want a convertible in weather like this ? ’ she asked incredulously , gazing out the window at the cold ( but sunny ) October morning . |
| 21 | Sebastian was looking out the window at the racehorses in the Curragh . |
| 22 | His parents Kang and Bi explained how little Sheng spent his days looking out the window at the other children playing , knowing he could n't take part . |
| 23 | Suffice to say Kennel Club standards will be out the window on Top Dog Day . |