Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] the window " in BNC.
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| 1 | a. a man and woman sitting in the living room + the woman sitting reading quite happily — the man 's bored goes to the window looks out the window + and gets himself ready and goes out + |
| 2 | and woman sitting in the living room … the man 's bored goes to the window looks out the window … and goes out + goes to his goes to a club + has a drink talks to the barman |
| 3 | This is a distinguished , elegant book , almost more ‘ Gothic ’ in style than Palladian , with the lunatic old Nanny , the collapsing conservatory , dismembered statuary , and all the cruel vagaries of the English weather : rain drips down the windows ‘ like gin ’ . |
| 4 | just stares out the windows right |
| 5 | By succumbing to the pressure to appear in such a publication ( why do it at all ? ) her ‘ control ’ goes out the window . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Being in love I think erm its not something that you have to end it happens to you , its not because er a terribly admire the person I er , your only achievements , its just something that happens and common sense goes out the window . |
| 8 | Once it happens we we , our credibility with our customers goes out the window does n't it ? |
| 9 | I believe your credibility goes out the window for a start . |
| 10 | Icon Hear-It is fun to use and certainly brightens up the Windows Desktop . |
| 11 | Icon Hear-It is fun to use and certainly brightens up the Windows Desktop . |
| 12 | Rain pours down the window panes of my London flat and I am reading the letters of black political prisoners in the country I was born in . |
| 13 | As the battlefield clears , Rainbow pulls up in front of the transfixed Riva , rolls down the window , and roars , ‘ Get in ! ’ |
| 14 | He likes the days when nothing seems to happen , and rain runs down the windows , and through somebody else 's windows on the other side of the airwell you can see girls with piles of lacquered hair laughing and making sudden small self-conscious movements , as they flirt with young men in Italian-cut suits , silent behind the layers of glass . |