Example sentences of "from [art] windows [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Midnight turned as the Captain moved through light beams spreading from the windows across the yard . |
| 2 | Sunlight streamed in from the windows above the gallery , bathing the polished panels of the walls in a warm glow . |
| 3 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 4 | Individuals were seen jumping from the windows of the buildings straggling the French and Soviet sectors of the city before they could be bricked up . |
| 5 | Soft lights glowed from the windows of the shops in Wine Street . |
| 6 | She sheltered in a summer-house twenty metres from the windows of the music room . |
| 7 | From the windows of my room I saw all London lying in the distance like a great vapour , with here and there some lights twinkling through it . ’ |
| 8 | It was a curious comment , when he would have already known that a Conservative Party election broadcast , The Journey , would show him rediscovering his south London roots from the windows of his prime ministerial limo . |
| 9 | The views across the Weald from the windows of this coach are impressive as the train trundles towards Horstead Keynes and beyond . |
| 10 | The area can boast its own teenage gangs , named after the Los Angeles Crips and Bloods , who carry Uzis and specialise in shooting from the windows of moving cars . |
| 11 | Our first glimpse of the islands , from the windows of the Royal Air Force Tri-star airliner , gave an almost tropical impression , with light brown plains and hills and beaches of pure white sand , all surrounded by an azure sea . |
| 12 | Only from the windows of a derelict tower block squatted by women was there any deliberately hostile response . |
| 13 | Jane Austen may seem in Sense and Sensibility to join with Edward in preferring cottages in good repair , even at the cost of the picturesque ; but on another occasion , in Northanger Abbey , she appears to side with Catherine , who is so delighted by the view of ‘ a sweet little cottage ’ among apple trees which she sees from the windows of the parsonage at Woodston that her enthusiasm even saves it from demolition . |
| 14 | From the windows of the train , the world appeared to be emerging still from the waters of the Deluge . |
| 15 | And now , Ian Wharton , now that you are no longer the subject of this cautionary tale , merely its object , now that you are just another unproductive atom staring out from the windows of a branded monad , now that I 've got you where I want you , let the wild rumpus begin . |
| 16 | From the windows of every house , white sheets hung out instead of flags . |
| 17 | The festivities started with a parade through the town led by the Houlton Silver Band and as I looked down from the windows of our bed-sitter I could see them all gathering in the street below . |
| 18 | We went up to my room , from the windows of which was a fine view of the Danube with Pest on the other side . |
| 19 | From the windows of Le Club Zodiaque , the street lights made precise geometric patterns : amazingly , there had been careful town planning . |
| 20 | He sat in the back garden with it , obscured from the windows of the lounge ( where his parents and our father sat ) by the washing blowing in the breeze ; he lit the ‘ thrower and sprayed our two hutches with flame , incinerating all our beauties . |
| 21 | Shafts of moonlight spilled from the windows in the roof . |
| 22 | Lightning seemed to reflect from the windows in his eyes , and to Gilbert it seemed as if Rohmer was possessed of some inner , terrifying power . |