Example sentences of "in [prep] the window " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip jumped up to see if he could get a look in through the window . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | However we were relieved ( though not as much as he ) to see his face , grinning inanely , as he climbed back in through the window . |
| 4 | ‘ It came right in through the window . |
| 5 | The light poured in through the window of our room . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Lee remembered when a sparrow had flown in through the window of her bedroom when she was a child . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When he shut the door of her taxi twenty minutes later he leant in through the window . |
| 13 | A little grey light was coming in through the window . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Tick crept in through the window of the dining-room and surprised Lady Laetitia Winthrop playing at her virginals ( a likely story ) . |
| 17 | They could not open the door , so they climbed down from the roof and got in through the window . |
| 18 | I was up at Sea House one night , looking in through the window — " |
| 19 | " I 'm afraid of what she 'll do , " the man says when I was looking in through the window , and then the other woman goes up to him and starts loving him . |
| 20 | And the searchlights the the battery that we were The camp that we were near , they opened fire and the battery would open fire at that , and the searchlight anyway came in through the window . |
| 21 | Light streams in through the window . |
| 22 | He 'll end up running after her along the platform , bundling books and plaice and Government papers in through the window of the carriage at her as the train moves out … |
| 23 | Those wonderful mornings in summer when the larks rose high over the mountains and you woke to the sound of cowbells and the sun streaming in through the window ? |
| 24 | Fran had n't expected to sleep , but she did , deeply and dreamlessly , and awoke to the sound of birds singing and sunlight streaming in through the window . |
| 25 | And then , as the pale light of morning crept in through the window , she was awoken by the feel of his mouth on her breasts . |
| 26 | The seventy seven year old collapsed after five police officers clambered in through the window to arrest her grandson . |
| 27 | He says that he was operating when a bullet wizzed in through the window and hit the surgeon next to him . |
| 28 | Oh we 'll get in through the window then , that 'll be a laugh . |
| 29 | The voice of Miss Norman , the games teacher , drifted in at the window now and again . |
| 30 | He grabbed Joseph roughly by the shoulder as the boy peered in at the window , and pulled him away . |