Example sentences of "[art] windows " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Even now , he wrote , with the first heat of early summer in the middle of London , even now , with all the windows open , the glass freezes the room . |
| 3 | The desire for a homely effect meant that pitched roofs remained , even if tucked behind parapets , while the windows adopted horizontal Crittall glazing . |
| 4 | They have seen her in the shadows outside the windows of country cottages , and drawn the blinds , dropped the latch . |
| 5 | The Flemyngs would be away , no doubt , ‘ at a banquet in Perth ’ , and they were ; a butler spoke to them from an upper window and asked them would they kindly leave a message so they marked the house with dirt and rotten potatoes while the servants rushed to bar the shutters over the windows . |
| 6 | There were locks on all the windows of the flat too . |
| 7 | I knew the neighbours complained that the pigeons grew used to coming close to the windows , but I did n't care . |
| 8 | The compartments have little curtains in the windows ; the lamps are lit ; it 's eleven a.m. but still winter . |
| 9 | For every four windows on a Mark 3 standard-class coach there are four and a h–f bays of seats , only the end bays matching the windows and succeeding bays being more tightly spaced so that some passengers are seated against a blank wall . |
| 10 | Wall-to-wall carpeting , luggage racks running lengthways above the windows , supplemented by space for cases and bags between the seats , provide an uncluttered spaciousness to give a relaxed atmosphere on the longest of journeys . |
| 11 | InterCity of course has its light and dark grey with a red band under the windows , while Scotrail established its own blue band instead of red . |
| 12 | Because the second–class coaches use a common bodyshell with first–class coaches , seats do not always align with the windows . |
| 13 | Over the past couple of years we have seen application tools embrace the facilities offered by the Windows front end or graphics user interfaces ( GUIs ) . |
| 14 | Nature and number of windows is defined by the user and size of the windows is defined by the user and size of the windows is adjustable . |
| 15 | Nature and number of windows is defined by the user and size of the windows is defined by the user and size of the windows is adjustable . |
| 16 | But they swarm at the windows in such numbers they black out the light and the air . |
| 17 | In his Sutton Place apartment overlooking the East River , with ships ' lights nosing past the windows and the walls hung with a splendidly eerie collection of Magritte paintings , there was a permanent welcome on the mat . |
| 18 | It appeared to be coming from somewhere to the right , the bullets were hitting the house high up and smashing through the windows of one of the bedrooms . |
| 19 | All the windows in the farmhouse had been shattered , the whole scene resembling something from the Blitz . |
| 20 | The gathering was suddenly brought to an end as a cluster of mortar bombs exploded on the village green shattering the windows of the café and dislodging bottles from the shelves . |
| 21 | The door is locked and the windows are covered with grime ; in the silence the whole place looks as if it has not been occupied for several weeks . |
| 22 | The monument is fortuitously under the windows of the Ministry of Defence and under the gaze of Lord Trenchard whose statue was placed in Whitehall Gardens in 1956 . |
| 23 | No Bishop of Durham could ever forget , or was ever allowed to forget , how one of his predecessors Westcott mediated in a bitter strike ; how a vast crowd stood outside Auckland Castle , seeing the owners through the windows of one room and the miners through the windows of another , waiting for five hours as they watched the bishop go to and fro between the two rooms ; until he brought the parties to a happy agreement , and when he came out among the crowd he received an ovation . |
| 24 | No Bishop of Durham could ever forget , or was ever allowed to forget , how one of his predecessors Westcott mediated in a bitter strike ; how a vast crowd stood outside Auckland Castle , seeing the owners through the windows of one room and the miners through the windows of another , waiting for five hours as they watched the bishop go to and fro between the two rooms ; until he brought the parties to a happy agreement , and when he came out among the crowd he received an ovation . |
| 25 | An enormous bomb fell on a place nearby called Spurgeon 's Tabernacle , so close that it blew in all the windows and knocked the marquee for six . |
| 26 | It turned out that he 'd inched along the parapet — a thin one about six inches wide — and had a good peek at us through the windows . |
| 27 | The windows had been bricked up as part of the soundproofing . |
| 28 | Two blocks away from the house of her childhood it suddenly occurred to her that her mother might have left , that there might be strangers in the hallway , a different set of curtains hanging at the windows ; her father 's study might have been turned into a playroom for a new generation of North Oxford children , so different from herself in her prim Clark 's T-bar sandals that she would not be able to recognise her own infancy in theirs . |
| 29 | That light came originally from the same source as Fenna 's fire , from the heart of the golden star , from the sun itself — but it was light crashing around space at speeds which defy relativity , rolling like waves , bouncing like particles , rebounding off the dead desert of the cold moon and hurled thence , down through nearly a quarter of a million miles , forced through the steadily slowly moving liquid molecules of solid glass which made the windows . |
| 30 | ‘ I had the stopwatch on you from behind one of the windows . |