Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] of the window " in BNC.

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1 Well , she 's not going to jump out of the window in the next hour , is she ?
2 Rivington peered out of the window , and gave a cry .
3 He peered out of the window and groaned .
4 He swore and peered out of the window , and as he did so the gun in his left hand wavered .
5 She peered out of the window again , hoping that she might perhaps have imagined the scene below , but Miss Hardbroom had not moved and was now almost hidden from view by the smoke .
6 Kevin peered out of the window at the grey tarmac and the rain , and wondered what the family would say when they saw him and his wife .
7 He peered out of the window at the moonlit landscape .
8 He peered out of the window as the machine rose into the now-moonless night .
9 Chant peered out of the window .
10 Visit poor Southgate , flirt with young Mathilda , but come back here , ’ Benjamin peered out of the window , ‘ in about two hours . ’
11 He heard voices outside his door , rose in just his robe , peered out of the window and groaned quietly .
12 It is extraordinary how all that has been slung out of the window . ’
13 You could have killed us all , ’ James shouted out of the window .
14 How 's the old seaweed ? and Bet you have n't looked out of the window lately !
15 When she had eventually plucked up her courage and looked out of the window , she had been entranced by the views from the carriage and the speed of travel .
16 I could not have looked out of the window if I had tried , the chores were all done , and there was nothing whatever to do except sit at that table and write .
17 Looked out of the window at rain , no horizon and a cloud-base under 500 ‘ ft ‘ and went back to bed for another hour .
18 ‘ Have you looked out of the window ? ’
19 Howard stops walking up and down , and looks out of the window .
20 Mancarelli looks out of the window .
21 As the sun begins to rise she glances out of the window and recalls how she chose this film from all the offers which came pouring in after success on the small screen and on record .
22 Jasper knelt up on the seats with the rest of them to observe out of the window their progress to Kensington High Street .
23 His hobby was breeding bees and one day he brought them in in a glass cabinet and he was saying , ‘ These are the workers and this is the queen bee , and they fly out of the window and come back with pollen and they make honey . ’
24 But while there 's no shortage of advice about what our children should eat , when it comes to the day-to-day grind of feeding a family , many a frazzled mother 's good intentions fly out of the window .
25 And then there are all those empty packets discarded out of the window onto Britain 's already polluted streets .
26 They were punctual to a minute , so we did n't hang out of the window — anyway the view on the roadside was very constricted , as far as arriving people were concerned .
27 ‘ Oh , I will never get it clean ! ’ ran through her mind , but already there was worse to witness for a plate of spinach was already spattered on the tiles of the fireplace and a bowl of zucchini sailed out of the window .
28 By February 1915 , he was sending Aiken ‘ Suppressed Complex ’ , a poem about a soul-like shadow dancing in the firelight of a woman 's room , before passing out of the window .
29 He was going to put the medals back in his drawer and listen out of the window for Lee going up the field , listen for the sheep .
30 By this time it was the middle of the night and there were no lights showing , so I doubt whether anyone saw me mooning out of the window as we sped past but my car horn has been adapted to play Andrew Lloyd-Webber 's arrangement of Purcell at deafening volume and we had fun with that for a bit .
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