Example sentences of "[verb] through the [adj] window " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emily Grenfell clasped her hands together , sitting on the edge of her seat gazing through the small window of the coach as it rumbled along Mumbles Road in the fashionable area of Swansea . |
| 2 | Later that night Laura lay in bed , staring at the thin , shadowy shafts of moonlight filtering through the louvred window . |
| 3 | He set about struggling through the narrow window , one hand clutching the Champagne by its neck . |
| 4 | Rain was still driving through the broken window . |
| 5 | Ranulf , outside , peered through the small window , its shabby wooden shutters flung wide to let in the air and light . |
| 6 | One of the waiters peered through the wall-sized window on to the street . |
| 7 | Billie shouted through the open window . |
| 8 | She refilled the saucepan , sweat soaking her body despite the cold wind and driving rain blasting through the smashed window . |
| 9 | Rohmer looked to the storm blasting through the blown-out window . |
| 10 | I was seven and I was I went to a neighbour 's house and as it happened I was looking through the blooming window when the funeral went past so I was no better off you know . |
| 11 | Looking through the little window going like that . |
| 12 | The storm wind of the Darkfall blasted through the shattered window with a howling roar ; rain and snow gushed into the office . |
| 13 | Early morning summer light came through the barred window and lay on his uncovered back , making a checkered pattern with his freshly healed wounds . |
| 14 | The 21-year-old was spending her first night at Sussex University , near Brighton , when she was woken at about 4am by a man who turned on the bedroom light , held a knife to her throat and raped her , before escaping through the open window by which he had entered . |
| 15 | Father Gordy Carvaho is seen through the twisted window in the bell room of Kalaheo town 's Holy Cross Catholic church , which had its steeple devastated in the storms . |
| 16 | The wash boiler is on in the kitchen so you can not see through the French window for steam . |
| 17 | She let go of the cabinet , coughing in the dust of ages that appeared to be lurking behind it , and smiled back at him as the February sun shone through the small window behind her , throwing into sharp relief the patches on the wall where her predecessor had hung posters , and the ingrained dirt on the flaking paintwork round the mean , narrow , metal window . |
| 18 | Peering through the dark window , her hand cupped to the pane , she made out what looked like two rather sad and bedraggled horses standing beneath an enormous oak , heads hung low . |
| 19 | Peering through the filthy window , they saw an empty room littered with small rubble , several pieces of broken dust-covered chairs and an old table , but no sign of life . |
| 20 | Left alone at the table , with the faint shadow of daylight peering through the filthy window in the sloping roof , and with a bare bulb in the wall behind him , Greg looked at the piles of material before him , and his heart sank . |
| 21 | No doubt all three ladies will have participated in many scenes such as the one recently overheard through the open window of the commissariat . |
| 22 | She walked through the open window to the balcony . |
| 23 | ‘ She 'll be delighted to know we 've come across each other , ’ he said , speaking through the open window . |
| 24 | A ray of sunshine filtered through the dirty window , slanting across the table which had n't been scrubbed since Paddy died . |
| 25 | Staring through the streaming window , Nell gritted her teeth every time the bows pushed out over the top of a big wave , only to hang in space before dropping away into the sixty-odd feet of the following trough that seemed to her a mile deep . |
| 26 | Defries was staring through the front window . |
| 27 | I apprehended him when he was about to re-enter through the same window . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Where d' ya wan na go , bub ? ’ he called through the open window . |
| 29 | The afternoon sunlight , shining through the western window embrasure , highlighted the number of dents in the cone-shaped headgear , testifying to its effective and frequent use . |
| 30 | The sun was shining through the little window making patterns of light and shadow on the carpet and causing the polished woodwork to glow . |