Example sentences of "from [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 | ‘ By the time I rolled to the bottom of the slope I could see the steady fire coming from the windows . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The gables are more pointed than normal , the mullioned and transomed windows more elongated , while the dripstone , such a familiar Cotswold feature , has been turned into a frill which still directs the rain away from the windows . |
| 5 | Nobody looked at him from the windows . |
| 6 | Soft lights glowed from the windows of the shops in Wine Street . |
| 7 | She sheltered in a summer-house twenty metres from the windows of the music room . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | In the Christian village of Kahhale , white flags were hanging from the windows . |
| 10 | Soon they become aware that the train is engaged on a steady climb , this section being popularly known as the Long Drag ; beyond Horton in Ribblesdale Station interest tends to flag a little as the outlook from the windows becomes more austere on the pull up to Ribblehead . |
| 11 | The scullery to the left and the wall of the neighbour 's house on the right made a convenient place for ball games , always provided care was used to keep away from the windows . |
| 12 | is there much glare on the screen of the machine you will be working at due to the room lighting or the light from the windows ? |
| 13 | We do n't know how many inhabitants there are , or which is early closing day , or whether we can see the sea from the windows . |
| 14 | In Patrick White 's The Free Man , Stan and Amy Parker are comforted only by habit ‘ … like warm drinks and slippers ’ , and in their emotionally empty house ‘ … dusty light spilled from the windows . |
| 15 | Midnight turned as the Captain moved through light beams spreading from the windows across the yard . |
| 16 | With the cooperation of their management , staff unfurled a banner from the windows saying something like ‘ Liz , leave your queens alone ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Then the police came along and told us we should stay inside and keep away from the windows . |
| 19 | Lotus , for instance , has been enhancing its DOS 1-2-3 products with features borrowed from the Windows world . |
| 20 | Whoever was inside could have seen him from the windows . |
| 21 | The night had turned rough and the rattle from the windows had seemed to be emphasised by the silence during supper . |
| 22 | ‘ Later we were told there had been an incident at the Hilton and were asked to move all our guests away from the windows . ’ |
| 23 | The views across the Weald from the windows of this coach are impressive as the train trundles towards Horstead Keynes and beyond . |
| 24 | I had the sun in my eyes from the windows one side and when I dipped a wing , the stars shining in the other . |
| 25 | Titian 's ‘ Tribute Money ’ , which is displayed in a free-standing case , is almost invisible behind the reflection from the windows . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Shafts of moonlight spilled from the windows in the roof . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | • Compaq has announced it will be pre-loading the software from the Windows Sound System onto its high-level Deskpro/i and Deskpro/m systems . |
| 30 | Only from the windows of a derelict tower block squatted by women was there any deliberately hostile response . |