Example sentences of "the [adj] window " in BNC.
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| 31 | They come down then and says , ‘ Who 's broken my window ? ’ and I used to say : ‘ Yes , I broke the bloody window — go in the station and tell them you would n't put the light out , ’ and they got a summons on top of it . |
| 32 | Are you just going to sit there and stare out of the bloody window ? ’ |
| 33 | Oh never left the bloody window open ? |
| 34 | I 'm gon na have a wee Bill 's bloody worse , he stands there , he looks out the bloody window as much as any bugger . |
| 35 | So I thought I 'd , so I thought oh I better shut the bloody window , cos if he gets through it , you know , he be , get into it ! |
| 36 | Dorcas sat in his workshop and stared at the snow piling up against the grubby window , giving the shed a dull grey light . |
| 37 | In contrast , the square-headed window spanned by the steel beam of the new technology could have a width disproportionate to its height . |
| 38 | It 's only ten feet or so down , if we pick the right window . ’ |
| 39 | ‘ If I look out of the right window . ’ |
| 40 | ‘ Did you look out of the right window last night ? ’ |
| 41 | Apparently Gagarin said that when he looked out of the right window of his spacecraft and glimpsed the earth for the first time , he had an experience or sense of — and then he used a word which the interpreter did not know the meaning of , so he had to go to another table and ask another interpreter to help . |
| 42 | She wandered over to the chicken-wired window , and looked out . |
| 43 | As we looked out of the shattered window and across the field opposite to where the Corporal was pointing , another burst of fire hit the house . |
| 44 | It was seventeen years after President Kennedy 's assassination , twelve years since Bobby 's , but the idea was so powerful nobody turned to look at the shattered window or the stunned lad . |
| 45 | Doyle was just climbing out of the shattered window of the junk shop . |
| 46 | 4.15PM After the hundredth charred building , I become numbed to the destruction and find myself only stopping to photograph the ironic and unusual : a rental outlet called ‘ Hot Videos ’ up in flames , men carrying couches and lamps through the shattered window of a furniture store next to a large inviting sign : ‘ Come in for real bargains ’ . |
| 47 | The Collector 's hands trembled so badly that he had to rest the telescope on the shattered window sill . |
| 48 | In the darkness , he could barely make out the wooden boards that had been nailed into place over the shattered window vents at street level , but even down here they could hear the hissing of rain on the pavements outside and the grumbling of thunder in the sky . |
| 49 | The storm wind of the Darkfall blasted through the shattered window with a howling roar ; rain and snow gushed into the office . |
| 50 | ‘ He would n't speak to you , Gilbert , ’ continued Rohmer , still staring at the shattered window as if willing the lightning to return . |
| 51 | A small crowd gathered in the street and was watching through the shattered window . |
| 52 | Cardiff turned away from the rain-streaked window as the policemen on cordon-duty lifted the wooden pole and the last of the cars slid away into the night . |
| 53 | I smiled understanding and held on to the last wedge of the broken window , catching glimpses of the brown Yucay River snaking its way between the terraced hills . |
| 54 | With strength born of desperation , Craig heaved himself up and pushed his way through the broken window just as the door burst open below him . |
| 55 | Rain now poured in through the broken window , the wind also whipping through , buffeting Julie as she moved across to the back door . |
| 56 | Rain was still driving through the broken window . |
| 57 | As soon as the cold fingers let go for a moment , I pulled my hand quickly back , put a pile of books in front of the broken window , and tried not to listen to the desperate cries outside . |
| 58 | Mancarelli tells him about the broken window . |
| 59 | Paterson told police that on the night of the fire he and Bailey had gone to investigate the broken window incase there were intruders in the hangar . |
| 60 | These should fit into the well of the recessed window and have a flange which overlaps the edge of the well . |