Example sentences of "the [adj] window " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah I think , I do n't , she must lock it from the inside window back through |
| 2 | You can return from the window icon to the normal window size by either clicking on the icon and selecting RESTORE from the menu which pops up , or by double clicking on the window icon . |
| 3 | There was fresh cool air there , as the right-hand window , next to the bank of controls in front of the engineer 's seat , was wide open . |
| 4 | A passenger looking out of the right-hand window of the carriage after the train for Bishop 's Castle had clattered over the pointwork away from the Shrewsbury and Hereford joint line , to curve westwards into the Onny valley , would have seen a small timber platform marking the site of a temporary station that became a permanent feature . |
| 5 | He set about struggling through the narrow window , one hand clutching the Champagne by its neck . |
| 6 | With a final gesture she put the key on the sill of the narrow window and pulled herself up the stone steps . |
| 7 | Sometimes , waking very early , she would tiptoe to the narrow window and look out across the harbour , half expecting to see a ship at anchor there , newly arrived from Portugal . |
| 8 | Framed in the narrow window she saw the landscape , lit and brilliant as the background of a painting . |
| 9 | She sat for a moment on the narrow window ledge , scanning the shadows in case shapes , creatures , sentinels should materialise . |
| 10 | Jamie and Katy watched Dad dip his paintbrush in the thick white paint and slowly , slowly stroke the brush along the narrow window frame . |
| 11 | He had noticed how the boy 's eyes kept going to the broad window behind him . |
| 12 | The damn window 's wide open across there and I can only see the gramophone . |
| 13 | A few tourists were aboard ; a couple with walking gear and their spaniel dog with one blind eye staring out of the low window , and a Canadian , rather loud , who had struck up conversation with a young Lewis woman who was coming back from visiting her husband working in Libya . |
| 14 | She knelt down by the low window , put her head on her arms and cried bitterly . |
| 15 | She was going to a flat which would have very little growing space , apart from the odd window box , and was leaving behind an extremely beautiful garden that contained many years of memories . |
| 16 | That 's why I 'm fiddling around doing the odd window here and there because that 's all that we 've got for . |
| 17 | The other was used as a store room , a pathetic fate , since the tall window and high ceiling spoke of better days . |
| 18 | Soon I was in my old room , with its creaky Victorian furniture , looking out of the tall window at the Dublin traffic . |
| 19 | It was a narrow , high room with unsuitable , stately proportions to the tall window , which was glazed with frosted glass and half-covered by a torn , plastic curtain with Disney fish on it . |
| 20 | The afternoon sunlight poured through the tall window behind the curving staircase , and showed — up the shabbiness of the curtains , and the rugs on the uneven polished oak floor . |
| 21 | Now , with only a couple of things left to read , I have suddenly had enough of the miserable food , of the noise — a sort of veech sound — of men sucking their teeth , of the monotonous landscape barely visible through the smoke-fogged window … |
| 22 | The arched window was allied to the brick jack-arch system often employed to achieve an incombustible floor construction and tended to produce an opening which was disproportionately high related to its width . |
| 23 | There , framed in the arched window , lay a dizzy bird's-eye panorama . |
| 24 | But is it the round window , the square window , or the arched window ? |
| 25 | Just before leaving , glance up to the left to see the glazed window through which Franz Kafka gazed upon Catholic services in church from his parents ' flat next door . |
| 26 | The glazed window which came about almost 2,000 year s ago was a luxury which only the privileged few enjoyed . |
| 27 | The lower window was open ? |
| 28 | Right , so in the lower window , we 've got the sales file , and the upper window we 've got the income file . |
| 29 | There were paintings stacked at the side of the room — whether finished or not , she did not know — but the thing that was most touching , the thing that stopped her forward momentum was a chair by the lower window , obviously placed to look out over the valley and the distant forest . |
| 30 | It would certainly be possible for a jackdaw to get in through any of the eight window openings , but then I thought , No . |