Example sentences of "at the window " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood at the window and looked down into the street . |
| 2 | A scratching at the window . |
| 3 | Five minutes after you left he was back here throwing stones at the window . |
| 4 | I say , still looking at the window . |
| 5 | I run fast as I can at the window , but it still wo n't break . |
| 6 | Richard , wearing the new dressing gown and slippers that had been his mother 's practical present , stood at the window , looking out over the bare countryside . |
| 7 | When she left him , he stood at the window for a long time , looking out over the newly-awakened countryside . |
| 8 | Kenneth Branagh , Paul Scofield and Emma Thompson in a scene from Branagh 's production of Henry V : see Critic 's choice Face at the window … |
| 9 | At the window are luxurious Satin Finesse curtains from £43.99 a pair , tie-backs at £15.99 a pair , and a festoon pelmet at £29.99 . |
| 10 | When at last my number came , I presented myself at the window and asked for a ticket on the 10.05 to Stockholm the next morning . |
| 11 | He heard a noise at the window . |
| 12 | Discouraged , Jinny bent to her picking , telling herself that she was stupid to expect faces at the window or dramatic voices calling . |
| 13 | She was up at the window looking out . |
| 14 | Dana felt so sick , he went straight back to bed , but had been there only a few seconds before he leapt out with a scream of agony : an autumnal , sleepy wasp had been brought in by the chambermaid among the bedclothes which had been airing at the window and had stung my friend on the bottom ! |
| 15 | He was standing at the window of an empty compartment , laughing , as he made the gesture of slitting his throat . |
| 16 | A face at the window . ’ |
| 17 | He looked up at the window of the nearest compartment . |
| 18 | The large , pale , implacable face was still at the window . |
| 19 | Mungo looked up and was relieved not to see a face at the window . |
| 20 | He could tell she was very annoyed by the way she jogged her foot up and down as she stared at the window . |
| 21 | He looked quickly at the window behind his father 's back and spotted Tom Fish outside in the yard . |
| 22 | If I stand at the window ( which I am not going to do ) I can see a small fat man with a trilby hat , a British warm and what looks like a binocular case , standing down below on the other side of the road and peering up with an anxious concentration at this battered , paint-peeling semi-circle of so-called Mansion Flats . |
| 23 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 24 | The light at the window grew stronger , but their eyes were closed . |
| 25 | As the deep velvet baritone quietly affirmed ‘ Und morgen wird die Sonne wieder scheinen … ’ , a hawk moth , disturbed at the window pane , raced towards the bulb of a reading-lamp and dashed itself against the light until it fell exhausted on to the table . |
| 26 | He is impatient when they think they see a scary man at the window . |
| 27 | He took a quick look at the window . |
| 28 | Maggie asked , joining her at the window . |
| 29 | Ten minutes later , they were standing at the window of the cutler 's shop . |
| 30 | Vic hoots impatiently at the barrier ; the security man 's face appears at the window and flashes an ingratiating smile . |