Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] window " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jewellery worth £450 was taken after a thief got in through an open window . |
| 2 | Cornelius gazed in through the front window of Molly 's Wholefoods . |
| 3 | She knelt down by the low window , put her head on her arms and cried bitterly . |
| 4 | Walking over to the nearest window , she peered out and found herself looking across what was unmistakably the Grand Canal . |
| 5 | She wandered over to the chicken-wired window , and looked out . |
| 6 | Dougal wandered over to the uncurtained window . |
| 7 | Mrs Hollidaye 's dogs were left inside the car bobbing up at the rear window . |
| 8 | He paused again at the next landing and peered out of the open window into the back-court . |
| 9 | climbing out of the middle window . |
| 10 | Doyle was just climbing out of the shattered window of the junk shop . |
| 11 | Looking down from a small window in the lodge house , the factor Robert Menzies was terrified to see the throngs of people , like herds of cattle milling at a tryst . |
| 12 | Jay Disley was spotted by the police looking in through a broken window and his accomplice Simon Brooklyn was found in the kitchen of the house in Berrybank Crescent . |
| 13 | The hours passed , daylight faded , and the sounds of a warm September evening came in through the open window . |
| 14 | A little breeze came in through the open window and set the hanging light swinging , so that her face was now shadowed , now glistening pale in the electric glare . |
| 15 | Edward came in at the french window and stared blankly at his younger sister . |
| 16 | Later in the evening the sound of loud laughter wafted up through the open window , and even snatches of a song . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose you want me to go first , ’ said Caspar as they stood looking up at the open window , which was grimy and smeary , but much lower than the other windows . |
| 18 | Then , looking up at the circular window above it , Jack saw that the catch was not fully in position . |
| 19 | So , too , the third of them , Stevens , who stood to one side , looking back at the wall-length window and its view of the great circle of the spaceport 's landing apron . |
| 20 | A silver cup whizzed an inch wide of her father 's ear ; her eldest brother caught it just before it sailed out of an arrow-slit window . |
| 21 | The scientific observer conceives of himself as a rational mind looking out through a plate-glass window on to an inaccessible " nature " . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Soon I was in my old room , with its creaky Victorian furniture , looking out of the tall window at the Dublin traffic . |
| 24 | And another part was still looking out of the rear window of the taxi at the green hills receding behind the tiled roofs into the morning sunshine ; still standing in the corridor of the train as the flat terrain of southern England slid past and a great weight built up steadily in my chest . |
| 25 | Looking out of the tiny window , she was disappointed . |
| 26 | Thiercelin stood looking out of the french window at the end of the long narrow room that was Fedorov 's library . |
| 27 | In the back a woman was looking out of the open window , her chin propped on the heel of her hand . |
| 28 | Half listening , half occupied with looking out of the open window at a flock of rooks riding in circles on the breeze , Melissa was vaguely aware of a succession of faint bumping noises in the distance , followed by returning footsteps . |
| 29 | As he strolled back to the front window , and peered behind the curtains again , Bodie asked , ‘ And where were you on all these exotic foreign trips ? ’ |
| 30 | The sunshine was pouring in through a high window on the right , warming a square of the dark red polished floor and making the rest of the room look gloomy by comparison . |