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Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] of [art] [adj] window " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He paused again at the next landing and peered out of the open window into the back-court .
2	climbing out of the middle window .
3	Doyle was just climbing out of the shattered window of the junk shop .
4	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 .
5	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 .
6	Soon I was in my old room , with its creaky Victorian furniture , looking out of the tall window at the Dublin traffic .
7	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 .
8	Looking out of the tiny window , she was disappointed .
9	Thiercelin stood looking out of the french window at the end of the long narrow room that was Fedorov 's library .
10	In the back a woman was looking out of the open window , her chin propped on the heel of her hand .
11	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 .
12	Rodney was not in the best of tempers because ( he kept saying ) he could n't see out of the rear window with that damned bicycle in the way .
13	‘ Did you look out of the right window last night ? ’
14	I was strong enough next morning to go and look out of the front window .
15	‘ If I look out of the right window . ’
16	Sam growled and barked out of the front window .
17	Drifting out of an open window , riding over a choppy bassline , comes the distinctive voice of Omar .
18	Are you just going to sit there and stare out of the bloody window ? ’
19	Which was true , Dillon admitted to himself as he glanced out of the rear window once more .
20	The Fish-Boy knocked at the door , and a second later a large plate came flying out of an open window .
21	In one of the explicit love notes Fiona wrote : I 'm gazing out of the circular window in my office thinking of us .
22	He turned , staring out of the long window again , effectively dismissing the man .
23	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 .
24	He had a particular reason for regarding the old female golden eagle as special and , like Creggan , he was obsessed by it now , and stood in his pyjamas staring out of an open window on to a cold and moonlit night .
25	She shrugged and turned away and stared out of the tiny window .
26	Maggie stared out of the nearest window , but all she could see was .
27	Charlie grabbed a seat in the corner of an unlit carriage and stared out of the grimy window at a passing English countryside he had never seen before .
28	By nine in the evening I was fully conscious and observed out of the big window at the end of the room the light beginning to drain from a violet sky .
29	Erm there 's one just as you go out of the french window .
30	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 .