Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] window " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking over to the nearest window , she peered out and found herself looking across what was unmistakably the Grand Canal . |
| 2 | Mrs Hollidaye 's dogs were left inside the car bobbing up at the rear window . |
| 3 | climbing out of the middle window . |
| 4 | Doyle was just climbing out of the shattered window of the junk shop . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Then , looking up at the circular window above it , Jack saw that the catch was not fully in position . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The scientific observer conceives of himself as a rational mind looking out through a plate-glass window on to an inaccessible " nature " . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Soon I was in my old room , with its creaky Victorian furniture , looking out of the tall window at the Dublin traffic . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Looking out of the tiny window , she was disappointed . |
| 15 | Thiercelin stood looking out of the french window at the end of the long narrow room that was Fedorov 's library . |
| 16 | In the back a woman was looking out of the open window , her chin propped on the heel of her hand . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Going out by the gun-room window , ’ said Thomas , ‘ which master announced to all of them was faulty , and that was why Rover slept there . ’ |
| 20 | Dorcas sat in his workshop and stared at the snow piling up against the grubby window , giving the shed a dull grey light . |
| 21 | Drifting out of an open window , riding over a choppy bassline , comes the distinctive voice of Omar . |
| 22 | The Fish-Boy knocked at the door , and a second later a large plate came flying out of an open window . |
| 23 | In one of the explicit love notes Fiona wrote : I 'm gazing out of the circular window in my office thinking of us . |
| 24 | The scents of the garden , blowing in through the open window , had removed the last trace of stuffiness from the room . |
| 25 | Painfully , looking up at him , she saw a good strong profile , sandy hair tipped with gold from the sun coming in through the lace-curtained window . |
| 26 | Bacci and the Marshal were staring in at the uncurtained window below the steps that led to the front door . |
| 27 | She had found him sitting there , hunched up on his bed , his arms wrapped about his knees , staring out through the open window at the bay . |
| 28 | He turned , staring out of the long window again , effectively dismissing the man . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |