Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [prep] [art] [adj] window " in BNC.

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1 Mrs Hollidaye 's dogs were left inside the car bobbing up at the rear window .
2 She shivered as she thought of the creature who might even now be stalking the velvet blackness outside , looking up at the lighted windows , deciding whether or not to break in .
3 ‘ 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 .
4 Then , looking up at the circular window above it , Jack saw that the catch was not fully in position .
5 Dorcas sat in his workshop and stared at the snow piling up against the grubby window , giving the shed a dull grey light .
6 ‘ … crouching up in the sunny window opposite the vicarage , pale , wasted , shrunken hollow-eyed and hollow-cheeked , dying of consumption , but with the sanguine and buoyant spirit of that mysterious and fatally deceptive disease … ‘
7 It had been glorious just to sit there at the huge dining table , with the sounds of the sea wafting up through the open window , feeling her exhaustion slip away from her , while the energetic Mrs Birkin set before the three of them course after delicious course .
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