Example sentences of "wind [adv prt] the window " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too many drivers think they can wind down the window , sing a song , have a conversation and it 'll go away , but I 'm afraid it does n't . |
| 2 | In spite of the temptation to get the car warmed up , I switch off the engine and wind down the window . |
| 3 | ‘ Wind down the window ’ , I hear you say . |
| 4 | Winding down the window , he threw the bits out into the road . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm on my way , playmates , ’ he called , winding down the window to show his melancholy face . |
| 6 | A couple of grey and white winter-plumage black guillemots — called tysties in Shetland — complete the picture , and I wind up the window and move on . |
| 7 | Lucy wound down the window of her car and held her face up . |
| 8 | I wound down the window of the car and shouted after the woman , ‘ Kilturk ? ’ |
| 9 | Boy wound down the window so that he could see the stars better , and then he made the man kiss him , right there . |
| 10 | I pulled up opposite , wound down the window and stared . |
| 11 | I wound down the window and asked him if he knew where the dolmen was . |
| 12 | As Rennie swaggered towards him , he obligingly wound down the window , depriving Rennie of the peremptory tap he enjoyed . |
| 13 | She thought he appeared nervous as he wound down the window . |
| 14 | The Sergeant wound down the window , and now they could hear the clamouring questions as he showed the policeman his ID . |
| 15 | She wound down the window . |
| 16 | Harry turned off the car engine and wound down the window . |
| 17 | And the question that had troubled him in Nairobi swelled , until he stopped the car , wound down the window and with a curious naivete called : ‘ Please tell me : why are the children here hungry ? ’ |
| 18 | She wound down the window , trying to think of some way of putting things right . |
| 19 | Melissa waved and Eleanor wound down the window . |
| 20 | I tapped on the glass , and she wound down the window . |
| 21 | Zen wound down the window and let his half-smoked cigarette be sucked out into the airstream . |
| 22 | I wound down the window and butted in . |
| 23 | She wound down the window . |
| 24 | My second brother and I , self-conscious teenagers of the Sixties , were sometimes embarrassed when she wound down the window of her car and addressed a shepherd or a forester in her clear , carrying , Edwardian accent . |
| 25 | On one occasion , they locked her in the car when they went to a call and wound up the window to prevent her overhearing . |
| 26 | She wound up the window and started to cruise round , her eyes searching for the nice little space that would take her white Golf GTI . |
| 27 | I locked the door , wound up the window and told Melanie and Tricia to go and get her . |
| 28 | We wound up the windows as quickly as possible but we were already soaked . |
| 29 | Just as Debbie was about to wind up the window , he suddenly asked her for a lift , saying he only lived 5 minutes down the road and could she drop him on her way ? |