Example sentences of "[prep] the window at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standing up , he gazed through the window at the massive gritstone ridge which stood against the sky on the other side of the main dale . |
| 2 | And then ( as he stood and stared through the window at the magazine ) Boy imagined sleeping with these men , actually sleeping , sharing a bed with them for the night . |
| 3 | On this sunny summer afternoon , Little Billy was kneeling on a chair in the living room , gazing out through the window at the wonderful world beyond . |
| 4 | And now Little Billy was kneeling on the chair , gazing with longing through the window at the famous Forest of Sin . |
| 5 | He said ‘ The front door was locked , so I got through the window at the back . |
| 6 | The hand started pushing through the window at the pile of books , and I knew it would find me and catch hold of me again . |
| 7 | Canon Wheeler allowed his eye to wander around the handsome room lit by the full , secure English sunlight and gazed for a moment through the window at the spire of Medewich 's beautiful Cathedral . |
| 8 | So there was always a bottle of Reisling and a guitar , his Japanese kimono and him staying in bed , looking out of the window at the wolves chasing the train as we went through Siberia in the snow , whereas Geoffrey McCormack ( or Warren Peace as he was known professionally ) and I would get off at nearly every stop if we were awake , and run around on the platform . |
| 9 | ‘ Look , ’ she said pointing out of the window at the toy wigwam . |
| 10 | Tug gazed out of the window at the mist lying in the bottom of the dale and the indistinct grey ridges stretching away from the cottage . |
| 11 | She lay on the narrow white bed , staring out of the window at the gray-white clouds moving heavily across the October sky , and tried to organize her thinking . |
| 12 | During the days , while the man slept , Boy would sleep a little himself , in a chair , in preparation for his nights at The Bar ; but mostly he would stare out of the window at the city , or stare at the television . |
| 13 | He looked out of the window at the trucks lumbering through the mist , down the road towards Algeciras or heading east towards Malaga . |
| 14 | He shrugged his shoulders and , whistling the Lorelei , stared out of the window at the castles on the Rhine . |
| 15 | I looked out of the window at the sun flashing on a field of snow . |
| 16 | Alison looked away out of the window at the facade of New College opposite . |
| 17 | And when he came into the Pincushion Room and rested his elbows on the window-ledge , he would look out of the window at the garden bright with midsummer sun or bathed in moonlight and think , all this is mine , that garden , that fruit cage within the flint walls , that lake , the Little Wood , as far as I can see on either side of me and in front of the house and behind , all that is mine … |
| 18 | He put the papers away and leaned back , gazing out of the window at the bright banks of sunlit cloud as they reached thirty thousand feet . |
| 19 | Kevin peered out of the window at the grey tarmac and the rain , and wondered what the family would say when they saw him and his wife . |
| 20 | He stared out of the window at the lights of the cars streaming along rue du Faubourg-St-Honoré at the end of the street . |
| 21 | Bolt Head stared impassively out of the window at the dramatic skyline of Manhattan . |
| 22 | Duncan stayed awake , looking out of the window at the cloud-covered land thirty thousand feet below . |
| 23 | He then followed Duncan through the small terminal to where they could look out of the window at the tarmac ramp , on to the military side , where Duncan had seen the transporter . |
| 24 | He peered out of the window at the moonlit landscape . |
| 25 | The flats face Carntyne dog track , and I gaze out of the window at the greyhounds as they sprint after the electric hare , then , late in the afternoon , transfer my attention to the road , in the hope of seeing my father appear again with sweeties , and notebooks for me to draw in . |
| 26 | The success — I am looking out of the window at the thickly carpeted mountainside — comes from the knowledge of shared weakness , the weakness of both men and women in matters of sex and passion . |
| 27 | The other two had evidently been in hospital longer than I had , and they were like children let out of school , peering through the unblacked-out part of the window at the bright lights in the shops and rejoicing that they would be home for Christmas . |
| 28 | Jacob looked away , out of the window at the stretch of blue winter sky above the uniform roofs of the Park Avenue apartment blocks . |
| 29 | Anne was looking out of the window at the reds and yellows of the trees , and the silvery blue of the river . |
| 30 | Sometimes I looked out of the window at the grey November afternoon , and saw the rain pouring down on the leafless garden . |