Example sentences of "[adv prt] of the [adj] window " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | A group of women prisoners were leaning out of the second-floor window , watching the visitors approach the building . |
3 | He turned , staring out of the long window again , effectively dismissing the man . |
4 | He sat back himself , looked out of the small window at the heavy , storm-laden , bulbous clouds they were flying through . |
5 | As he bent tenderly over it to examine the flattened tyres , a hand stuck a length of rubber piping out of the wash-room window and directed a jet of water down his neck . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Two weeks ago , a television was thrown out of the flat window and there had also been fights . |
8 | As we looked out of the shattered window and across the field opposite to where the Corporal was pointing , another burst of fire hit the house . |
9 | Doyle was just climbing out of the shattered window of the junk shop . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | ‘ If I look out of the right window . ’ |
12 | ‘ Did you look out of the right window last night ? ’ |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Out of the front window he saw the ‘ For Sale ’ sign , the white paint of the board showing up in the light that shone from between the curtains of Tom 's cottage . |
15 | ‘ Smells like rain , ’ said Tom leaning out of the front window . |
16 | Sam growled and barked out of the front window . |
17 | I was strong enough next morning to go and look out of the front window . |
18 | climbing out of the middle window . |
19 | Looking out of the tiny window , she was disappointed . |
20 | She shrugged and turned away and stared out of the tiny window . |
21 | I looked out of the tiny window over her shoulder , willing myself to make it slow , to make it last . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Nicky held a beer bottle out of the rear window . |
24 | Which was true , Dillon admitted to himself as he glanced out of the rear window once more . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | Are you just going to sit there and stare out of the bloody window ? ’ |
27 | Soon I was in my old room , with its creaky Victorian furniture , looking out of the tall window at the Dublin traffic . |
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 | Ominously , she could n't even see the road when she peered down out of the high window . |
30 | A small head was poking out of the topmost window . |