Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the window " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tick crept in through the window of the dining-room and surprised Lady Laetitia Winthrop playing at her virginals ( a likely story ) . |
| 2 | And then , as the pale light of morning crept in through the window , she was awoken by the feel of his mouth on her breasts . |
| 3 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 4 | They could not open the door , so they climbed down from the roof and got in through the window . |
| 5 | Catching them was a simple procedure of setting up a wire-mesh peat basket , held up at one side by a stick , with a string attached which led in through the window . |
| 6 | They walked briskly over to the two cars and Plumpton bent down and peered in through the windows of the Mini . |
| 7 | He grabbed Joseph roughly by the shoulder as the boy peered in at the window , and pulled him away . |
| 8 | He says that he was operating when a bullet wizzed in through the window and hit the surgeon next to him . |
| 9 | She had no need to worry about making herself understood , though , she realised , for no sooner had the casually but expensively dressed dark-haired man bent down to the window than in faultless English he was commenting easily , ‘ Having trouble ? ’ |
| 10 | In the end , she threw her pencil across the room in frustration , then paced over to the window . |
| 11 | She moved over to the window , staring out into the darkness . |
| 12 | He moved over to the window of his office and looked out . |
| 13 | He moved over to the window and looked out across rain-driven Wimbledon . |
| 14 | Restlessly Leith moved over to the window , but while the view from her room was quite exquisite , she saw nothing of it and could see only Naylor 's furious face as he accused her of leading Travis on . |
| 15 | The superintendent wandered over to the window . |
| 16 | Blanche sighed , stood up and wandered over to the window . |
| 17 | Lissa wandered over to the window and gazed out over the expanse of carefully tended shrubbery that bordered the car park . |
| 18 | Andrew put the leather helmet down and wandered over to the window . |
| 19 | He came back through then and she averted her eyes from the fire , and his face , and wandered over to the window , to sober herself by staring once again at the pouring rain . |
| 20 | With a tired shrug , he wandered over to the window and stared out at the grounds . |
| 21 | He sucked fruitlessly on his now extinct pipe , laid it down on the table beside him , got up , and turning his back on his visitors , wandered over to the window . |
| 22 | Zen wandered over to the window , trying to push it back together again . |
| 23 | Carol and Gillian peered out of the windows . |
| 24 | Rivington peered out of the window , and gave a cry . |
| 25 | He peered out of the window and groaned . |
| 26 | He swore and peered out of the window , and as he did so the gun in his left hand wavered . |
| 27 | She peered out of the window again , hoping that she might perhaps have imagined the scene below , but Miss Hardbroom had not moved and was now almost hidden from view by the smoke . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He peered out of the window at the moonlit landscape . |
| 30 | He peered out of the window as the machine rose into the now-moonless night . |