Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] of [art] window " in BNC.

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1 The second ring was also slung out of a window after a row .
2 It is extraordinary how all that has been slung out of the window . ’
3 Perhaps they 'd never looked out of the windows .
4 It 's official designation is an eyecatcher ; the idea was you looked out of the windows of the house and that your eye was drawn to the temple at the end of the lakes .
5 How 's the old seaweed ? and Bet you have n't looked out of the window lately !
6 When she had eventually plucked up her courage and looked out of the window , she had been entranced by the views from the carriage and the speed of travel .
7 I could not have looked out of the window if I had tried , the chores were all done , and there was nothing whatever to do except sit at that table and write .
8 Looked out of the window at rain , no horizon and a cloud-base under 500 ‘ ft ‘ and went back to bed for another hour .
9 ‘ Have you looked out of the window ? ’
10 And then there are all those empty packets discarded out of the window onto Britain 's already polluted streets .
11 A sheet hung out of a window and shaken
12 As she gathered up the bedding and cushions she had hung out of the windows to air before the evening earth began to exhale dew , she wondered whether she should fetch out her best mantilla , the white lace her mother had given her for her first communion , which she never wore because it seemed so showy , and had n't worn even yesterday for the Easter Mass .
13 Lurid nonsense about somebody being pushed out of a window twenty years ago .
14 ‘ Come on chaps , we 'll have some fun here , ’ shouted the goat and bounded out of the window .
15 Once married and committed to their partner , they may find excitement has flown out of the window .
16 Reason had grown wings and flown out of the window , but she knew that she had to recapture it or else give in to him , and live to regret her weakness .
17 The driver leaned out of the window and shouted at the lad , sounded his horn twice , then drove on .
18 Suddenly spotting the rear view of the vehicle , he had leaned out of the window , and was using his R/T to contact his base .
19 Opposite him a woman leaned out of the window of her own apartment and shouted at him .
20 I woke up after an hour or so , and just leaned out of the window looking at the half-empty Main Street .
21 Sarah , who had leaned out of the window to see the house , sat down again , smiling and blinking at the water drawn into her eyes by the cold and the wind .
22 On the magazine , Jane 's main task was to wrestle with the anglicising of indifferent American short stories , while the particular harpy who was her boss gazed out of the window for ninety per cent of the time .
23 They were a delight for the charterers in the Bahamian lagoons , but in an Atlantic storm such wide windows could be our death warrants for if Wavebreaker fell off a big wave the glass could be driven out of the windows and the boat be filling with water in seconds , and so I cut and shaped sheet steel shutters that could be bolted over the boat 's glass at the first sign of bad weather .
24 Paddy 's ginger mop was poked out of the window .
25 And when Benn started hitting him with those big shots in the 11th , the textbook should have gone out of the window for the animal instinct to take over but he did n't have it the way I had against Benn and Michael Watson , unfortunately .
26 Local accountability has gone out of the window ; Ministers no longer even talk about it , because they know that it is not a reality .
27 We believe that the principle of accountability in local democracy has gone out of the window under this Government .
28 The band were left with a £10,000 bill for damage after valuable antiques were thrown out of a window , damaging a car below .
29 The first ring was thrown out of a window after a row .
30 If he 'd been thrown out of a window . ’
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