Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] of the window " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is extraordinary how all that has been slung out of the window . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps they 'd never looked out of the windows . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | How 's the old seaweed ? and Bet you have n't looked out of the window lately ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Looked out of the window at rain , no horizon and a cloud-base under 500 ‘ ft ‘ and went back to bed for another hour . |
| 8 | ‘ Have you looked out of the window ? ’ |
| 9 | And then there are all those empty packets discarded out of the window onto Britain 's already polluted streets . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Come on chaps , we 'll have some fun here , ’ shouted the goat and bounded out of the window . |
| 12 | Once married and committed to their partner , they may find excitement has flown out of the window . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The driver leaned out of the window and shouted at the lad , sounded his horn twice , then drove on . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Opposite him a woman leaned out of the window of her own apartment and shouted at him . |
| 17 | I woke up after an hour or so , and just leaned out of the window looking at the half-empty Main Street . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Paddy 's ginger mop was poked out of the window . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Local accountability has gone out of the window ; Ministers no longer even talk about it , because they know that it is not a reality . |
| 24 | We believe that the principle of accountability in local democracy has gone out of the window under this Government . |
| 25 | It 's most likely it will involve the TV being thrown out of the window and possibly followed by the wife . |
| 26 | But I think that sex can be a fleeting thing and sometimes I believe that if it is that alone as the basis of a relationship , then all the finer and better qualities are thrown out of the window . |
| 27 | A week that had seen all her safe , conventional standards thrown out of the window , and irretrievably altered her life . |
| 28 | ‘ If the pound note and the lira were thrown out of the window tomorrow and replaced by the ECU that would be fantastic . ’ |
| 29 | The straw wadding is taken out of the windows exposing a covering of wire , necessary to keep out vermin , and the heavy front of the house is propped open . |
| 30 | Got dressed ( glanced out of the window — hot again ) , made up ( Gothic again ) , sat on the edge of the bed and took out my envelope of dreams and scribbled down last night 's dream . |