Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] of the window " in BNC.
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| 1 | His hobby was breeding bees and one day he brought them in in a glass cabinet and he was saying , ‘ These are the workers and this is the queen bee , and they fly out of the window and come back with pollen and they make honey . ’ |
| 2 | But while there 's no shortage of advice about what our children should eat , when it comes to the day-to-day grind of feeding a family , many a frazzled mother 's good intentions fly out of the window . |
| 3 | He was going to put the medals back in his drawer and listen out of the window for Lee going up the field , listen for the sheep . |
| 4 | The book , published by Methuen and called Don ; t Climb Out Of The Window , sprang from a writing class at Richard 's school . |
| 5 | Sanger duty is particularly boring because there is nothing else to do but look out of the window , and since it is rarely done in pairs social interaction provides no compensation . |
| 6 | ‘ I wo n't let my wife and daughter look out of the window , ’ wrote an irate resident — because the ‘ travellers ’ were peeing against the trees ( 1985 — or 1885 ? ) . |
| 7 | Look out of the window ; there 's always something good to see , whether it is the early morning sunshine , the flowers in the garden or the birds in the trees . |
| 8 | There were no books in the room so all I could do was look out of the window and wait for the quarterly chimes from the Cathedral Clock . |
| 9 | All we will have to do is look out of the window to determine which hypothesis is correct , and therefore deserves elevation to the status of a theory . |
| 10 | After five sentences , stop and pause , take a deep breath , look out of the window , then come back to work on the next five sentences . |
| 11 | If not , the child may start to do something else ( scratch , look out of the window , fidget and so on ) . |
| 12 | A train rattling by made her lift her head and look out of the window . |
| 13 | ‘ Come and look out of the window . ’ |
| 14 | I look out of the window at my car , but it is really the street I am interested in . |
| 15 | Look out of the window ; which colours look particularly good next to each other ? |
| 16 | I curl up and look out of the window . |
| 17 | I look out of the window . |
| 18 | Back upstairs I look out of the window . |
| 19 | When we look out of the window at night what do we see ? |
| 20 | Retired some years back to grow vegetables on an allotment , and sit and stare out of the window . ’ |
| 21 | He did not , as usual , read or stare out of the window or make tea or do any of the things Robert assumed one usually caught teachers doing in off-duty moments . |
| 22 | I rise and lean out of the window into the dark . |
| 23 | I lay the transcript aside and lean out of the window . |
| 24 | Many of the rules for knitting these stitches on single bed go out of the window as soon as you bring the second bed into operation . |
| 25 | For example , if your love life is thriving you can manage to maintain your diet , but as soon as there is an upset , or things are not going to smoothly , then your dietary resolutions go out of the window ? |
| 26 | Does humanity go out of the window when a woman security guard is trained ? |
| 27 | Brett come out of the window . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I gaze out of the window and see in the distance a flash , like a tourist 's Instamatic , of lightning . |