Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] of the window " in BNC.
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| 1 | By February 1915 , he was sending Aiken ‘ Suppressed Complex ’ , a poem about a soul-like shadow dancing in the firelight of a woman 's room , before passing out of the window . |
| 2 | By this time it was the middle of the night and there were no lights showing , so I doubt whether anyone saw me mooning out of the window as we sped past but my car horn has been adapted to play Andrew Lloyd-Webber 's arrangement of Purcell at deafening volume and we had fun with that for a bit . |
| 3 | " You mean the bears bursting out of the house , shouting out of the windows , chasing the little girl away ? |
| 4 | On looking out of the windows , one saw on the opposite side of the street a bakery displaying a variety of pastries , a chemist 's shop and a barber 's . |
| 5 | At first , they enjoyed looking out of the windows , but then they became sleepy . |
| 6 | I was sitting there looking out of the window and suddenly this wonderful record came on . |
| 7 | So there was always a bottle of Reisling and a guitar , his Japanese kimono and him staying in bed , looking out of the window at the wolves chasing the train as we went through Siberia in the snow , whereas Geoffrey McCormack ( or Warren Peace as he was known professionally ) and I would get off at nearly every stop if we were awake , and run around on the platform . |
| 8 | Peter Yeo was still looking out of the window , and Claudia glanced at his familiar back , too short and too broad despite the most expensive tailoring , with real anxiety , ‘ You do n't honestly think that , do you , Peter ? |
| 9 | ‘ There 's your Dad now , ’ said his Mum looking out of the window . |
| 10 | He noticed , looking out of the window that there was a lot of snow left in the garden , white , not dirtied at all , piled up against the fence . |
| 11 | The next thing , he saw Lee looking out of the window . |
| 12 | She could not spend the day looking out of the window . |
| 13 | Looking out of the window she saw that the drizzle had become heavy rain . |
| 14 | If Marcus was sitting on his bed or walking about the room or looking out of the window , Ludens would sit near him either on a chair or else on the floor his knees up , his back against the wall . |
| 15 | But when I got home , I spent an hour simply looking out of the window of my home at the campus , and speculating on its future . |
| 16 | Only Gary was unconcerned , looking out of the window . |
| 17 | Nails was looking out of the window as if he had nothing to do with any of them . |
| 18 | I asked the officer who was looking out of the window if there was a curfew . |
| 19 | When he saw me looking out of the window he smiled , and , looking up at the sun , said : |
| 20 | I remember on one such occasion in early 1920 , my sister Gladys and I were upstairs in the top back room , looking out of the window , when we heard a terrifying scream . |
| 21 | Changez stood there looking out of the window and scratching his arse , completely ignoring his father-in-law , who had no choice but to carry on with his explanation . |
| 22 | For example , in a fast-moving train it is better to look at the horizon than at the close landscape — it is even better to avoid looking out of the window . |
| 23 | I used a shade that is lighter than most soils , although of course I am used to looking out of the window at our bright reddish-brown soil here in Devon ! |
| 24 | Larry Cummins recollected , ‘ I was looking out of the window while seated at my navigator 's table , and I saw a sizeable hole suddenly appear in the left wing . |
| 25 | He was looking out of the window at his lovely new garden , at the exquisite magnolia just breaking into its goblet-like , glowing blooms which were , since Monday , also his . |
| 26 | Luke said , going scarlet and looking out of the window , ‘ I wondered if , I mean , do you need , I mean , would you have any job you could give me ? |
| 27 | Duncan stayed awake , looking out of the window at the cloud-covered land thirty thousand feet below . |
| 28 | It is easy to start daydreaming , looking out of the window , or concentrating on other things such as the speaker 's facial expressions or clothes . |
| 29 | The success — I am looking out of the window at the thickly carpeted mountainside — comes from the knowledge of shared weakness , the weakness of both men and women in matters of sex and passion . |
| 30 | One Sunday morning , when I was looking out of the window , I saw Mme Guérigny leave church and walk from the rue de Fleuve along the rue Victorie towards Bluot 's , and return with a box nicely wrapped and tied with gold string . |