Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] through the window " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one case the Divisional Court held that assault was committed where a woman was frightened by the sight of a man looking in through the window of her house , although there seems to have been little suggestion that the man was threatening to apply force either immediately or at all . |
| 2 | He 'd scattered a few items around the place so that anybody looking in through the window would get the impression that the owner was in residence but out for the day or the evening : a box of tissues and some magazines in the main room , a half-empty bottle of fresh milk and some crockery draining in the kitchen . |
| 3 | I was up at Sea House one night , looking in through the window — " |
| 4 | " I 'm afraid of what she 'll do , " the man says when I was looking in through the window , and then the other woman goes up to him and starts loving him . |
| 5 | And er the car arrives I looked all I could see was mother sitting in the car and puffing this smoke puffing out through the window |
| 6 | On this sunny summer afternoon , Little Billy was kneeling on a chair in the living room , gazing out through the window at the wonderful world beyond . |
| 7 | Staring down through the window , she gazed at the icefield which was the frozen Baltic . |
| 8 | A little grey light was coming in through the window . |
| 9 | She had her way and Corbett went back to his chamber , staring out through the window , glaring at the blue-black clouds gathering over the Epping Forest . |
| 10 | The sun , slanting in through the window , showed up the faded shabbiness of the room , but outside the treetops were golden and the bees were loud in the roses . |
| 11 | In the summer , with the sun slanting in through the window , with the deep tan wallpaper , and the overall colour scheme of tan and creams , it looked lovely , but in the depths of winter it looked vaguely soiled , and depressingly dull . |
| 12 | Those wonderful mornings in summer when the larks rose high over the mountains and you woke to the sound of cowbells and the sun streaming in through the window ? |
| 13 | Fran had n't expected to sleep , but she did , deeply and dreamlessly , and awoke to the sound of birds singing and sunlight streaming in through the window . |
| 14 | He was sitting at a carefully chosen table with the magnificence of Princes Street stretching out through the window behind him . |