Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [prep] the window " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Before I burst through that door , I 'd been listening at the window — I distinctly recall that he was refusing to say anything really damning . |
| 2 | At last the Barracks loomed into sight , and if anyone had been peeping from the window at that unsociable hour , they might have been hard put to distinguish which was the boy and which the shadow . |
| 3 | She guessed that he had been standing at the window or listening for the sound of her key in the lock . |
| 4 | When they reached the Manor the children who had been watching from the window ran to greet Tamar . |
| 5 | Dana felt so sick , he went straight back to bed , but had been there only a few seconds before he leapt out with a scream of agony : an autumnal , sleepy wasp had been brought in by the chambermaid among the bedclothes which had been airing at the window and had stung my friend on the bottom ! |