Example sentences of "window [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To change options double click on the text window or click on the underscored arrow button . |
| 2 | She guessed that he had been standing at the window or listening for the sound of her key in the lock . |
| 3 | In the front hall — in case any burglar should choose to throw himself through the fireproof glass in the window or slice through the mortise lock with a flame gun — was a selection of things to trip over . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd better get the glucose testing kit , ’ she mumbled as she edged towards the French window that led into the breakfast-room and then along a passage to the suite of rooms used by Faye and Bill . |
| 5 | The courtyard was no longer floodlit but the moon was brilliant , filling the room with light , and Maggie slid from her bed and went quickly to the long window that led to the veranda . |
| 6 | People passing in the street would hear his voice booming through the big wisteria -hung window that looked down the hill . |
| 7 | Standing at the window that looked over the grounds , she thought back over her short stay here in the house , tried to see how it might have been different — and then gave a wry , sad little smile . |
| 8 | ‘ She had never been out of Italy before — now there she was without as much as a full day 's notice at Brown 's Hotel looking on top hats and umbrellas out of a window that worked like a guillotine . |
| 9 | Posi calculates a window that leads to a gap in their patrol , and we shoot through . ’ |
| 10 | While they had been delayed by Duvall 's attack on Devlin , the thing had withdrawn from the basement window and lurched through the storm to the front of the building . |
| 11 | He closed the window and said to the radio man , ‘ Send this message . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Rebecque went to the open window and stared into the heat haze . |
| 14 | They had a tiny room on the ground floor lit by a small leaded window and heated by an open fire from which as much smoke seemed to blow into the room as went up the chimney . |
| 15 | Next morning he popped his royal head out the window and inquired of a passing native where he was ( it had been a heavy night before ) . |
| 16 | He moved away from the window and walked into the adjoining bathroom . |
| 17 | It sailed out of the horizontally opening window and fell on the bowler hat of a ratepayer on the street underneath . |
| 18 | Cornelius glanced over his shoulder and then stuck his head out of the window and squinted into the distance . |
| 19 | A frisky April breeze , dancing around the houses and backyards of Walworth in search of inlets , found a partly open window and darted through the gap . |
| 20 | Primarily , the fact that nostalgia has been thrown out the window and crushed by the futuristic steamroller from hell . |
| 21 | When it seemed that the sound and whatever it emanated from was about to overwhelm us , the engine and coaches of an express train appeared in the left-hand window and whizzed past a few feet from the front bumper . |
| 22 | She went to the window and looked at the sky . |
| 23 | She relatched the window and looked for the deadlock key on the ring , but Carson said , ‘ I 'll see to that later . |
| 24 | When I opened an upstairs window and looked into the ravine ( this was in winter , so it was easy to see the tracks ) , Zverev 's works , and those of some other artists , were lying out in the snow . |
| 25 | Stok went across to the window and looked through the side of the curtain like they do in gangster films . |
| 26 | She strode over to her single window and looked towards the Cherwell , over the garden . |
| 27 | He opened his window and listened to the hiss and trickle of the fountain . |
| 28 | Mrs Blakey , recognizing that something was wrong , rapped sharply on the landing window and beckoned at the children . |
| 29 | During the day , position the large pair at the middle of the main window and draw in the centre of each curtain with tie bands to form two attractive drapes . |
| 30 | Bragg looked up angrily , then walked to the window and gazed at the church tower beyond . |