Example sentences of "the window and [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucker closes the door , the window and seals the curtains meticulously . |
| 2 | So , putting video into a window simply involves restricting the video image to the area designated as the window and replacing the background colour in that area by the video . |
| 3 | She sat back in her chair by the window and let the hot air play over her face . |
| 4 | He looked out of the window and heard the cries from Cheapside , the clatter of carts , the rattle against the cobbles of iron-shod horses going towards Smithfield and the horse market . |
| 5 | Boy stood outside the window and imagined the things he might see inside this magazine , should he ever take it down off the high shelf and open it , perhaps in the privacy of his room or perhaps right there on the street at five o'clock . |
| 6 | I leave no footprints under the window and use the same ladder to shut the window and force the catch back . ’ |
| 7 | In the city , I stood at the window and identified the cars as they breezed by . |
| 8 | He stepped back from the window and rejoined the German . |
| 9 | but it looked black from up there , so I er opened the window and rattled the venetian blind and I thought you 'd 've heard that erm and it shot out there , whether it went underneath the gate , can they get through under the gate ? |
| 10 | After Hannele had gone from view , Edward turned from the window and surveyed the bed . |
| 11 | Tom stared out of the window and chewed the end of his pipe . |
| 12 | One Saturday at about 3 o'clock when the 2.47 had not long gone through and he had put the ‘ line clear ’ through , he was standing at the window and saw the lad . |
| 13 | She looked out of the window and saw the brown strip of plough , and then the line of willows marking the river , and then the green slopes rising , dotted now with the first sheep of the year . |
| 14 | She stared out of the window and saw the stars and a bright moon . |
| 15 | I looked out of the window and saw the gardens at the back of the house . |
| 16 | Just then Tobermory looked out of the window and saw the doctor 's big yellow cat crossing the garden . |
| 17 | As they accelerated away Joseph turned to stare out of the window and saw the peasant jump up and break into a little celebratory caper in the middle of the road . |
| 18 | Schellenberg frequently did , but when he went to the window and saw the powdering of snow in the streets he laughed . |
| 19 | Cardiff turned back to the window and wiped the fog of his breath from the glass . |
| 20 | Unfortunately for him , the lady 's husband had also spotted his illicit signalling from the bedroom and grabbing his machine-gun he went to the window and shot the hang-glider pilot and all out of the sky in a hail of bullets . |
| 21 | Behind them a young man with a paint-flecked beard followed the designer about the set , twitching the hem of the velvet curtains hung at the window and rearranging the ornaments on the mantelpiece . |
| 22 | ( 7 ) John left the window and drank the wine on the table . |
| 23 | Philip shut the window and took the camouflage jacket his Mum had been going to throw out . |
| 24 | He wiped a peephole from the condensation on the window and viewed the world beyond . |
| 25 | I washed and shaved and had breakfast , then sat down by the window and read the morning newspaper . |
| 26 | Chiding herself for her reflex reaction of fear , Meryl strode to the window and examined the catch . |
| 27 | ‘ Once they were shy , ’ he told me , ‘ but now they attack because the white man … ’ he pointed an imaginary rifle at the window and pulled the trigger . |
| 28 | He 'd gone to the window and pulled the curtain back , looking at the dampness and the wire and the swimming-pool , the surface ruffled by rain . |
| 29 | He says that he was operating when a bullet wizzed in through the window and hit the surgeon next to him . |
| 30 | And when the lightning had forked inwards through the window and shattered the typing-pool window , Gilbert had turned back to Rohmer in helpless appeal . |