Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the window " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once married and committed to their partner , they may find excitement has flown out of the window . |
| 2 | Local accountability has gone out of the window ; Ministers no longer even talk about it , because they know that it is not a reality . |
| 3 | We believe that the principle of accountability in local democracy has gone out of the window under this Government . |
| 4 | She 'd moved over by the window and had been reaching for a chair , but now she stopped . |
| 5 | Got a wardrobe like ours and then oh no it is n't it 's a combination one it 's having to go up through the window let's hope they do n't drop it ! |
| 6 | I could not have looked out of the window if I had tried , the chores were all done , and there was nothing whatever to do except sit at that table and write . |
| 7 | And when Benn started hitting him with those big shots in the 11th , the textbook should have gone out of the window for the animal instinct to take over but he did n't have it the way I had against Benn and Michael Watson , unfortunately . |
| 8 | Lee remembered when a sparrow had flown in through the window of her bedroom when she was a child . |
| 9 | Suddenly spotting the rear view of the vehicle , he had leaned out of the window , and was using his R/T to contact his base . |
| 10 | Sarah , who had leaned out of the window to see the house , sat down again , smiling and blinking at the water drawn into her eyes by the cold and the wind . |
| 11 | Times I 've , I 've sat up at the window trying to wa watch her coming round two o'clock in the morning hoping that he 's fallen asleep down in the armchair . |
| 12 | As I entered , Miss Kenton had turned back to the window . |
| 13 | Her daughter , who had turned back to the window on her mother 's entry , sulkily moved a pile of film magazines and dropped them on the floor . |
| 14 | As she gathered up the bedding and cushions she had hung out of the windows to air before the evening earth began to exhale dew , she wondered whether she should fetch out her best mantilla , the white lace her mother had given her for her first communion , which she never wore because it seemed so showy , and had n't worn even yesterday for the Easter Mass . |
| 15 | Frye had moved back to the windows again , to watch Duvall and Pearce battling their way through the storm to the car wreck . |
| 16 | I had to stare out of the window . |
| 17 | He looked out , only half-focusing , until it seemed the fires were burning in his room , or else his reflection had stepped out through the window to roam the park like a ghost . |