Example sentences of "window [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Across the road to the butcher 's where they looked in the window to see back at the reflection of Hogan 's Outfitters and realise that Sean Walsh had gone back inside to the empire that would one day be his . |
| 2 | Nader Nadirpur stood by the balcony window looking out over the avenue . |
| 3 | When Hari returned she saw that Craig was standing at the window looking out into the darkness . |
| 4 | It was an open window looking out onto the wind-rippled waters of the Tigris and across to the Al Jumhuriyah and Al Ahrar bridges and over to the tower blocks of the foreign-money hotels . |
| 5 | The kitchen opened into a very pleasant sitting-room , which had a door leading to a little dairy on the right and then to the stairs which had a half landing with a tiny window looking out at the back . |
| 6 | When we went into the foyer , there was a uniformed porter on duty at the desk and a small dark man in his early fifties standing at the window looking out at the rain , a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth . |
| 7 | The window looking out on the yard and garden was magnificent , had twenty panes , each about 12 inches × 10 inches , a beautiful example of workmanship from the eighteenth century , the counterweighted sashes still working perfectly . |
| 8 | She sighs , and sometimes she hums a little , and then she is silent because she is standing by the window looking out on the yard and turning the rings on her finger round and round . |
| 9 | The kitchen was bigger than he had supposed ; it had a stone floor with a large square of matting , an open grate and a tiny window looking out on the rising ground of the headland . |
| 10 | Or again late at night as I stood shivering at my bedroom window looking out on the frosted garden , unable to sleep and unable to understand why . |
| 11 | The old grandma who was holding the girl 's hand looked across at him as he walked to the window to stare down into the street to watch for Eddie . |
| 12 | She swung her legs over the edge of the bed and went over to the window to look down at the courtyard . |
| 13 | Through the open French window leading out into the garden , Matt could see Cindy sitting on a swinging bench with Emma 's children on either side of her . |
| 14 | One table lamp by the window shone on to the Chinese figures . |
| 15 | I stood by the window staring out into the foggy darkness , taking deep breaths to try and stifle some hollow feeling of new disease . |
| 16 | Its window blew out as the jet , packed with holidaymakers , was heading to Malaga in Spain . |
| 17 | The room was depressing : the single window looked out on the narrow street ; there were net curtains as well as heavy , red velvet drapes drawn half-way across . |
| 18 | Her window looked out of the back of the house , onto what had once been a small garden . |
| 19 | Fell from a second-floor window smack down on the flagstones not a yard from where you 're standing . |
| 20 | The ground plan normally consisted of three main rooms , the baggage room and the waiting-room at each end , with the office between , usually with a bay window projecting on to the platform to afford the station agent a view up and down the tracks . |