Example sentences of "window and [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While they had been delayed by Duvall 's attack on Devlin , the thing had withdrawn from the basement window and lurched through the storm to the front of the building . |
| 2 | He closed the window and said to the radio man , ‘ Send this message . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Rebecque went to the open window and stared into the heat haze . |
| 5 | He moved away from the window and walked into the adjoining bathroom . |
| 6 | It sailed out of the horizontally opening window and fell on the bowler hat of a ratepayer on the street underneath . |
| 7 | Cornelius glanced over his shoulder and then stuck his head out of the window and squinted into the distance . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Primarily , the fact that nostalgia has been thrown out the window and crushed by the futuristic steamroller from hell . |
| 10 | She went to the window and looked at the sky . |
| 11 | She relatched the window and looked for the deadlock key on the ring , but Carson said , ‘ I 'll see to that later . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Stok went across to the window and looked through the side of the curtain like they do in gangster films . |
| 14 | She strode over to her single window and looked towards the Cherwell , over the garden . |
| 15 | He opened his window and listened to the hiss and trickle of the fountain . |
| 16 | Mrs Blakey , recognizing that something was wrong , rapped sharply on the landing window and beckoned at the children . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Bragg looked up angrily , then walked to the window and gazed at the church tower beyond . |
| 19 | But as I turned to go downstairs , my landlord , thinking he was alone , threw himself on the bed , pushed open the window and called into the darkness . |
| 20 | Being a French-built helicopter , the rotors do not appear in the right hand window and vanish from the left one , as they would in an American-built machine . |
| 21 | I gaze out of the window and see in the distance a flash , like a tourist 's Instamatic , of lightning . |
| 22 | He stood to one side of the bay window and watched beyond the net curtains . |
| 23 | Nuala crossed to the window and perched on the ledge looking down into the street below . |
| 24 | She hesitated a second and then as the headlights dimmed she went across to the window and peered through the Venetian blind . |
| 25 | LIKE a child playing secret games , Sinead O'Connor crept up to the window and peered into the cosy room . |
| 26 | The character disappears from the window and reappears in the Scrap . |
| 27 | He walked over to the window and tapped on the glass . |
| 28 | The driver leaned out of the window and shouted at the lad , sounded his horn twice , then drove on . |
| 29 | He walked over to the window and sat on the sill . |
| 30 | For at last the witch was weakened by Carmellina 's guile , and hoisted her to her feet , and pulled her over to the window and pointed down the stony path that led to one of her lair 's doors , and to the Indian fig cacti growing there in bat-eared monster shapes , and said , ‘ I 've always fancied a new little number , made to measure , of stuff woven from prickly-pear skins , bit of red for excitement , but mainly green , it 's so elegant , do n't you think , with long sleeves and a full skirt sweeping around me , with a bit of a train … . |