noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a glass window/door
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The doors had two round glass windows in them.
a window display (= in the window of a shop )
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I stopped to look at something in the window display.
a window of opportunity (= a time when you can do something )
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The other team started making mistakes, but we didn't take advantage of this window of opportunity.
a window/aisle seat (= one next to the window or the space between seats, for example in a plane )
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I'd prefer a window seat, please.
bay window
bow window
door/window/picture frame
French windows
lattice window
picture window
rose window
sash window
storm window
the bedroom door/window etc
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Did you shut the bedroom window?
window box
window cleaner
window dresser
window dressing
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All these glossy pamphlets are just window dressing – the fact is that the new mall will ruin the neighborhood.
window ledge (= narrow shelf below the window )
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There’s some money on the window ledge .
window seat
window shade
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bay
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A gilt harp sits in the bay window of the sitting room.
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It is a converted living room of a Victorian with bay windows .
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She came round the side of the house and looked in at the bay window .
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Brownstones, balustrades, bay windows , wrought-iron.
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They had a drink before dinner sitting in a bay window , watching dusk creep up on Dunkery Beacon.
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It overlooked an alley, and the bay windows were sun-blocked by the townhouse at 93.
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The stonework around the bay windows was crumbling and the upper front bay had developed a distinct list.
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The little girls retreated to the padded bench in the bay window .
french
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Vaughan occupied a smaller studio-bedroom, which also had french windows , on the lower ground floor.
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Resolved not to waste further time on account of this childish affair, I contemplated departure via the french windows .
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When she emerged, the wall-lights had been dimmed and the polished table by the french windows had been set for two.
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She looked through the french windows .
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Taking a deep breath to steady herself, Peach slid through the french windows from the terrace.
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David pushed open one of the french windows and they found themselves in the library.
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Over Elliott's shoulder, Culley could see Goldman wrenching at the handle on the french windows .
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A plainclothes man was examining the french windows .
front
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The space station filled the front windows .
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Across the room, facing the front windows , was a large railway stove with a metal footrest in front of it.
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Through the front window lay a sprawl of hills, but the window above my bed butted the neighbour's garage.
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The front window was at street level.
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I was strong enough next morning to go and look out of the front window .
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So I shall have to slip into my flat by the front window .
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His deviousness and dishonesty were in the front window for all to see.
large
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Edouard examined the jewellery carefully, standing in the north light of the atelier's large window .
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All staterooms are outside with large picture windows and private bathroom facilities.
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Slater stood outside the gallery, in front of one of its large windows .
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It got a new chassis, smoother styling, larger windows and a reworked interior.
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The nave and choir can have no triforium or clerestory so must be lit by exceptionally large aisle windows .
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The façade is richly decorated with a central sculptured portal and large window above.
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It was lit by a large sash window having sixteen panes.
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Most bedrooms boast a large arched window , and past renovations have left a blended style of marble and iron.
open
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Claire sits in the open window of John's kitchen, a cup of jasmine tea warming her hands.
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Inside, close enough to an open window to hear the crow, Wyatt was packing.
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The hours passed, daylight faded, and the sounds of a warm September evening came in through the open window .
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Topside, the snow softened the air and a cold wind spits flakes through an open window on the bridge.
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It was irregularly paved, and lit only by an open window a few storeys above.
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Birdsong drifted through the open window and a breeze puffed out the curtains.
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Birds twitter outside the open window as the nuns scrutinise each graph and diligently take notes.
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I think it was an hour, I closed my eyes and dreamed of young men singing songs from open windows .
small
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Two quite small triangular windows were provided that angled back into the cabin.
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There was a small window on either side of the cabin.
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He looked through the small windows , then motioned for Forster to join him.
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With newer computers, the program appears in a small window in the center of the screen.
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Dusky light came from the two small front windows between the toothed leaves of nettles.
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The Bruins pulled even on their power play despite a small window to work with.
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The building was sideways on to me, the light coming from a small semi-circular window near the top of the wall.
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That wall has small windows near the ceiling.
■ NOUN
bedroom
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We used to have a family of martins nesting directly over our front porch, just under my bedroom window .
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Scherr had run to the upstairs bedroom window .
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Across the street one of his neighbours was leaning out of a bedroom window , calling for her cat.
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Through the bedroom window , Converse could see Mr Roche hosing down the lawn behind his bungalow.
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Clara's first glance of Candida Denham was through Clelia's high bedroom window .
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Bill stands by the bedroom window .
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Morning sun filtered through swaying branches at the bedroom window .
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Mrs Davison was injured when she jumped from a bedroom window and still has to use a crutch.
box
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He often writes home about his window boxes .
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There, perched on the window box with her nose glued to the other side of the glass, was Violet.
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If you don't have one, get a window box or hanging basket.
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What if Saddle River, New Jersey, has a lot of window boxes ?
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Most gardeners will want to grow them in hanging baskets, window boxes and tubs.
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Balconies and window boxes along canyon walls maintained refugia of plants and animals hundreds of miles from their core distributions.
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Worth considering are species producing six or more flowers per bulb - Tete A Tete is ideal for window boxes .
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Plants stood in tubs and window boxes , in terra-cotta pots on the steps.
car
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She looked away from him, out of the car window , seeing nothing.
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He was staring out the car window .
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Two of them blocked her exit from the car park while the third smashed the car window to grab her handbag.
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Even with the car windows left open a crack, the temperature inside can reach 120 degrees in less than 30 minutes.
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Cantor gazed out the car window , brows knitted.
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It teems with saleswomen who run beside the traffic sticking various baked goods through car windows .
cleaner
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The plaintiff window cleaner was instructed by his employers in the sill method of cleaning windows.
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It may only be coincidence that the window cleaners were around last weekend when this incident occurred.
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Window problem: The huge expanse of windows on Darlington's new Cornmill Centre has presented window cleaners with a headache.
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Defective windows were a risk which window cleaners should guard against.
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The hearing was told that Mr Gannon, a self-employed window cleaner , died of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis.
display
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It was a glitzy split-level shopping centre with brightly lit window displays of expensive fashions.
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But it was a good window display .
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This shop was still open, but Boy stayed outside, looking at the window display .
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Inset A window display advertising Cook's many services.
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Their village post office has helped by providing them with a window display of Wild Thing models.
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Window dressing isn't visual deceit if the window display accurately represents what the school is about.
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The talk of promotion schemes and window displays was hard to listen to.
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She could almost be happy when she was serving customers or, better still, changing the window display .
frame
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It rattled the window frames as Nellie and her daughter sat talking.
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The window frames rattled in the wind.
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The long, low church is decorated by paintings all over the exterior and interior walls, openings and window frames .
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When Joe inquired about these details, the duke said that gilded window frames were economical because they required no repainting.
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The prisoners were actually making complete items of furniture, doors, window frames , pottery and jewellery.
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He held on to the window frame with one hand while he scraped paint with the other.
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The window frames rattled violently and glass cracked with the sound of a pistol shot.
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He put an ordinary fan in a window frame and somehow conducted cool water through coils in front of the whirring blades.
glass
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Maxwell spent £350,000 on the house, installing a stained glass window and glitzy Fifties Neptune statue in the hall.
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On Halloween, children come and paint the plate glass window .
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They lift their eyes to the darkened stained-\#glass windows and begin to sing.
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Sunlight streamed into the church and through the stained glass windows , and a smell of grass and flowers permeated the air.
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Tired but unable to sleep, I looked out the huge glass windows at streetlights and thought about home.
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There was a row of frosted glass windows down one side, each fitted with an electric fan.
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The original stained glass window was destroyed by vandals in the 1960s and replaced by a plain glass one.
kitchen
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I can see him from the kitchen window you see.
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At least seven shots were fired into the apartment through a kitchen window .
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They saw her plainly from the kitchen window when they ran to watch.
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He sat for a long time, staring up at the Klubocks' kitchen window .
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She glanced out of the kitchen window .
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Nick tossed three bags of gold through the kitchen window , and the three daughters married soon after.
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Outside the open kitchen window , the wind groped over the twilit fields.
ledge
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Bernadette Pollock, 32, climbed a drainpipe on to a window ledge after losing her keys.
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Maybe it was already fated that I should fall from a window ledge .
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Jump along the window ledge , dropping down to spray the bin, now jump the three aliens.
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He indicated a gadget upon the window ledge .
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Spray it and then use the wrench on it, jump on to the window ledge then on to the door.
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He turned and saw that the window ledge was about three feet above him.
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He placed it carefully on the window ledge behind the curtain.
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Then leap on to the window ledge of Toys N Stuff, then the door and spray the plant pot.
picture
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Now, at the Mirage, Ali stands and walks stiffly towards the picture windows overlooking Las Vegas.
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Some one looking through the picture window spotted Lois before she got more than half way up the front walk.
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The picture windows shattered, and the bar cracked apart where the bullets went in.
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Although it is July, the house has a Christmas wreath hung in its picture window .
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Next door, where Ed Preston lived, somebody is watching me from the picture window .
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All staterooms are outside with large picture windows and private bathroom facilities.
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He was standing in the dark, in front of a picture window , fireworks exploding silently behind him.
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He fixed the bedroom and picture windows , glazing the edges of the glass with care.
sash
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It was lit by a large sash window having sixteen panes.
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Blanche forced the screwdriver up into the crevice between the two halves of the sash window and heaved.
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Now the sun was creeping back into their lives through the sash windows .
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Long dark blue silk curtains hung at the elegant sash window overlooking the creek.
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The large sash windows open up to embrace the beautiful surrounding countryside.
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I wanted a tin of suitable outdoor paint to coat two new sash windows I'd had fitted.
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Fine-slatted Venetian blinds show off the tall sash windows , which are too elegant to be obscured by curtains.
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One straight forward solution for sash windows is to allow minimum fullness in the curtains themselves and tie them back tightly during daytime.
seat
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He paused by the window seat , a replica of one he had noticed at the other end of the gallery.
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They supply fresh insights, infuse you with energy and give up the window seat without complaint.
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Breathlessly she flung herself down on the window seat .
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Opposite the princess, in the other window seat on this side, was the movie star Lulu Bell.
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Paul offers Bill the window seat .
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Clarisa passed him over to me at the window seat so she could pull out a change of clothes.
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Cara sat on a deep window seat , Laura beside her.
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Marge sat down on the window seat , and tucked her hair into the bandanna.
shop
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The shop windows , the synagogues, the cleaning of the streets.
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That evening, he and Dooley walked Barnabas to the monument and looked in all the shop windows .
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When she first saw these combs in the shop window , she wanted them.
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She turned to face the shop window .
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Alison Edwards suffered three deep cuts in her face when she accidentally fell through a shop window .
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Glance at myself in a shop window: no.
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The violence apparently escalated as white and black youths turned over a bus and began smashing shop windows .
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One or two of the shop windows nearby were lacking glass, while others had a white star painted on them.
■ VERB
break
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One tankard hit the ceiling, another broke a window .
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He had to break a window in the basement to get in.
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Those broken windows were miraculously replaced in sunny May in anticipation of a visit from the first lady of the country.
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I broke a window at the new police station in Reading.
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Rather than betray the others, Stockdale broke a window and slashed his wrists with a jagged shard of glass.
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They broke through the upper windows and tumbled down in the middle of us.
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About eighty were injured, and most of the property damage was limited to broken windows and overturned cars.
clean
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The women even cleaned their windows .
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But cleaning your windows is not the uncomplicated, value-neutral endeavor you thought it was.
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After she had polished the furniture, she cleaned the windows .
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Before she cleaned the windows , she polished the furniture.
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As it happens, the most convincing way of pretending to clean a window is to actually do so.
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And Dad had cleaned the kitchen windows .
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Amy - or some one - had cleaned the little windows , all six of them.
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Don't get carried away, though and vacuum the sitting room and clean the windows in your break!
close
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She would have closed the window , except that then Anna would probably be unable to sleep for the heat.
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Billy closed the window and hid the sticky spoon.
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Here, be a sport, could you close that window ?
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The warmth inside made them lively, and they started bouncing against the closed windows .
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Some one could follow you home after overhearing your conversation. Close all windows and lock them when you go out.
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Faintly, through the closed window , I could hear the barking of Angus.
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Why didn't you just say no and close the window ?
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I close the window again with a smug smile on my face, and wait for the next battalion of eager buzzers.
gaze
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Dean shrugged his shoulders and we both gazed out of the window .
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Stretching out on his back, he gazed through the barred window at a faint strip of sky.
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I gaze absently out of the window , wondering.
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That Casey rocks, he hums, he gazes out the window .
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Ricky gazed out of the window at stars as sleepless as himself.
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Toni thought, gazing out the water-smeared windows .
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He is also replacing his receiver and turning to gaze thoughtfully out of the window .
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Cantor gazed out the car window , brows knitted.
look
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I turned to look through the windows .
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Ezra said, looking out the window , hardly able to see the water behind his own reflection.
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Reynolds looked out of the window across the campus.
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The President looked out the window at the scudding clouds, put on the overcoat, then took it off.
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By coincidence, Mr Connolly was looking out of his window four weeks later and spotted Watson preparing to attack another pensioner.
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Paul D looked through the window above his feet and folded his hands behind his head.
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He looked through the small windows , then motioned for Forster to join him.
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I look in the windows of the Topaz from New Hampshire.
peer
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As ever, Erika peered through her window for a moment or two.
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They climbed up on a ledge and peered in a window .
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Frédéric peers in at a window .
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She plops down on the empty cot and lifts a curtain to peer out the window .
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She climbed stairs and peered through wide windows at the canyon and the forested land that stretched away to south and west.
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Shoppers peered into gallery windows and children basked in the afternoon sun, licking ice cream cones.
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At the kerb the taxi's diesel engine idled noisily as a passenger's face peered uncertainly through the window .
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There, onlookers peer in through the windows , looking at the strange mess inside.
roll
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The black-out curtains which were rolled neatly above the windows stood out starkly against the light green walls and wooden skirting boards.
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John and Tom rolled the windows up.
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The sound of water, when Ward rolled down his window , was a solid roar that overlaid everything.
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This chest was thereafter kept in the choir and was rolled to the window and opened upon request.
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I stripped off his underpants, rolled down the window and held him in the air.
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A pickup came down the road and they rolled up their windows to keep the dust out.
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I got into the car and tried to roll the window up.
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They waited for the dust to settle, then rolled down the windows .
shut
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Philip shut the window and took the camouflage jacket his Mum had been going to throw out.
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He shut the window , a sudden pain shooting up his back.
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He stood up from his chair, paced around, shut the window .
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They kept quiet while the caretaker came to shut the windows in the evening.
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I have to shut the windows .
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His blackness shut off the blue window , the blessing hands of the Virgin.
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Julia would not shut the window but sweated and shivered by turns.
sit
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Hugh sat in at the window .
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Marge sat facing the window , listening to the wind until it faded into a greater stillness.
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And the princess herself sat up at the window of the tower, watching.
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We sat by a plate-glass window which separated us from the life of the street.
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Bob put down his papers at last, and sat looking towards the window .
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I sat down by the window and tried to unwind.
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Cara sat on a deep window seat, Laura beside her.
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In the next room Dinah sits at her window praying.
smash
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Two of them blocked her exit from the car park while the third smashed the car window to grab her handbag.
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Able to smash vestibule windows with a single brick.
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The violence apparently escalated as white and black youths turned over a bus and began smashing shop windows .
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They broke in, smashing windows and doors and draping a flag out a second-floor window.
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Several months later she was arrested for climbing the scaffolding and smashing a window at the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square.
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Thousands of blacks swarmed into the streets, attacking policemen, pulling fire alarms, smashing windows , and looting stores.
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The man went berserk, smashed a side window and climbed on to the roof of the moving vehicle, police said.
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Two men in the car ahead of him simply walked back, smashed the car window , tried to pull him out.
stand
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He went and stood by the window .
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He stands outside the window looking in at shoppers in the bright warm light of the store.
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Chapter Ten At ten-thirty next morning Captain Maestrangelo stood at the window in his office looking down intently at the street.
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I am fourteen years old, standing behind the window of the bakery where I work to earn my spending money.
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But in that hour I stood by the window , it began in me.
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She stood by the window , and looked out at a grey cat on a grey wall in the grey road.
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When he came into the room, she was standing by the window with Mrs Dodge.
stare
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In the end, she got very bored with staring out of the window at all the greenery outside.
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At four, he awoke exhausted, and lay staring at his moonlit window until dawn.
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I noticed her hanging around the bar, staring through its window , while I ate my fish and potatoes.
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She sat with her hand at the side of her head as she stared out of the window .
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Maggie stared out of the nearest window , but all she could see was.
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She had kept her neck painfully turned and strained to stare out the window at the street scenes.
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She stood trembling, staring at the blank window , feeling smaller than a baby.
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One day she stands, through our entire class, staring out our second-floor window .
throw
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We have thrown windows wide to let it in.
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He threw it out the window .
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The first ring was thrown out of a window after a row.
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She looked up and saw that Hicks had thrown Eddie against the window .
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Both of them were wary, but at least Hayley didn't throw herself out of the window .
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I want to rip them up, stamp on them, throw them out the window .
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At his command all four took off their masks and tracksuit tops and threw them through the windows on to the garage floor.
turn
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She turned to the window , a deliberate shutting out, praying he would go now that he'd had his say.
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It is iron I enjoy, not gold, he says, as he turns from the window .
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Nessie went to sit by her son and Nellie turned again to the window .
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I turned toward the window and pushed it wide open.
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He turned away from the window abruptly, pulling himself together.
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At intervals lights were being turned on in store windows .
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It was when she turned away from the window that she saw it.
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He had just turned from the window , intent on leaving, when the woman walked back into the room.
walk
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One morning not long ago he saw a fox walking past this same window .
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I got up and walked over to the window .
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He walked across to the window , and producing a knife ran it round the paper sealing strip, then opened it.
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I walk over to the window and comment on the flowers.
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He walked to the window and gazed down through the net curtains.
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He got out of bed and walked to the window .
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He walked past a shop window , + peeped in, to see what was there because he liked shops.
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The young man could watch Theresa walk past a window .
watch
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I went to the window to watch , obscurely thinking something was wrong.
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He sat at a table right by the window so he could watch his Baby.
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While waiting for the kettle to boil, she stood at the window watching the rain.
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He was standing over by the windows watching hummingbird in the shrimp plant.
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A group of women prisoners were leaning out of the second-floor window , watching the visitors approach the building.
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Then I watched him from the window .
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Out of her window she watched the wind whisking fallen leaves along the gutter into pavement-high stacks of yellow and brown.
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He went to the window and watched the cars, beat-up minis and dusty sedans, entering and leaving the compound.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
force a door/lock/window
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He'd forced a window to get into the ground floor maisonette in the Belmont area of Hereford.
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House raid: Intruders forced a window at the front of a house in Ripon.
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The forced door especially terrified me.
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The burglars are believed to have forced a window.
frosted glass/window etc
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One of the tables, set behind an opaque frosted glass screen, is semi-private.
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The Controller's acknowledging smile was as brittle as frosted glass.
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The front door was open, revealing a stone-flagged porch, and an inner door with frosted glass in the top half.
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The headmaster appeared at the frosted glass of the door.
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The lack of a lock on the one and only toilet was compensated for by the frosted glass panels in the door.
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The taps rattled the frosted glass again.
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There was a row of frosted glass windows down one side, each fitted with an electric fan.
lancet window/arch
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At the west end is a beautiful pointed window, and at the east end three lancet windows.
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He whiled away the time by contemplating the stained glass lancet windows behind the preacher and the holy table.
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Plasteel mullions divided the narrow, high lancet windows of stained armour-glass.
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The courtyard was overlooked by the lancet windows of the manorial home itself, and a large chapel.
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The fact that this contains three lancet windows shows that this was once a building.
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There was a patch of light from the lancet window making a pattern on the floor of the chapel.
louvre window/door
pop-up menu/window
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For that reason, he rejected pop-up windows.
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One pleasing exception is the new pop-up menu feature.
roll a window down
roll a window up
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Could you open a window ?
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Early in the history of the planet, the climate conditions opened a window of opportunity that allowed life to form.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A faint blue glow was shining from the observation windows and glimmering inside the open airlock.
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Cold air seeped in through the shattered window with a moan.
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He greets an old woman as she peers through the window of Patel's newsagent shop.
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I caught it, held it in my fingers and put it out of the window .
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I lounged on the couch in the attic sitting-room, pyramidal in shape with deep-set windows.
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The ancient church of St Mary, with its beautiful east window , was at one time the parish church of Drypool.