Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] street " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wherever we might finally strike the balance , it seems clear that whereas nostalgia for the once-safe streets and the once-quiet youth is phoney , we can be equally sure that those who sensationalised the ‘ pistol gangs ’ sometimes got carried away with themselves . |
| 2 | There was some kind of festa that day , for the narrow streets and the Corillo were dense with merry throngs of students and the tuna was playing in the Plaza Mayor . |
| 3 | The walkers are expected to be grateful for the left-over street space that is allocated to them and to not object when more is taken for road widening and comer-shaving , or when motorists use the remaining pavement to park on . |
| 4 | If we like them enough to invest , we will either cut our spending ( bad for the high street and the recovery ) or switch savings from other institutions ( notably the building societies ) putting pressure on them to match those terms . |
| 5 | The master of shock frock Fashion Editor tactics is Gianni Versace , whose bondage dresses have set supermodels like Cindy Crawford on fire — and are so distinctive that it 's easy for the High Street to copy , so that cage-style dresses are now everywhere . |
| 6 | Cordless power-tools are doing for woodworkers what Fast Food did for the High Street over a decade ago . |
| 7 | His remarks were made when the environment and general services committee were discussing pedestrianisation plans for the High Street , along with an advisory cycle route through the centre . |
| 8 | That thought in particular kept her warm as they left the restaurant for the bitter streets of the city . |
| 9 | Some think nothing of virtually waving the keys to a room at the homeless , forcing a decision between the freezing streets , with your dog , or the cosy indoors — by yourself . |
| 10 | An ancient wall formed the boundary between the High Street and the Brook . |
| 11 | And as Old Mother Potts would n't allow men visitors , and Len did n't like dancing , it had been pretty dreary just walking about the wintry streets together . |
| 12 | When I say ‘ armed ’ , I 'm talking about the usual street weapons : knives , machetes , razors , chains , bottles and sticks — not guns . |
| 13 | It was one thing to boast afterwards of pre-breakfast hiking , quite another to be actually seen leading this freak of nature , this abortion , about the public streets . |
| 14 | For history work it involves pupils instantly in using evidence ( Attainment Target 3 ) as they search for clues about the high street in former times , — looking at building frontages ( especially the part above the shiny modern shopfront ) , hunting for coal-holes , lamp brackets , investigating letter boxes and many other things , measuring the width of the street in different places . |
| 15 | Through the middle-of-the-night streets , seem to have forgotten how to drive , is this the gear lever ? |
| 16 | The small town of Alnwick was bustling with people , and Roman drove through the crowded streets slowly . |
| 17 | But it was not the kind of station that has taxis waiting outside it , and the two ladies were forced to walk through the crowded streets , now full of people doing their weekend shopping . |
| 18 | Owen had borrowed for the day some skilled police trackers , men who could follow a trail , or a man , even through the crowded streets of Cairo . |
| 19 | Mr Singh and i drove through the wide streets of New Delhi , empty now but for a few pilgrims washing under the public pumps near the shrine of Nizamuddin . |
| 20 | God alone knew what the traffic would be like on the freeway , through the mean streets of Edgware , down to the inferno that was the A406 , on through gloomy Tolworth and Chessington , out to the no-man's-land that was Leatherhead . |
| 21 | He drove through the poorest streets of Paris , and some of the richest ones , and at length , shortly before midnight stopped the car in a wide and gracious street of tall and beautiful houses . |
| 22 | A lorry was waiting outside the station and we all got in , driving through the well-lit streets which were full of people . |
| 23 | Soon the car was moving slowly through the snowy streets of the town . |
| 24 | We dropped the others off , and now the big shops would be left behind as we waded through the gloomy streets of Fulham . |
| 25 | At that hour a cab would be ages getting through the twisting streets of the old city and across the Thames to Rotherhithe . |
| 26 | He made his way through the twisting streets of the harbour district , crossing the little squares where the market traders were spreading linen sheets on the ground before decking them with neat conical piles of vegetables and spices whose reds , yellows and greens shone out brightly against the white . |
| 27 | After the nightmare images conjured up by John and Charles it was reassuring to drive through the historic streets of Sandwich and return to the sane world of the golf tournament . |
| 28 | The taxi drove the Campbell and his hostage through the historic streets of Edinburgh . |
| 29 | The following Sunday , soon after eleven o'clock , a woman walked quickly through the dark streets towards London Bridge . |
| 30 | He breaks the news as we cruise through the dark streets in his Capri . |