Example sentences of "[v-ing] in the street " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Damiani could go to Jaffa , most of his fellow exiles are prevented forever from walking in the streets outside their old houses — or knocking on those front doors . |
| 2 | It is not long before the pictures deal with activities as well as objects : having a bath , going shopping , a visit to the clinic , and walking in the streets and in the country . |
| 3 | The people , the ones we see sitting about in cafés , or walking in the streets , also bear a striking resemblance to drawings by Toulouse Lautrec or Degas . |
| 4 | Germans were confidently walking in the streets when the alarm sounded but they did n't take it seriously and failed to go to air raid shelters . |
| 5 | I might see someone walking in the street , in an outfit I like , and think , she looks good . |
| 6 | The offender drove up behind the victim as she was walking in the street one evening with her daughter , aged two and a half , and attacked her with a hammer , striking her two blows on the leg and one on the knee . |
| 7 | Nobody intervened , although there were many people walking in the street , and when the two men had finished what they had obviously planned to do , they left as unhurriedly as they had come . |
| 8 | They were walking in the street , hugging the shade , yet Davide 's face was reddening , the sweat damped his shirt to his back , his pants to his groin , his feet to his socks . |
| 9 | ‘ They see him walking in the street late at night . |
| 10 | The number of people who have died on our streets is equivalent to a hundred thousand people dying in the streets of Britain , if that were happening , then the House of Commons would be packed to the doors everyday , until they got it sorted out . |
| 11 | Children living in the streets , peasants arriving from Sicily without an idea … |
| 12 | People passing in the street would hear his voice booming through the big wisteria -hung window that looked down the hill . |
| 13 | She was pretending to look at the people who were passing in the street , but Burun was not deceived . |
| 14 | Friends passing in the street may simply fling a quick ‘ hallo ’ at each other . |
| 15 | He 'd brought her not flowers , not fruit , but a little orange kitten , which he 'd found wandering in the street outside . |
| 16 | I mean one lady was found wandering in the street ! |
| 17 | Outside some drunks were shouting in the street . |
| 18 | They gazed down at the innocent football being kicked back and forth against the wall outside , the thwack of the ball booming in the street amongst the traffic noise . |
| 19 | Children were prohibited from smoking in the streets and the sale of tobacco to them became an offence . |
| 20 | Sir Ivor Jennings once said " If Parliament enacts that smoking in the streets of Paris is an offence then , in the eyes of the English Courts , it is an offence . " |
| 21 | For example , on one occasion a youth was caught urinating in the street late at might , and was very respectful and deferential when caught in the act , but , upon the policeman recalling that he had recently been one of a group which had shouted abuse at him , an act expected from gougers , he was arrested , and the incident was treated as a case of indecent exposure . |
| 22 | Just then the bizzies came and all the sirens started going in the street . |
| 23 | A teacher in the Transylvanian city of Cluj told the Guardian that she saw corpses lying in the streets after troops opened fire on demonstrators . |
| 24 | They tell of women murdered by Iraqi soldiers , because husbands or sons had joined the rebellion ; of heavy shelling of residential areas ; of summary executions of anybody suspected of aiding the rebels ; of bodies left lying in the streets . |
| 25 | Yesterday he backed their case with the story of those children lying in the street . |
| 26 | ‘ The five children were lying in the street . |
| 27 | ‘ She was found lying in the street . |
| 28 | He 's lying in the street with nowhere to go and no life . ’ |
| 29 | The open fields remained open for another generation — until the secret ballot came in 1872 , but by then grass was growing in the streets of the town . |
| 30 | Her only daughter , the apple of her eye , had been brawling in the street . |