Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] into the street " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would suppose it was shortly after four o'clock that I left the guest house and ventured out into the streets of Salisbury . |
| 2 | She heard him picking his way carefully down the spiral staircase at the back of the tenement and stood by the window , looking down into the street . |
| 3 | Nuala crossed to the window and perched on the ledge looking down into the street below . |
| 4 | ‘ The church clock was striking ten as I came up into the street from Custom House Quay . ’ |
| 5 | I slunk out into the street feeling like a prisoner on parole . |
| 6 | Street activities have increased by 60 per cent in Moabit and there is evidence elsewhere too of cafés , shops and restaurants spilling out into the street . |
| 7 | Turned out into the street , most of them , every morning — Cara knew well — while their mothers went to the mill , a ragged band of infant desperadoes , all under the magic age of nine when they too could be put out to labour . |
| 8 | After a fashionably elevenish dinner at my hostal-Pension , in a small green dining-room lit by blinding neon , I strolled out into the streets where the sellers of lottery tickets were still in full cry — ‘ Para hoy ! |
| 9 | When we spilled out into the street a few minutes later , it was in a kind of glow . |
| 10 | As the day wore on , more and more people came out into the streets . |
| 11 | He went into the college hall , and registered himself for matriculation among a rowdy assembly of students younger than himself ; and came out into the street to find that it had started to rain . |
| 12 | The men finished the house and came out into the street . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I had to walk out into the street to find my way home as if nothing had happened . ’ |
| 15 | But he had to restrain himself from leaping up and switching the light off and peering out into the street from behind the curtains . |
| 16 | As darkness fell there was hardly a soul about , but just before 9pm it seemed the whole village poured out into the street , and there appeared two men carrying shoulder-high the most grotesque straw figure of a man , its eyes glowing in the darkness from torch bulbs hidden in its head . |
| 17 | So , I 'll now lift up the the curtain and look out into the street and see if there is any sign of them . |
| 18 | Seven years … but still every now and then one of them will suddenly run out into the street screaming . ’ |
| 19 | He puts himself in good light by adding that he gripped me tightly round the shoulders in reassurance , that he gave me brandy , that we talked long after the starlings had ceased their chatter , that we walked down into the street and discussed in jogging stride what guilt or shame or desire could do to the human soul . |
| 20 | She knew the Spanish liking for these little snacks and she stepped down into the street , a little surprised to find herself the focus of several pairs of eyes . |
| 21 | Downstairs smoke-rooms sent the odour of fine Havana leaf up into the street to mingle with the scent of fresh-roasted coffee or the exhaust of an occasional motorcar . |
| 22 | Corbett left that terrible shop without a word to Ranulf and Maltote , and walked out into the street off Faltour 's Lane . |
| 23 | I left two dollars and a half-eaten bacon sandwich on the table and walked out into the street . |
| 24 | The men exchanged glances and , apparently concluding that Koogan meant every word he said , stepped back into the street . |
| 25 | ‘ You and I might as well be getting back to Zimmerman 's , Richter , ’ said Moreau as they shuffled out into the street . |
| 26 | With a murmur of thanks to the portiera she stepped out into the street . |
| 27 | Concealing his pain as best he could , knowing the driver might pass on by if he thought the hailer was wounded , he stepped out into the street , and raised his hand to wave the driver down . |
| 28 | He joined his superior at the door , pulling up the collar of his jacket as they stepped out into the street . |
| 29 | The landlady , a woman in late middle age with a beehive hairdo and a face like fallen stone , gave no reaction , and Joe stepped out into the street and raised his arm for a taxi . |
| 30 | This eminent theologian rushed out into the streets to greet the astonished passers-by with the words : ‘ Christ is risen , he is risen indeed ! ’ |