Example sentences of "[verb] him [prep] the street " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man had approached him on the street while he was walking home , head down against the wind . |
| 2 | On one occasion ‘ heavies ’ approached him in the street and cut his throat , near to the jugular vein . |
| 3 | Her vacuum cleaner drove him into the street , in search of a coffee shop . |
| 4 | An eighteen year old 's been convicted of violent disorder after his victim identified him in the street . |
| 5 | And they 're just looking at you and your Mum s your Mum wants you to take him out properly , walk him down the street and you 've sneaked him outside and they 're just looking at you like this |
| 6 | " I seen him in the street Sunday , " said Fat Paul . |
| 7 | on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day . |
| 8 | As the inquest broke for lunch one relative cornered him in the street . |
| 9 | She had met him in the street . |
| 10 | He stopped his patrol car to investigate and Vernage simply slaughtered him in the street , cutting off his police radio to stop him calling for help . |
| 11 | Cuddling on the couch with your husband in front of other people is frowned upon just as much as kissing him in the street . |
| 12 | We followed him across the street and down crumbling cement stairs into a fetid basement that stank of excrement , a place two feet deep in sodden papers , envelopes , parcels and stained government forms . |
| 13 | Vologsky followed him across the street and into the park . |
| 14 | ‘ We need him as president because it takes him off the streets , ’ said his close pal , David Leopoulis . |
| 15 | Whores did this , after all , a dozen times a day and would not recognize the man should they meet him in the street an hour later . |
| 16 | After approaching him on the street and ushering him into the house he told the boy ; ’ Welcome to the Devil 's Kingdom ’ and threatened to kill him if he did nt co-operate . |
| 17 | She went to the window and watched him into the street , then into his car , then out of sight . |
| 18 | He looked full of himself but Cameron steered him across the street into the privacy of his store before he would let him talk . |
| 19 | If they chose to greet him in the street , he did not acknowledge them . |
| 20 | I would n't have known him if I met him in the street . |
| 21 | The rich merchant thought the children should always salute him and call him ‘ sir ’ when they passed him in the street . |
| 22 | Bricks rained around him , crushing him into the street . |
| 23 | It seemed a little drastic the way they frog-marched him through Casualty and tossed him into the street . |
| 24 | She tells him about the street she was brought up in , its granular asphalt pavement ridged with long wavering bulges where they had been dug up to get at the gas and water mains , and overhung by waterfalls of laburnum , with front gardens marked off by low walls , some of them in crenellated brickwork , some in pebble-dash with decorative chains dipping above them that you could set swinging , one after another , as you walked by . |
| 25 | Mario Zupanovic has n't had anyone stopping him in the street for autographs yet . |
| 26 | It invariably ended with Uncle Titch pretending to get cross with the clown on stilts and chasing him along the street on his fat little legs and trying to kick him up the bum and falling over backwards . |
| 27 | A BUNGLING shoplifter tried to flog a pair of Marks and Spencer shorts — to the store detective who had followed him into the street after seeing him nick them . |
| 28 | I saw him on the street the other day |
| 29 | But he emptied the house of its demanding lodgers , some of whom subsequently abused him , when they saw him in the street . |
| 30 | And a Romanian woman in London swears she saw him in the street as he dived into a taxi . |