Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the street " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agitated shopkeepers rushed out into the street when they saw the marchers approaching and tried to rescue their wares . |
| 2 | She was too stunned to really see the way the car shattered the wide expanse of glass and then she instinctively covered her face as jagged pieces flew out into the street . |
| 3 | Several nearby windows came up and a number of guns flew down into the street . |
| 4 | And its suggested ‘ activities ’ , like rearing silkworms , bore no resemblance to our gang meetings , where we planned raids on greenhouses , smoked cigarette ends picked up in the street or watched Brian Fish eat a live worm . |
| 5 | Prices came down in the street and as for having a purse snatched , well , such things did n't happen to army wives . |
| 6 | As Gerry and his fellow villagers talked of the better days to come , a carload of American tourists pulled up in the street beside him and asked for directions to ‘ Dannygal ’ . |
| 7 | The upper storeys of the dwellings leaned out over the street , giving them a drunken appearance , and the dim caverns beyond the light of the high street seemed to Isabel to mirror the dark side of this city of churches . |