Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] street " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1907 it had been noted that nickelodeons were opening up on every American street and it was not hard to account for their success . |
| 2 | Faced with a new branch of nationwide chain opening up in the next street leading to falling sales at one 's own bookshop , a bookseller might go for interviews with customers leaving the new store . |
| 3 | Today , I think people would say that a lot of what we did in those early days has been influential in the general brightening up of the high streets in this country . |
| 4 | Ruth asked one afternoon as they sprawled under a shady carob tree , hot and exhausted after climbing up through the narrow streets of a village to find a goat track that led up a hillside to a secluded olive grove . |
| 5 | His room was on the first floor of the college , looking down into a narrow street that ran beside it . |
| 6 | They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ? |
| 7 | The crowd was still thickening , filling back down the high street , but it looked like time to start . |
| 8 | On the landing , looking out over the High Street , Aziz , wearing new brown overalls bought for him by the headmaster , seemed to be waving to his friend . |
| 9 | But I thought , sitting there on the side of my bed looking out over the trash-filled street with the sound of the trucks grinding and roaring down the thoroughfare , that He must be something like the sun rising out of the ocean on a cloudless day . |
| 10 | One night in London , nearly a year later , a servant girl was sitting at her bedroom window , looking out at the moonlit street . |
| 11 | Erm with chimney sweeper was waiting down in the high street he was waiting there whoa said Mr to the donkey , the donkey was wondering probably whether he was so without listening to a word of warning he jumped on him |
| 12 | Born Alfredo James Pacino he is still haunted by memories of growing up on the mean streets of New York 's South Bronx where his street gang pals called him The Actor . |
| 13 | ‘ Nothing of the culture celebrated by Camus survives ’ — except , I add now , stepping out into the sundrenched streets , the light . |
| 14 | But coming in from the shabby streets outside , which smell of coal and cement dust and Wartburg exhausts , the effect is of life and excitement . |
| 15 | ' On each side of this extensive structure there is a street running down to a wider street at the back , which is 40 feet in width , including the footpaths . |
| 16 | So here I am , a week later , aloft in the canopy of my monkey-puzzle tree , staring out across the darkening street , waiting for my love to come home . |
| 17 | Earlier rate cuts are beginning to filter through the economy and the retail trade is making optimistic noises about shoppers coming back to the High Street . |
| 18 | Well I 'll be done because I usually go for the paper Rose , quite often Harvey 's said she 's coming out along the High Street five past at five past eight on a Monday morning . |
| 19 | There are more and more opticians springing up in the High Street , shops selling healthcare equipment and equipment for the elderly are on the increase and shops are becoming more aware of deaf and disabled customers . |
| 20 | Archaeology has , however , revealed a growing number of very characteristic narrow rectangular structures stretching back from the available street frontages and often forming blocks or rows . |