Example sentences of "stand in the street " in BNC.
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| 1 | We prefer that prostitutes should stand in the streets to be picked up by passing cars ( not the roomiest place for sex ) , in constant danger of being beaten up and even murdered , and that valuable police and court time be wasted in arresting , convicting and imposing heavy fines on girls who , unable to pay , return to soliciting even harder , that pimps should come into being to batten off the girls , and that women who are not prostitutes should be harassed by cruising motorists who will not take no for an answer . |
| 2 | The competition was intense and the shop managers would actually stand in the street touting for business . |
| 3 | ‘ Quite impossible … but do n't stand in the street . ’ |
| 4 | Erm , and we , we find although Amnesty does run er door to door collection which we are always encouraged to join in which we never have , which is I think always in June , in June now , it 's good time , it 's a good time of year for it , but that means going round putting envelopes in doors , going back and collecting them , the arguments on the doorstep about Amnesty , er going back again if people are not in and we , we as a , relatively small group covering a very big area we , we have n't felt able to do that , and we actually find that by standing in the street with each person having a tin for one or two hours , we can do quite well that way and er , that 's , that 's . |
| 5 | The complete context picture depicted a young man standing in the street serenading his girlfriend who is looking out of the window at the top of a tall block of flats . |
| 6 | Underneath that I have another article to which was kicked out sometime later but I have it in here , it says , raid on Gdynia would surprise to Nazis to say refugees in Sweden tell how the non Germans cheered in the streets but the two refugees eye witnesses to the American Bombing Attack on Gdynia , October ninth , reported here that the raid caught the Germans by surprise and that non German workers stood in the streets and cheered amid terrific destruction . |
| 7 | CBS Records were inside holding their annual international conference , and Elvis stood in the street performing a selection of his songs using a small portable amplifier , just as his debut single ‘ Less Than Zero ’ has just been released . |
| 8 | Donegal ; the other where he stood in the street . |
| 9 | On the morning of November 18th , when Wilson stood in the street to wave goodbye to the Brownings , it was hot enough for her to want to move into the shade as soon as they had gone . |
| 10 | McCrea stood in the street looking sorrowful and dejected . |
| 11 | As the car drove off , Chrissie stood in the street and watched it out of sight . |
| 12 | The foyer of the theatre was ablaze with lights , music drifting from behind closed doors carried to where Hari stood in the street with William at her side . |
| 13 | Rain stood in the street with the open page in her hand and cursed Wainfleet for not telling her about it . |