Example sentences of "[adv prt] into the [adj] street " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I recall her pacing the sitting-room while I am doing my homework , pausing every so often to stand at one of the windows and look down into the busy street below . |
| 2 | Bunny stood at the window and stared wearily down into the lamp-lit street . |
| 3 | Rosa saw no one from her hideaway in the dark arch of their carriage door and so she stepped out into the gleaming street , which felt good and solid , under the warm soles of her feet ; her heart was thumping , but that too felt good . |
| 4 | We walked out into the dark street . |
| 5 | He lifted Leonora into the passenger-seat then leapt up to back the vehicle out into the narrow street , waving his thanks as a weather-beaten old man slammed the garage door shut with a wide smile before waving them on their way . |
| 6 | When you stayed away from me , I would try in vain to will you back beside me : then , long after the dinner I waited for you to share but had to eat alone , I would wander out into the stony streets , hoping to bump into you , to glimpse you sitting in a bar or on a park bench : |
| 7 | After a leisurely meal it was out into the sun-drenched streets again , replete and relaxed , in boisterous good-natured company , for an excellent coffee and a cigar . |
| 8 | He walked slowly out into the hot street . |
| 9 | Before the startled merchant could think of a reply , Cranston had taken Athelstan by the elbow and steered him out into the sun-baked street . |
| 10 | In Sutton , the wires came out into the High Street and ran a short distance to the right to run round a small green at Bushey Road . |
| 11 | Another waiter came , and together they threw Soapy out into the cold street . |
| 12 | He hunched his shoulders and stamped his way defiantly down the rest of the stairs and out into the cobbled street . |
| 13 | With her mind reeling , Merrill walked ahead of him down the stairs and out into the windy street . |
| 14 | ‘ Nothing of the culture celebrated by Camus survives ’ — except , I add now , stepping out into the sundrenched streets , the light . |
| 15 | She gathered her pages of notes and went out into the sunlit streets . |
| 16 | They walked back out into the sunlit street together . |
| 17 | Sikes made no reply , but , pulling open the door , ran out into the silent streets . |
| 18 | He ran out into the wet streets saying he would find a taxi . |
| 19 | As he walked back into the hot street he wondered if some royal bastard did indeed lurk in her family tree . |
| 20 | As they talked they had moved out of the pub , back into the sunlit streets . |
| 21 | I picked up my bag and went back into the cold street . |
| 22 | ‘ Where are we going now ? ’ she asked as he swung the car back into the main street . |
| 23 | One takes me along St Mary 's Villas and Barrowclough Road , past the old municipal baths and the new DIY and wholesale paint centre ; while the other means cutting down Lennox Gardens , taking that street whose name I always forget into Rumsey Road , then past the row of shops and back into the High Street . |