Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] the [adj] street " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the inner-city I steer shakily over the Liffey and through the cobbled streets and mixed primary colours of old Dublin , through a wide stretch of bleak , bland suburbs and onto a motorway . |
| 2 | His bid to halt the cycle route was defeated and the committee recommended allowing access into and through the High Street in both directions for cycles at all times . |
| 3 | The car sped noisily away from the marina and into the narrow streets of the town . |
| 4 | Out of the car park … then round the corner and into the High Street , full of fat old housewives and layabouts , past Woolworth 's and into Tesco 's — perhaps I can lose them among the counters . |
| 5 | The workers in gold spilled out of the Goldsmiths ' Bazaar and into the surrounding streets and alleyways . |
| 6 | Many are taking their trade away from the main thoroughfares and into the back streets where they take people to market and bring children back from school . |
| 7 | I almost ran up their exhaust pipe as they turned right off Plumstead Road down the side of a school and into the back streets . |
| 8 | Rohan parked the car under some trees just outside the main wall , then they walked together through an arched gateway , and up the shaded street , passing between tall houses , their windows firmly shuttered against the intrusive sun , intermingled with shops . |
| 9 | On one December Saturday , Hannah sat in the Craven Herald Bookshop in Skipton and people queued through the premises , out of the door , down an alleyway and along the High Street . |
| 10 | er Summer of nineteen forty is the fifty year er commemoration of the Battle of Britain , er and this began as a book display and spread outwards , out of the library and along the high street . |
| 11 | Like the crowd at the airport and in the main street of Danu waving the malai flag of green and white . |
| 12 | He thought of a Socialist future for his half country , and conceived the hope of a job in which he might have the luck to be gripped by some stupendous ire of work , trying to avoid the spectacle of the people around him and in the wet street outside , which pointed out a fraternal indifference in the world that was the last perception he cared to harbor . |
| 13 | The building to the rear and on the High Street , known as Mylne 's Court , is used as Salvesen Hall and Philip Henman Hall . |
| 14 | He stood for a moment , looking up and down the dark street before quietly entering the passage . |
| 15 | Aggie looked up and down the narrow street ; then , taking a chain with a lock attached to it from under a piece of sacking in the corner of the cart , she pushed the cart close to the gate , and tied a leg of it to the iron post . |
| 16 | With dusk , I was forced to leave the tavern , and paced up and down the muddy street for warmth . |
| 17 | I remember as a young man walking up and down the main street of the 1951 South Bank Exhibition for the sheer pleasure of it , and thinking how marvellous it would be if every town could have a street like this . |
| 18 | Men sat outside the cafés discussing business , chatting or playing briscola , a card game , as they sipped glasses of lambrusco , while we young girls walked up and down the main street and through the square on what was called the passeggiata , the promenade , hoping that we attracted the eyes of the boys who gathered in little groups . |
| 19 | She looked up and down the quiet street , where the lights made golden leafy spaces in the trees . |
| 20 | Wycliffe decided on a walk and his walk took him along Green Bank and down the High Street , where crumbling houses and shops were being rejuvenated or demolished , into the main street . |
| 21 | Not from the beach — I think the salt there would probably kill hookworm — but in the back streets of the town , where the sewage system was n't what it might have been , and also walking around on the wooden deck of an old schooner sailing to Aldabra . |