Example sentences of "[v-ing] out [prep] the street " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're a bit cold when you 're walking out on the streets . |
| 2 | Street activities have increased by 60 per cent in Moabit and there is evidence elsewhere too of cafés , shops and restaurants spilling out into the street . |
| 3 | What I want , would like to see , and I think is in your interest and the public 's interest is actually to , to not just be responding but to be , to be reactive but to be pro-active , and to be going out onto the streets as it were . |
| 4 | You talking about going out on the streets , it does n't get them anywhere half the time . |
| 5 | ‘ Just a minute , ’ said Sergeant Davidson , going out of the street door with a bucket of water in his hand . |
| 6 | But he had to restrain himself from leaping up and switching the light off and peering out into the street from behind the curtains . |
| 7 | You 're getting out of the street anyway are n't you ? |
| 8 | I shook his hand , before stepping out into the street . |
| 9 | There was a woman standing at one of the second-storey windows when Gentle reached the intersection , just gazing out at the street . |
| 10 | She stood in the darkness , gazing out at the street . |
| 11 | Instead , she went and stood by her bedroom window , staring out into the street below , where the lamps cast their pale orange light over the pavement . |
| 12 | After a quick glance back through the shop ( Maisie and Ruthie were staring out at the street in silence ) Henry slid one sheet of the printed paper into Gordon 's typewriter . |
| 13 | As the room slowly slipped into darkness , the lowering skies bringing on an early evening , Patrick sat by the window , staring out onto the streets below , listening to the noises in the bathroom as Jane gently hummed to herself . |
| 14 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 15 | The road dipping down into town and the bar with its brown tin roof and its dusty verandah , and a woman running out into the street , hair horizontal in the air behind her , strings of wooden beads swinging in a loop around her neck like a cow 's jaw chewing , her mouth wide open , a wedge hewn out of her face , as if someone had taken an axe to her , as if her mouth was a wound and her screaming the bleeding . |
| 16 | There 's all this steam coming out , sort of billowing out onto the street , and if I stand in it , it feels real warm . |
| 17 | Erm , I 'm slightly more concerned though about security in this building and in some of our other main buildings and it brought it home very starkly to me and I 'm sure to all members of the board when we arrived at our meeting a few weeks ago and spent er over two hours standing , we did n't stay out , more or less standing out in the street and . |
| 18 | Our William was left standing out in the street for half an hour soaking . |
| 19 | I was doing chequebooks and cards , and I had a very good run on them for about four months , but what with taking drugs and that I collapsed one time when I was working out on the street . |