Example sentences of "who [verb] [prep] the street " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie now recognized the voice of Faith Caskie who lived across the street . |
| 2 | Most of the other people who lived in the street were professionals , a doctor , two more lawyers , a manager . |
| 3 | Tally , of Tally 's Corner , is another key informant , and Liebow ( 1967 ) acknowledges that this may mean that the account given in the book is more that of Tally himself than of others who lived around the street corner . |
| 4 | ‘ The man who lives down the street at No. 23 . |
| 5 | Kay O'Neill , who lives in the street , said her house was worth much more than one may think at first glance . |
| 6 | ‘ I felt like Coleridge 's Ancient Mariner , who waylays on the street the wedding guests going to the feast , inflicting on them the story of his misfortune . ’ |
| 7 | Many of the young people who came onto the streets of Bucharest on 21 December 1989 , to protest against the Father of the Nation faced a bleak future of under-employment in a poorly planned industry . |
| 8 | Oxford was ‘ full of forbidding old ladies ’ who hovered behind lace curtains , waiting to report children who played in the street too noisily . |
| 9 | IN THE terrible days of moral uncertainty that we have experienced when public awareness seems to be fading , it is to you I speak , you who live , who walk in the streets , who breathe , who enjoy life with your family , your children . |
| 10 | Or in Goffmann 's own example of the man who trips in the street , to his own and no one else 's inconvenience , who then feels it necessary to retrace his steps and conscientiously examine the sidewalk — as if to establish the impression that the fault lies in the pavement and not , as might otherwise be suspected , in the nervous system of the person concerned . |
| 11 | As the world 's most famous political prisoner , his emergence at the age of 71 after 27 years in prison was a moment of jubilation for black South Africans , who poured into the streets for prolonged celebration once news of his release was confirmed . |
| 12 | Then he went up and down the room holding a walking stick , just like the old gentlemen who walked in the streets . |
| 13 | Stendhal immortalized the city in La Chartreuse de Parme , describing the beautiful women who walked in the streets as Madonnas who had just emerged from the paintings of Correggio and Parmigianino . |
| 14 | The true story of a major league baseball star who went from the street corner to stardom and then to armed robbery but is saved from destruction by a one in a million chance . |
| 15 | They hold as high positions as that and they run ministries , and I 'd like to add that in Kuwait the number of women deans in the Kuwait university is the highest in the world , so the woman is working side-by-side by the man , and we are very proud of them , we always have been , and especially after the invasion when I was in Kuwait on the fourth day the people who went in the streets chanting against the Iraqui invasion were the Kuwaiti women . |
| 16 | The name derives from the number of goldsmiths who traded in the street in earlier times . |
| 17 | Those who died in the streets attempting to get away suffered the same agonizing fate and were stifled by the fumes . |
| 18 | Those coal heavers , weavers , sailors , labourers and others of the lower orders who took to the streets in 1768 were to a large extent caught up in a political moment which coincided with longer-running economic grievances . |
| 19 | They looked like a collection of the pallid child revolutionaries who emerged on the streets of Moscow after the Revolution . |
| 20 | People who live on the streets lose self-esteem . |
| 21 | Though residents find little change in the quality of living under these arrangements , they are generally pleased with the traffic calming that has resulted , though less so than those who live in the streets that have been completely rebuilt . |
| 22 | Most people who live in the street agree that it 's not children from their road who are the culprits . |
| 23 | Many of the new arrivals , who waited in the street outside the embassy , said they were convinced there would be another train for them . |
| 24 | It is estimated that there are around 9,000 women who work on the streets or in the bars of Olongapo as prostitutes or ’ hospitality workers ’ . |