Example sentences of "[prep] [art] streets " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first people to leave went off hastily , while others lingered , girding themselves for the streets . |
| 2 | ‘ I do believe that girl 's beginning to grow up , ’ observed Brian , reaching for the jam as Camille left for the streets . |
| 3 | Almost all the surviving evidence for the streets is confined to the walled area which enclosed 8 ha ( 20 acres ) , even though occupation debris is known to be far more extensive . |
| 4 | Dobbs flight was headed for Birmingham airport , but police are in no doubt the cocaine was intended for the streets of Gloucester . |
| 5 | The princess sang along with old favourites such as The Streets Of London and My Liverpool Home — plus the hospice hymn Give Me Oil For My Lamp . |
| 6 | We walked for hours about the streets of Notting Hill and talked and talked . |
| 7 | I was chased mercilessly about the streets by my campaign assistant , Simon Heffer , who is now the chief leader-writer of the Daily Telegraph but whom I knew in those days as a fellow ( but younger ) old boy from Chelmsford . |
| 8 | I hear you want a black British warm for prowling about the streets at night . |
| 9 | men running about the streets of the towns . |
| 10 | In his classic manual , Working Lads ' Clubs , Russell argued that the principal aim of clubs was ‘ to provide youths of the poorer classes with an opportunity of becoming happier , healthier , and better citizens than they are likely to become if they spend their leisure in loafing about the streets ’ . |
| 11 | I think the fare in later years was half a crown return , and he would park up near the Post Office , so that people could come and leave their shopping with him instead of humping it about the streets . |
| 12 | Henry VI gave them a court leet in 1451 , which concerned itself largely with the minor social offences common to any medieval town ; poor-quality weaving and leaving dead animals lying about the streets seem to have occurred fairly commonly . |
| 13 | One official described outdoor proctors as men who ‘ hover about the streets leading to the courts , like so many ill-omened birds of prey , from early morning till late at night , and who have no trade or legitimate calling but who subsist by swindling . ’ |
| 14 | Paul walked about the streets . |
| 15 | As the Tory Party debated the ‘ make-believe gangsters strolling about the streets as if they are the monarchs of all ’ , the conference hall rang with an entirely familiar pattern of complaints and accusations : ‘ the leniency shown in the past by the Courts of this country ’ ; the ‘ lack of parental control , interest and support ’ ; the ‘ sex , savagery , blood and thunder ’ in films and television ; and the ‘ smooth , smug and sloppy sentimentalists who contribute very largely to the wave of crime ’ so that young people were ‘ no longer frightened of the police , they sneer at them ’ . |
| 16 | This plan is still very easily picked out today as one walks about the streets of Bury . |
| 17 | Quiroga , arrested as a suspect in 1819 , was allowed extraordinary liberties : he played billiards with brother officers , walked about the streets on parole , and Alcalá Galiano , agent of the Cadiz masons , actually passed the night in his cell . |
| 18 | but they were all dressed in bright colours and fashionable clothes and obviously thoroughly enjoying themselves , there are very few Jane Fonda 's walking about the streets of Washington or New York |
| 19 | They are well-built , neat and cleanly little chariots , with two good lamps ; and ‘ cut ’ about the streets like Tom Thumb 's coach . |
| 20 | One did not see uniformed members of the Partito Nazionale Fascista walking about the streets every day , but from time to time there were parades in which they could easily be identified . |
| 21 | If virtually nothing is known of the town defences , only a little more can be said about the streets . |
| 22 | Little extra information about the streets of the town , other than those already mentioned , has been recovered in the course of excavations , but it would seem that from present knowledge there was no regular grid . |
| 23 | It had been seen nine years before at Kangaroo island and in 1840 came to us in thousands — running about the streets and Gardens and into the houses as if it had never seen man before . |
| 24 | Why dost thou lead these men about the streets . |
| 25 | Why dost thou lead these men about the streets . |
| 26 | Why dost thou lead these men about the streets ? |
| 27 | Why dost thou lead those these men about the streets ? |
| 28 | Why dost thou lead these men about the streets ? |
| 29 | Why dost thou lead these men about the streets ? |
| 30 | The tops of the colours also were borne behind , a chariot , covered in black velvet where the body was , drawn by six horses , and the man that drove the chariot strewed money about the streets as he passed . |