Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the street " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , black has come up from the streets and into the drawing room ; overleaf , neutral tones assert themselves . |
| 2 | Several times she has wandered out into the street while Mrs Smith was asleep , although now the front door is kept double-locked at night to prevent this from happening . |
| 3 | Now , with the same director , part of the original company , and an influx of the new wave of circus talent that has surged up from the streets something magical has happened . |
| 4 | This one , he said , pointing to Bobby , he had had to pick up in the street . |
| 5 | ‘ His bike 's not there , ’ he said helpfully , having gone up into the street to look . |
| 6 | They had never met before , but as soon as Duroc was inside the Agency 's inner sanctum , the Chief Op looked up from his blondwood desk , flashed a monied piranha grin , and acted as if his visitor were an old college buddy who had happened to have walked in off the street . |
| 7 | It is not the student returning but a flood of visitors — a lady coming to teach Hungarian to students about to visit Budapest , a social worker sorting out a student with severe memory loss whose phone is about to be cut off , a personnel officer from the Civic Offices to recruit potential employees from students on the scheme and one or two others who just seem to have wandered in off the streets . |
| 8 | People who seemed to have wandered in off the street . |
| 9 | These are n't just people I 've picked up on the street and thought , Ooh let's show some kooky S&M now ! |
| 10 | McAllister looked at him from under the long dark eyelashes which had won his heart from the very first moment when he had seen them , on his sofa , adorning the unconscious girl he had carried in from the street . |
| 11 | He relished hearing the stories that Orton told of masturbatory sessions in public lavatories , of men he had picked up in the street , of having sex in shop doorways , of the sizes of his acquaintances ' organs and of his experiences with venereal disease . |
| 12 | But here was a youth so far ahead of his time that if he had turned up on the streets of London sixty or seventy years later , he would still have been recognised as a sure sign of an alarmingly unrivalled degeneration among the young . |
| 13 | I 've seen out in the street mountive er mounted police charging down rather like the Battle of Balaclava and inside the station problems arising and it 's nasty to be involved and in those days I 've travelled on a Saturday afternoon often . |
| 14 | I had to walk out into the street to find my way home as if nothing had happened . ’ |
| 15 | The crowd of women and the big man had gone out into the street , but the thin man remained ; and he looked from the child towards the closed door before he , too , turned and went out . |
| 16 | I mean the other morning I looked down and somebody had thrown up in the street |
| 17 | He walked beside them on the pavement , three abreast , so that pedestrians coming towards them had to step out into the street . |
| 18 | You are scarcely accounted a Christian in Chile until you have got up in the street and given testimony to Jesus . |
| 19 | In practice , if not in spirit , there is a complete divorce between the ground floor , full of people who have walked in off the street , and the upper floors , where research and development on both hardware and software for the Third World take place . |