noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a city street
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Traffic was moving slowly along the city streets.
a crowd lines the street/route etc
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A crowd lined the street to catch a glimpse of the president.
a high street bank (= one of the ordinary banks that most people use )
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There's a lot of competition between the major high street banks.
a street corner
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There’s a newspaper shop on the street corner.
a street demonstration (= in the streets of a city )
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A street demonstration completely blocked the centre of the city.
a street fight
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There were reports of street fights every night in the local newspaper.
a street gang (= which spends a lot of time on the streets )
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He belonged to a notorious street gang which terrorized a Chicago suburb.
a street lamp
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Harry stopped under a street lamp.
a street map
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There's a street map outside the town hall.
a street party (= one held outside in a street )
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Thousands flocked to the street party on Princess Street to celebrate New Year.
a street protest
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There was a ban on street protests.
civvy street
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I bet your family will be glad to see you when you get back to civvy street.
cross (over) the road/street/river etc
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It’s easy to have an accident just crossing the road.
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He was hit by a car when he tried to cross over the road near Euston station.
cross street
Downing Street
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Downing Street declined to comment on the allegations.
Fleet Street
high street banks/shops/stores etc
high street
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Camden High Street
Main Street
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The President’s new proposals won’t go down too well on Main Street.
maze of streets/paths/tunnels etc
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the maze of narrow streets
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I was led through a maze of corridors.
narrow street/road/path etc
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a long narrow road
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the narrow passage between the cottage and the house
prowling the streets
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gangs of teenagers prowling the streets
roam the streets
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You shouldn’t let your children roam the streets .
side street
street children
street children (= living on the streets because they have no homes )
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The organization aims to help street children in Latin America.
street cred
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It’ll wreck your street cred if you’re seen helping the police.
street crime (= crimes such as robbery committed on the streets )
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There will be new measures to tackle street crime.
street lighting
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Better street lighting might help to reduce crime.
street market (= with a lot of different people selling things from tables, stalls etc in the street )
street people
street value
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Detectives seized drugs with a street value of almost £300,000.
street vendors
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the shouts of street vendors
the street value (= the amount that users will pay for illegal drugs )
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Drugs with a street value of £1,600 were found in the car.
throw...out on the street (= make us leave our home when we have nowhere else to live )
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I knew he would never throw us out on the street .
two-way street
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Marriage has to be a two-way street.
Wall Street
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a drop in share prices on Wall Street
wandering the streets
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He was found wandering the streets of New York.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
back
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We drove along the back streets .
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Auguste, the bouncer he picked up in the back streets of Montreal, squeezes my windbreaker before letting me in.
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And this was how many such agents lived, in rooms in the back streets of cities.
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The result is evident in the back streets and courtyards, which Atalla judiciously avoids with a foreign visitor.
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Iain and Tommy drank together on the back streets of Pinner.
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I have found one must speak slowly to people who live in the back streets of London.
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I got Armstrong fired up and headed towards Hackney, using the back streets to avoid the worst of the rush hour.
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And the kind of food and wine that would cost a few francs in a back street cafe.
busy
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For the last couple of weeks, I had two posters in my windows, facing on to a fairly busy street .
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Puffs of hardened car exhaust linger in the air on busy streets .
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The smell of stewed eels streams from a steaming vat into the busy street .
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She was in a narrow passage that crookedly connected two busy streets .
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In this pouring rain on a busy street corner in Paris, I watch her face go soft with recognition.
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The hotel is situated in a busy shopping street close to many attractions including the Leidseplein, Vondelpark, and Rijksmuseum.
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It was busy on the street .
empty
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Down in the housing scheme there was hardly a noise; the lamps fizzed quietly on the empty street .
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He gazed down the empty street , and then across it to the marsh, and saw her.
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Katherine gazed out at the empty Manhattan streets .
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Ralph waved at the empty street awhile; even the gas fumes seemed to be evaporating before he was ready.
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The bridges were empty and the streets silent.
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The rain fell on empty streets .
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Now she was rattling along the empty streets , the horse's hooves sounding sharp and crisp in the silence.
high
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The Orb's appeal has spread silently to the high street .
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The high street banks typically charge more than 18 per cent for an authorised overdraft.
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Well away from the high street , the members of the City of London Law Society have slightly different concerns.
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Many groups will make models of their village or their high street as it was in the past.
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This seems highly unlikely at a time when high street stores are holding sales before Christmas.
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Moneyfacts, the savings and loan information group, selects the following best buys from high street institutions.
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Many are being refitted with the same smart new decor which will make them easier to spot on the high street .
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Further reading 2 Practice development Introduction Most high street practices will undertake a certain amount of personal injury litigation.
main
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Our house is just off the main shopping street of Tintagel, so there is always a lot of traffic going by.
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The last time that happened was in 1950, when Manvel's main street stood a foot deep in water.
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Away from the main streets there was less damage.
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Other new retail ventures include a new coffee bar and a 24-hour diner on Main and Fourth streets .
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But new measures have been taken, and sweeping machines constantly ply the main streets collecting rubbish.
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They followed the road into town and lost sight of the harbor as they came down the main street of shops.
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He also owned a shop on the main street , selling hardware and tinned foods and some garden produce.
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In the distance the several chains of lights indicating the main streets of the city were blurred, like tears.
narrow
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He led Lucien on to a narrow street lined by tiny, dark shops.
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When Jodzis did not pull over, officers used a car as a roadblock on a narrow street .
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Wing tips on each aircraft were removed and deposited in the cockpit for passage through the narrow streets .
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Little had changed on the narrow streets of the Colonia Cucumacayan.
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It was in a narrow side street and there were only a few people watching.
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City walls, narrow streets , open shutters, old women sitting outside in the early evening.
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They went back to their house through the narrow streets , using a complicated route in case anyone was following them.
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A natural harbour, set between two rocky headlands, forms a centre point from which narrow streets wind uphill.
quiet
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Here in the quiet side street everything remains polite and formal.
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It was a quiet street , a block or two long.
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He saw himself go inside, a fellow on a quiet street doing ordinary things, unafraid of being watched.
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The once bustling riverside is now a quiet street , with many of the old buildings well preserved.
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She walked slowly through the quiet streets , wondering if Dana and Roman would be cosily together in her flat.
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Explosions were continuing in the paddy field, but they began a conversation as though on a quiet street .
■ NOUN
bank
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But the new decade also promises to revolutionise high street bank branches yet again.
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Career development loans are also available from high street banks .
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Even the lower rate makes the offerings from other high street banks look miserly.
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Representatives from the world of high finance included chartered accountants and members of the major high street banks .
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The Midland's financial weakness became a source of worry to the other high street banks .
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Ten years ago, the high street banks were piling into investment banking.
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Future Mortgages offers decent deals for people turned away by the high street banks and building societies.
city
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Driving away into the city streets , she'd never felt so alone or so friendless in her entire life.
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It envelopes various city streets that will be closed to traffic and even much of San Diego Bay.
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It's a far cry from the ragged, skinny reality of city streets and the rural hinterland.
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We were driving down another city street .
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Miles of city streets are taken over by stalls offering tiny banknotes and articles of all kinds for sale.
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The city streets were magic again, like they were when stoplights went dark after the quake.
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They drove through the brightly lit city streets of Tsimshatsui, and it was like hurtling back to earth through the atmosphere.
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This electoral scheme would not unclog city streets , struggling as always with more traffic than they were meant to handle.
corner
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On a street corner in the bustling city centre Petrona Sanchez, a lottery saleswoman, is equally bewildered.
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She says that most desirable street corners already have one or more of the two chains.
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She was only dimly aware of the approach of the two boys who were walking swiftly from the street corner .
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Today even 16-year-old boys on street corners look up to those who attend college.
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On one street corner a dusky Moorish maiden, the next a Nordic blonde.
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We wait in different places; the car park of an estate, a street corner in Archway.
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He focused on older kids, because he saw too many of them on street corners getting into trouble.
crime
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The 1989 Home Office report found that victims of burglary become more fearful of street crime as well.
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Yet, viewing the Situation rationally, there are no old perpetrators of street crimes .
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More police officers visibly going about their business is the most commonly advanced solution to street crime .
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Citizens in inner-city areas are desperately worried and rightly so, about street crime .
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Manchester police have an even simpler explanation for the current rise in street crime .
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From there they go to Madrid and Barcelona, where they are already being blamed for an increase in street crime .
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Apart from a few pickpockets in Rangoon, street crime does not exist.
gang
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They asked: were there really no girls in youth cultures and street gangs or had sociological accounts made them invisible?
lamp
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Yellow street lamps looked lurid in the greyness.
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We end up, unexpectedly, in an alley outside the hotel, and Lip walks down toward a street lamp .
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I said goodbye to her under a street lamp .
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Mr Sammler, back walking the streets , which now were dark blue, a bluish glow from the street lamps .
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A street lamp shed light over the front part of it where the boardroom table stood.
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Clean horizontal light from the street lamps entered our apartment.
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The fine red-gold of his hair was like an angel's aureole against the street lamp .
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The eerie grid of a city was spread out before him, lit by the chemical yellow of the street lamps .
market
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And what evil demon had prompted her to drive past a street market which all the gods knew she couldn't resist?
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Converse crossed the square and found a street market in the shade of the church.
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I drove through a street market , up and down hills, in and out of alleyways, through tarpaper shacks.
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But I've stopped off at a street market on the way over for socks and shirts and thin garish underpants.
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Most businesses and street markets opened normally.
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She adored shopping for bargains and street markets and would have got on well with Cherry.
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My house is right in the middle of Stratford-upon-Avon, and I can watch the street market from my window.
protest
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One year missing from this litany of successful street protest is 1981.
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Recent street protests have drawn only a few thousand demonstrators, fewer than in last December.
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Angela Phillips, 1998 daring to mount street protests against the sending of their menfolk into war zones.
shopping
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Our house is just off the main shopping street of Tintagel, so there is always a lot of traffic going by.
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In just ten seconds a peaceful shopping street is transformed.
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The hotel is at the end of the main shopping street in a busy part of the village.
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And second, it must be conceived and laid out in such a way as to support existing shops and shopping streets .
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The hotel is situated in a busy shopping street close to many attractions including the Leidseplein, Vondelpark, and Rijksmuseum.
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Situated in a quiet location, the hotel is about an eight minute walk from the resort's main shopping street .
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At that time North Shields had a set of Victorian shopping streets .
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They met, in fact, in the main shopping street , several minutes from his office.
side
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Brownlow went down in the lift, found his car in the side street and got in.
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I was reminded of the quiet, old houses along the side streets of South Vermont.
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From a side street , police in full riot-proof regalia emerged to split the crowd in two.
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In Boston, the main roads were clear Monday, but some side streets were snow-filled and sloppy.
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It was in a narrow side street and there were only a few people watching.
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Julio points to a side street that opens on to the avenue directly across from them.
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Here in the quiet side street everything remains polite and formal.
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Police helicopters hovered and riot police were posted around the square and nearby side streets .
■ VERB
cross
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Marcelle entered his room seconds after she saw him cross the street from her window.
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We crossed the street , I felt sick.
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He crossed the street , carrying the book bag by its drawstrings, heading for the parked cop car.
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Then he crossed the street in front of the National Gallery, glancing up at the massive edifice of the building in the process.
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He was crossing the street and moving eastward.
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Berthe Weill shrugged and crossed the street after him to the catcalls of the crowd.
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He crossed the street with his new black sneakers springing into the alley.
crowd
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People crowded in from the streets , everybody danced and sang and drank and laughed.
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He missed his son and always looked for him on crowded streets .
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In the crowded streets of the capital it is hard to tell whether people are going about their business or simply wandering.
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The fights in Seattle were broken up with pepper spray when as many as 4,000 people crowded into the streets .
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Thousands of people crowded into the streets during the day, converging on the government offices to demonstrate support for Koffigoh.
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It had been very crowded in the street because of the stalls.
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Pissing into the air above a crowded street is just one of his exploits.
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He hurried across the crowded street level with such haste and obvious alarm that shoppers turned to look after him.
desert
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And, as he coasted towards Maple Drive through the suburb's still deserted streets , Henry thought about nice things.
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He walks through deserted snow-lined streets and arrives at the graveyard to find Sue already kneeling beside the headstone commemorating their children.
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The driver let us out on a deserted street , which he judged to be near the receiving center.
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Shops were shut and offices closed, trams stood still and even rickshaws had disappeared from the deserted streets .
hit
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Equipped with such information, I decided it was time to hit the streets .
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We bounced over the railroad tracks in Fresno and hit the wild streets of Fresno Mextown.
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With its packages yet to hit the street , Clarify figures its technology will cop the leadership position.
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But after the officer leaves, Michael grabs his sleeping bag and hits the streets .
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The service is currently in beta testing and should hit the streets in the first quarter of next year.
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Miguel left, shivering when he hit the street .
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When the idea hit the streets , we at Guitarist were unanimous in wanting to throw our weight behind the project.
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Laid-off workers are hitting the streets .
line
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Jed could sense a question running like a breeze through the rows of people who lined the streets: Who's he?
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Old men and women lined the dirt street and cheered as her wagon passed by.
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The funeral procession started peacefully in Brooklyn, with thousands following the coffin and lining the streets .
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Inside, food, game and beer booths line the plaza and streets .
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In the city of Rome it is believed that some 40,000 insulae lined the streets and squares.
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I looked down on the houses lining the steep streets of Saltville.
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Citizens lined the main streets and applauded as the funeral procession passed by.
live
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She lives in a street near Russell Square.
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Page has hit proverbial rock bottom and has become a walking skeleton living on the streets .
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I have found one must speak slowly to people who live in the back streets of London.
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This undoubtedly will be at the expense of the people living along that street .
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People who live on the streets lose self-esteem.
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Sheffield lives across the street on a block where five of the six houses are occupied by family members.
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He and I live in the same street .
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Frank Morales, a neighborhood activist who lives across the street from the park, said Thursday at the dedication.
park
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We parked in a pleasant street , lined with trees and filled with detached and semi-detached suburban villas.
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There were several pony carts parked along the street but only one motorized truck.
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It was parked a couple of streets away.
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Let my dad kidnap me, hue begged as he slowly passed a strange van parked down the street .
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Kelly parked in a side street and walked.
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A white waitress at a drive-in told the couple to park across the street , because they were black.
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In the evening we drove into Chamonix and parked in the main street .
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Don't go off to the sun and leave it parked in the street .
roam
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Since then, excited activists have been roaming the streets , banging drums and chanting.
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There was a lot of violence, gangs roaming the streets .
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Cowpat stoves were everywhere, using the droppings of the cattle that roamed the streets as a mainstream fuel supply.
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Industry, such as it was, almost stood still, and the jobless and underemployed roamed city streets .
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Huge rats roamed the streets slaying then devouring their victims.
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I bought one the first day I arrived and have been roaming the streets ever since looking for some one to play catch.
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It might have been the stories about businessmen roaming the streets with half a million pounds in carrier bags.
run
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He ran out into the street , his soaked shoes splashing water over his trousers, muddying his coat.
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He was staying with a guy he had run into on the street , the roommate of a former trick.
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In the city centre these vehicles would run on the streets .
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A shell exploded just in front of me, and just over a woman as she ran across the street .
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Until recent times cobbles ran down the main street .
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He ran across the side street , scrambled on to the pavement.
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When I finished up at Mrs James's, I ran down the street and watched the sky.
walk
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They can work and walk alone in the streets .
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C., can you walk down the street and bump into a row of newspaper boxes half a block long?
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That afternoon, between summer showers, we walked disconsolately through the streets .
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But to really see Vienna, you have to walk its intriguing streets , alleys and courtyards.
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They went home, walking the streets with their arms around each other.
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People hummed the lambada as they walked down the streets .
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Rachaela walked down the street and caught a bus at the corner.
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You can walk down the street , raise your family, earn a living.
wander
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However much she may enjoy such pursuits, there will be times when she would actually rather wander the streets unaccompanied.
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They seldom wander past the streets and neighborhoods they know.
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Male speaker I fear for Birmingham with this madman let loose, wandering around the streets frightening the children.
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Charles wandered the streets in a daze.
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Children as young as 2 or 3 wander the streets alone.
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In the meantime, he wandered the streets , wheeling an oxygen tank he needed to treat his emphysema, Ewing said.
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I'd wander down the high street , frittering away on whatever took my fancy.
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Chickens and roosters wander the streets like they own the place.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
back street/lane/road etc
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A far better alternative was to walk the back roads and country lanes.
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And this was how many such agents lived, in rooms in the back streets of cities.
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I have found one must speak slowly to people who live in the back streets of London.
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Iain and Tommy drank together on the back streets of Pinner.
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Now they left the main road for the quieter, dimmer back streets.
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People always honk at me for that so I try to take the back roads.
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That afternoon I drove nonstop over the back roads of Ames and Bern townships.
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The back lane, roughly on the line of the original through road, is exactly that.
be (living) on easy street
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By the time this Clinton-Dole thing is over, you and I could be living on Easy Street.
hit the shops/streets
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But after the officer leaves, Michael grabs his sleeping bag and hits the streets.
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Equipped with such information, I decided it was time to hit the streets.
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Laid-off workers are hitting the streets.
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Meanwhile, his book, Black Coffee Blues, is due to hit the shops in mid-December.
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She told me to hit the streets with the canvas bag and start ringing doorbells the instant school was out next day.
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The newspaper has had $ 29 million in losses since it hit the streets on Jan. 10, 1994.
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The service is currently in beta testing and should hit the streets in the first quarter of next year.
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When the idea hit the streets, we at Guitarist were unanimous in wanting to throw our weight behind the project.
sth is a two-way street
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But creative collaboration is a two-way street.
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But the link between diagnosis and treatment is a two-way street.
the high street
the man in the street
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But the man in the street will say: how can it get worse?
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For the man in the street, sueing for libel can be an expensive business.
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One of the men in the street ran to open the door, then another man pushed him.
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That's what the man in the street wants.
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The Alliance Party had a slightly Roman Catholic image with the man in the street.
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The noise of thunder rolls across the city, pressing down and leaving the man in the street angered and on edge.
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Then comes the whip, the sudden vicious reminder of the man in the street.
the streets are paved with gold
walk the streets
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A place where you can walk the streets, hear the bragging and feel the strut and the swagger.
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But police have assured residents there is no evidence to show they are at risk when walking the streets at night.
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Glasser talks of her as if, in walking out, she had gone on to walk the streets.
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He walked the streets, crawling from crib to crib.
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He thought by now he could walk the streets blindfolded and still find his way.
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I only have to walk the streets of Berlin to have it in my mind.
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Mr Sammler, back walking the streets, which now were dark blue, a bluish glow from the street lamps.
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They went home, walking the streets with their arms around each other.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Our street was just a row of brick terraced houses.
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Pablo loved wandering through the streets of Barcelona.
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She had lived in the same street in London all her life.
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There were stores on both sides of the street .
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They live on Clay Street .
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Victoria can't walk down the street without someone recognizing her.
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Wall Street is a famous financial center in New York.
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We need more police on the streets.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Across the street , on the steps of St Martin-in-the-Fields church, there was movement.
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Claudia, standing by the window, looking down at the street , knew the moment he stepped over the threshold.
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He's out there running the streets of Annapolis, just before dawn.
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He heaved his bulk round, but saw only the tightly wedged backs of the mob out in the street .
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He pointed to the side of the street .
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I imagine him marching-no, swanning-around the streets of his beloved Manchester as he talks to me.
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I went straight back to the street corner where I'd lost him and started the slow cruise.
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York, among many towns which have pedestrianised their centres, has paved many of its streets without adverse effect.