Sentence examples for English streets from inspiring English sources

Its characters walked on real English streets and spoke in real English accents, so — despite all of the cartoonish exaggerations — its atmosphere felt strangely real.

MPs pledged to block any moves by the government to introduce them on to English streets in the event of a repeat of the August riots.

By now, tens of thousands of people were out on English streets to riot and loot – most of them in London.

The number of licensed taxi and private vehicles on English streets has reached a record high of 242,200, up 9.3% since 2013.

The number of people sleeping on English streets dropped from 1,850 in 1998 to 464 in 2009, according to the snapshot body counts preferred by the Department for Communities and Local Government.

Only George Shaw, whose work – painstakingly rendered in Humbrol oils (more usually employed in painting model aircraft in suburban bedrooms) – and who himself was brought up on a Coventry estate – explores similar, subtly unsensational images of English streets as a kind of shadowy collective memory.

And the English street signs have not been taken down.

Finishing second in the Six Nations, behind Wales, will not prompt too many English street parties.

Well, not if there are two or more of you teenagers hanging around an English street corner.

The English street poster tradition was very wordy, he recalls, so Hapshash wanted maximum visual impact with little text.

They settled in Jamaica Estates, a secluded suburb in Queens with Tudor revival houses and English street names such as Avon, Chelsea, Croydon, Henley, Kent and Somerset.