Sentence examples for passerby into from inspiring English sources

Reading Pritchett's stories, one has an impression of sitting next to him on a park bench, or at a corner café, and listening to him turn every passerby into a story.

Murray trudges downstairs to Bemelmans, where he attempts the first lines of "Jingle Bells," then flees the stage, followed by a brief return, in which he ropes Chris Rock, who appears as an unlucky passerby, into a warbling, turtle-necked duet of "Do You Hear What I Hear?" Partway through, the room goes dark and Rock is heard escaping.

The sculpture, which lies next to a glass window in plain view, shocked passerby into a panic.

You gotta see this," a passerby said into his StarTac, stopping to gawk.

Well, they bring home that strange combination of serendipity and revelation that so often characterises our encounters with music: those BBC advertisements for the proms in which a passerby steps into an invisible circle of sound and is suddenly transfixed and transported tap into a particular preoccupation with "the secret power of music" which is both profoundly ideological and all too real.

He's already had on-the-spot tips from Callie, the J Parker waitress from Indiana, and talked a passerby called Mike into giving him an impromptu tour of Lincoln Park.

A passerby put him into a taxi back to his hotel, he said.

What I heard was an inmate filed a lawsuit against a CO who kicked in his bathroom stall door lookin' for smoke, so the result was all the stall doors were cut in half to give a passerby easy viewing into the stall.

"Oh, look," a passerby said, pointing down into the churning water on the last full day of our vacation.

I agree, it doesn't seem that way when you witness (and surely "witness" is the correct term) an insane man with blood on his hands, ranting into a passerby's phone camera, having just attempted to behead Lee Rigby, an off-duty soldier, in a suburban London street.

He reportedly engaged in a "standoff" with law enforcement before making a run for it, busting through a police blockade and charging into a passerby.