How To Use Passer-by In A Sentence
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He was the priest who beholds all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a passer-by spit upon his idol.
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His motor-'bus was passing through a region unknown to him -- one of those regions where raw vegetables and meat, varied with crockery and old books, exuberate into booths and stalls along the pavement, and salesmen shout to the heedless passer-by prophetic warnings of opportunities eternally lost.
Essays in Rebellion
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Your happy passer-by all knows, my distressed there is no place hides.
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A passer-by recorded the incident on film.
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But his pet labrador was helped to safety by a passer-by and survived.
The Sun
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Once, at a sharp turn where a man's shoulder would unavoidably brush against a screen of leaves, the bushman displayed great caution as he spread the leaves aside and exposed the head of a sharp-pointed spear, so set that the casual passer-by would receive at the least a nasty scratch.
Chapter 24
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A passer-by saw the child fall into the River Medway in Maidstone, Kent, at about 2.30pm yesterday and jumped in to save him.
Boy dies after river fall
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A passer-by spotted an abandoned plastic bag and alerted police.
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He was in such a hurry to get out that he barged into a passer-by.
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A passer-by described what he saw moments after the car bomb had exploded.
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A passer-by captured the whole incident on film.
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She escaped with the help of a passer-by but suffered more than 30 injuries, including burns to her face, arm and knees.
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In more than half the cases of physical abuse, the attacks came from an unknown passer-by.
Times, Sunday Times
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In more than half the cases of physical abuse, the attacks came from an unknown passer-by.
Times, Sunday Times
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For more than an hour, I sat with an empty cup and not one single passer-by even glanced at me.
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When a passer-by told him that he was offering his service to a government servant, Vairappan abruptly stopped shaving the official's beard.
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This tiny storefront could be easily overlooked by a passer-by given the dozens of Middle Eastern restaurants and stores on that block.
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Mistress Stagg, meeting her at the stairfoot with the tidings (just gathered from the lips of a passer-by) of Mr. Haward's illness, thought that the girl took the news very quietly.
Audrey
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Finally they picked up a fourth man, a passer-by who had seen the drama and dived in to the canal to help, towing a lifebelt.
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You'll be telling me next that I just stepped ashore, grabbed the first passer-by I saw, hit him in the face with a four-by-two then dragged him up here inventing this tale as I went.
When Eight Bells Toll
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As the Scottish actor draws on his cigarette in the vain hope it will warm him up, a passer-by stops to gaze at him.
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Beneath it is written: "As I saw the passer-by stop and hand the little kid his broken helmet and pat him on the back I guess he didn't need it anymore, the child saw me approaching, held out his hand and said, 'Please, miss, now all we need is the scooter to go with it!'
Can We Humanize the Web?
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The gunmen opened fire, killing a policeman and a passer-by.
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It was to prevent passer-by to see the line on my T-shirt.
Global Voices in English » China: A turmoil triggered by T-shirt
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On the Place he was accosted by the blind man, who, having dragged himself as far as Yonville, in the hope of getting the antiphlogistic pomade, was asking every passer-by where the druggist lived.
Madame Bovary
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Tomlinson was not a demonstrator -- he was a passer-by on the way home.
Boing Boing
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Now the eight of us are sitting in the stair way at the front of the police station, passer-by can stop and watch and take picture of us.
Global Voices in English » China: Tweeting a detention experience
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Sometimes they would carry these passages on from one path to within an inch or two of another, and there lie in wait till some passer-by, unweeting of harm, was just opposite their lurking cave; when they would dash through the solid wall of snow with a hideous yell, almost endangering the wits of the maids, and causing
David Elginbrod
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The mog ended up in a cat rescue centre after a passer-by saved it from a violent group of yobs.
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/2/If a pack-mule threw off his burden upon a passer-by because he had been improperly overloaded, or a dog which might have been restrained escaped from his master and bit any one, the old noxal action, as it was called, gave way to an action under the new law to enforce
The Common Law
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An investigation has been launched after cast iron guttering fell from a building and struck a passer-by.
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Some ribald passer-by put a battered felt hat upon Vishnu's sacred curls, and there the poor image sat, an alien in an indifferent land, a sack across its shoulders, a "billycock" upon its head, and honoured at most with a passing stare.
Gulliver of Mars
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I sit at my window this morning where the world like a passer-by stops for a moment, nods to me and goes.
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Bailiff Gessler, the Austrian representative would place his hat on a pole in Altdorf so that every passer-by would pay their respects by greeting the hat.
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They are tough enough to withstand being walked on occasionally and will reward the passer-by with perfume released from the crushed foliage.
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After finally being seen by a passer-by at about 5am yesterday and airlifted to safety he was still nursing painful injuries inflicted all over his legs and buttocks by the thorns.
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A passer-by made a desperate attempt to locate the boys, followed by a park ranger and a police officer who was on the scene within about five minutes.
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A passer-by intervened and the star was hit in the face and kicked in the groin before bouncers from a club split up the fight.
The Sun
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I sit at my window this morning where the world like a passer-by stops for a moment, nods to me and goes.
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A passer-by who saved a man from being savaged by his own dog and an off-duty policeman who intervened in a nightclub brawl were today honoured for their bravery.
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I sit at my window this morning where the world like a passer-by stops for a moment, nods to me and goes.
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Dozens of passer-by's walked past me, carrying their briefcases and their bags of work.
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A passer-by called the emergency services .
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A passer-by has taken me for a busker and thrown me 50p.
Times, Sunday Times
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I sit at my window this morning where the world like a passer-by stops for a moment, nods to me and goes.
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The blast set the 29-year-old on fire and only the prompt action of a passer-by prevented potentially fatal injuries.
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Bean, 52, was attacked after a passer-by made lewd comments about 22-year-old model April Summers outside a London bar.
Game of Thrones' Sean Bean Stabbed
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A worried passer-by spotted the couple sheltering in a cove and phoned for help.
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The gunmen opened fire, killing a policeman and a passer-by.
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A passer-by told the driver to move his car so that it was not causing an obstruction.
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A passer-by found the doll, which resembled a three-month-old fetus, on a sidewalk in the town of Armilla, near Granada, on July 4 and called emergency center.
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Officers raced to a path between terraced houses after passer-by made the grim discovery.
The Sun
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I sit at my window this morning where the world like a passer-by stops for a moment, nods to me and goes.
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I sit at my window this morning where the world like a passer-by stops for a moment, nods to me and goes.
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But his pet labrador was helped to safety by a passer-by and survived.
The Sun
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In more than half the cases of physical abuse, the attacks came from an unknown passer-by.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead of getting a ride out, the hotelier asked if, when the passer-by got to Windhoek, he could have someone bring back the parts he needed to repair the vehicle.
Where Cutting Grass With Scissors Makes Sense
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I sit at my window this morning where the world like a passer-by stops for a moment, nods to me and goes.
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Everywhere were scrub cactus and yucca plants looming with sharp spines to catch the unwary passer-by and stab into the skin.
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The parents had thrown the child to the passer-by, who caught it as they struggled to escape from the thick smoke which had engulfed the upstairs of their Cook Street home.
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The attack came almost exactly a year after an armed man threatened to shoot a passer-by who intervened in another failed armed robbery at the store.
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The Conquhar was a swift, clear-running river coursing over its bed of gneiss, well tucked-in on either side by green hayfields, where the grasshopper for ever "burred," and the haymakers stopped with elbows on their rakes to watch the passer-by.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
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No passer-by would have guessed that the three partners were ensconced in the black mouth of the tunnel, ramparted by the dump heap, watching for developments they were fairly sure would start with darkness.
Rimrock Trail
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In more than half the cases of physical abuse, the attacks came from an unknown passer-by.
Times, Sunday Times
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In 1953, after a passer-by was fatally injured by a piece of loose cast iron, Amalgamated had the structure stripped and reclad.
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