Example sentences of "people took [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem with Seawright was that he openly voiced what many people took to be the true feelings of Democratic Unionists , often to the embarrassment of the DUP spokesmen who were presenting a more moderate position . |
| 2 | On Saturday , January 26 , 3,000 people took to the streets of London in the annual Bloody Sunday commemoration demonstration . |
| 3 | During the autumn of that year , more than five million people took to the streets of Europe in support of the cause of European disarmament . |
| 4 | The ‘ artificial circumstance ’ of the theatre and of ‘ live ’ variety allowed some middle-class observers a safe glimpse into that ‘ tumult and promiscuity ’ which Arnold Bennett found to be typical of American hotel lobbies and which most respectable people took to be the hallmarks of the new city . |
| 5 | Later , in a speech at Warsaw University , the Prince spoke with admiration of the Polish people 's struggle and talked to the veterans of the uprising in which people took to the streets against the Germans , expecting help which never came from the nearby Russian army . |
| 6 | The Col d'Aubisque is high , at 5,600 feet , and the views that you have from it are sumptuous , both back the way you have come , and now to the east as well , across to the prominent peak of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre , once thought to be the highest in the chain because it stands rather apart and closer to the plain , and before people took to actually measuring altitudes , the nearest peaks were mistaken for the tallest . |
| 7 | I arrived just after one of the more serious rounds , when thousands of people took to the streets to burn and loot . |
| 8 | He uttered odd bits of English and Polish — a word here , what people took to be an odd line of poetry , names . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , an estimated 10,000 people took to the streets of Baku on Jan. 4 to demonstrate solidarity with those attacking the border . |
| 10 | Although an indefinite curfew was reimposed in Srinagar after the assassination , thousands of people took to the streets as Farooq 's body was carried from the hospital to which it had been taken to his home . |
| 11 | Ershad 's resignation announcement was greeted with scenes of wild jubilation in Dhaka where hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in celebration . |
| 12 | In particular after the air raid on the Baghdad bunker , days of national mourning were declared in Algeria , Mauritania and Tunisia and young people took to the streets upon hearing the announcement of the raid . |
| 13 | In Kwangju itself , more than 100,000 people took to the streets where they fought running battles with riot police late into the night . |
| 14 | Just months after the P&O Golf Day , golf clubs were out in force again , as P&O people took to the green . |
| 15 | Hundreds of people took to the water over the weekend to recreate ancient and strange boat races . |
| 16 | The protesters , also angered by cheap imports from eastern Europe and South America , ransacked sheds owned by a merchant they said dealt in British fish and hundreds of people took to the streets of Concarneau and neighbouring ports to show their support . |
| 17 | Twenty thousand people took to the streets of the Lithuanian capital , Vilnius , to mourn a man who became a martyr for the Republic 's bid for independence from Moscow . |