Example sentences of "them [prep] the street " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw about a dozen street ruffians trailing them through the streets . |
| 2 | A body builder who tackled two armed raiders single-handed , after chasing them through the streets in his car has been hailed as a hero . |
| 3 | Unlike the back-to-backs and the tenements built for the poor in the nineteenth century , which treated the poor like prostitutes — they 'll always be with us , but at least keep them off the streets — their function was to take the streetwise communities off the streets and clean up the gregarious clamour of the slum-dwellers . |
| 4 | ‘ They wanted to see them off the streets . ’ |
| 5 | He says that that it 's a good way of introducing youngsters to trials riding , as well as keeping them off the streets . |
| 6 | Now a police truant squad is out to take them off the streets . |
| 7 | ‘ They have to be tougher than the average kid , I do n't like losers , but once they 're into boxing it takes them off the streets , away from the drugs and alcohol , ’ said Lol , 57 . |
| 8 | ah look after your children , keep them off the streets blah , blah , blah |
| 9 | Keeps them off the streets does n't it ? |
| 10 | because education changes their social standing , takes them off the street and then they 're not at the level that they were , young adults , they 're children again |
| 11 | Through the Princes ' Trust in the month we actually give grants to something like twenty people , just to get them off the street , because there was nowhere else they could turn to . |
| 12 | The Irishmen , if they had any cattle left , used to drive them into the street ; and they 'd carry on bargaining with the farmers under a street lamp ; and when the police came along they 'd move further on to another lamp until they 'd sold all their cattle . ’ |
| 13 | I accompanied them into the street where they rejoined the boy who 'd been standing look-out . |
| 14 | In a bid to regain his machine the unemployed roofer climbed to the top of a building , ripped off tiles and threw them into the street , it was alleged . |
| 15 | When Swayne stopped speaking small sounds reached them from the street : a woman 's heels tapping on the paving stones , a snatch of conversation from the people opposite … |
| 16 | In America we 'd be holding out banners for them in the streets of their home town . |
| 17 | I see 'd them sell them in the streets lots of times but I ai n't never tasted them like . ’ |
| 18 | Oh we used to play them in the streets or anywhere like that . |
| 19 | In Darcy 's Utopia there are bound to be children , but their parents will be carefully selected , and being in short supply they will grow up in a world which loves and admires children and finds them interesting , and does n't herd them together in schools to get them out of the way , dunk them in front of obscene videos to keep them quiet , and slap them about and threaten them in the streets , which is what happens in this society of ours which you seem to find both perfectly ordinary , and , worse , inevitable . |
| 20 | We get people on the programme singing and dancing so badly it 's painful , but they come back the next week and tell us that everyone 's stopping them in the streets to congratulate them , not slag them off . ’ |
| 21 | Leslie was aware that most people " can not Read at all " , but said he had seen them in the streets " Gather together about one that can Read " and listen to a newspaper being read aloud . |
| 22 | Is this the one where , see a topless girl wobble them in the streets |
| 23 | She described how she walked around for months ‘ with a pain , almost a physical pain , in my heart ’ ; of how she avoided friends and pulled her hat over her face if she met them in the street ; of how , at last , she knew she must express her thousand emotions about her little grandchild in the way she knew best , in clay . |
| 24 | Breeze flew back for it , and joined them in the street . |
| 25 | You would recognise them if you saw them in the street , there 's no doubt about that , but they 're not academic studies , they 're caricatured to a point . |
| 26 | You would recognise them if you saw them in the street , there 's no doubt about that , but they 're not academic studies , they 're caricatured to a point . |
| 27 | ‘ Soliciting … she was known to have men at her house and was seen to stop them in the street . |
| 28 | She stood five feet six tall in her high-heeled shoes , her long hair was dark , and she was the kind of thirty-five-year-old woman men turned to look at when she passed them in the street . |
| 29 | Had the two friends discussed her in the way men probably did when they looked at a young woman who passed them in the street ? |
| 30 | She 's just picked up the children from a rendezvous with their father who had an afternoon 's access , and he 'd shouted at her and them in the street and threatened to take the children away . |