Example sentences of "took to the streets " in BNC.
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| 1 | Youths took to the streets in protest . |
| 2 | More recently , junior hospital doctors took to the streets over their appallingly long hours , up to ninety in a single week . |
| 3 | The young urban loyalists took to the streets : |
| 4 | In Arab East Jerusalem and other parts of the Israeli-occupied territories , Palestinians took to the streets in celebration . |
| 5 | On Saturday , January 26 , 3,000 people took to the streets of London in the annual Bloody Sunday commemoration demonstration . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the United Kingdom the Roman Catholic and Republican minority of Northern Ireland took to the streets in protest against the injustices meted out to their kind by the Provincial Government and condoned in Whitehall ( see Cameron Report 1969 Cmd 532 ) . |
| 8 | Interestingly enough , broadside probably derives from the naval tactic of firing all the guns from one side of a ship of war at once , without giving the recipient the necessity of awaiting installments Such sheets are of historic importance , since they date back to the sixteenth century , when popular poems and ballads were issued in this form ; and royal and official proclamations took to the streets in this guise almost from the first days of printing . |
| 9 | The strange one was booked to fly to Johannesburg for concerts but when the whole country , practically , took to the streets , he changed his mind . |
| 10 | Protesters in Germany took to the streets of Solingen after an arson attack by neo-Nazis that killed five Turks . |
| 11 | Several hundred Tibetans , already worried by inflation , took to the streets to protest at the new measures . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When the rioters took to the streets , when the fires in Bristol lit the night sky , when Attwood 's meeting at Birmingham resolved to pay no taxes , when , in short , revolution threatened , it was not because the Whig Government wanted reform as proposed in their Bill . |
| 14 | Like the pots and pan marches in Chile , when right-wing women took to the streets to protest against the Allende Popular Unity government , the ultra-right.in El Salvador has called upon women in times of political emergency . |
| 15 | Some , rather than beg , took to the streets in New York to sell apples . |
| 16 | I arrived just after one of the more serious rounds , when thousands of people took to the streets to burn and loot . |
| 17 | Tens of thousands took to the streets in Baku alone , up to sixty people ( mostly Armenians ) lost their lives in pogroms , and there were further fatalities when a state of emergency was declared by the USSR Presidium and troops were used to restore order on 19–20 January . |
| 18 | Mobs took to the streets shouting ‘ Give us back our 11 days ! ’ . |
| 19 | An ayatollah had been released from three years " detention and mobs took to the streets to celebrate . |
| 20 | Armed civilians , Islamic militiamen and pro-Khomeini troops took to the streets to take control of other military installations . |
| 21 | But all that was put to one side when the protests started and we took to the streets . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , an estimated 10,000 people took to the streets of Baku on Jan. 4 to demonstrate solidarity with those attacking the border . |
| 23 | Up to 60,000 demonstrators loyal to the NSF took to the streets of Bucharest on Jan. 29 . |
| 24 | As news of the shooting spread , large numbers of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip took to the streets and soon some of the most intense rioting of the whole intifada was under way . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Stirred up by this incident , nationalists took to the streets in several parts of Yerevan , setting up road blocks . |
| 27 | During this time people briefly took to the streets in Lusaka and in the provincial towns of Mufulira , Ndola and Kitwe , before Luchembe was arrested by troops loyal to the government . |
| 28 | After reports that police reservists in the predominantly Serb town of Benkovac had been disarmed , by order of their Croat superiors , Serbs took to the streets there and in nearby towns . |
| 29 | Israeli Arabs also took to the streets , and riots were reported in Nazareth , Israel 's largest Arab town . |
| 30 | Following the killings Israeli mobs took to the streets of Jerusalem where they attacked Arab workers and cars . |