Example sentences of "[noun] on [prep] the street " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a remarkable inversion of Soviet vocabulary , he accused radicals of pressing for power using the " neo-Bolshevik tactic " of taking the political struggle on to the streets . |
| 2 | I do n't forget how often you have threatened to throw Ben on to the streets ; knowing full well that if he went , I would go with him . |
| 3 | They imbibed of necessity the belief in order and stability and , inevitably and as was intended , projected the same values on to the street people . |
| 4 | Those who are outside the party machine , jettisoned in the interests of moderation , have taken the fight on to the streets to capture grassroots support . |
| 5 | But better still is the delightful Gothic cloister which opens on the southern side of the nave , an asylum all the more praiseworthy for opening on the far side on to the street , and with an admirable fig tree standing in one corner to remind you that , northern Gothic or no , you are in the south . |
| 6 | It was not right , it said , to criminalise ‘ the unrest , worries and questions which drove thousands of Dresdeners on to the streets ’ . |
| 7 | In the Labour movement it never made much impact , for it always remained an alien force , financed and directed from outside , but it achieved something in taking the battle on to the streets in order to break up the meetings of the left . |
| 8 | The government responded forcefully on Feb. 25 to prevent a second attempt by the movement to take its campaign on to the streets . |
| 9 | One of the waiters peered through the wall-sized window on to the street . |
| 10 | ‘ I know one jobber who spent his twentieth birthday in the slammer for throwing his VDU through a fifth-floor window on to the street . ’ |
| 11 | Ever since punk brought fetishwear on to the street , S&M imagery has been taken up by the mainstream . |
| 12 | Durham police are taking the war against solvent abuse on to the streets and into local shops . |
| 13 | People who suggest that to intern is to bring the community on to the streets cast doubt on the integrity of the vast majority in Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | If he had been born in Australia or Lithuania or even Manchester , Sheikh al Hassan could have ejected his minion on to the street in the sure knowledge that it would be put down to robust good humour . |
| 15 | After Thursday 's rampage by crowds which burned the Venezuelan Embassy , Col Muammar Gaddafi appealed for ‘ self-restraint ’ and ordered more troops on to the streets to protect foreign missions , Libyan radio said . |
| 16 | Attempting unsuccessfully to repeat his 1987 tactics , Ershad had declared a state of emergency on Nov. 27 , 1990 , ordering troops on to the streets of the capital , Dhaka , to restore order [ see p. 37856 ] . |
| 17 | The day of action on 22 September brought about 60,000 people on to the streets of London and , according to The Times , it was the ‘ biggest revolt for a decade ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ For people to suggest that to intern is to bring people on to the streets casts doubts on the integrity of the vast majority of people in Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | On April 10 the strike committee brought up to 100,000 people on to the streets of Minsk . |
| 20 | Comité de forces vives , brought tens of thousands of people on to the streets of the capital , Antananarivo , each day from June 10 to the end of the month to demonstrate for far-reaching political reforms . |
| 21 | Sadly , the own reaction , his own reaction then was to make a speech to threaten to put more people on to the streets . |
| 22 | ‘ If he hears us , we 'll both follow Beth on to the streets and that 's a fact . ’ |
| 23 | Cold winter maybe , but it had been a long summer that ended that afternoon , from Powell , through the May Events and , at the end of August , the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia , which had again pulled the demonstrators on to the streets , but on this occasion down to Notting Hill and Olympia , the homes of the Czech and Soviet embassies , and an ill-timed eastern bloc trade exhibition . |
| 24 | A city where the buses stopped at eleven thirty , the pubs ushered their surprised foreign tourists on to the streets at five to eleven , and a meal after that meant Indian or Chinese . |
| 25 | The policy of drafting reservists was put into abeyance when the conflict in Croatia eased , and the new call-up has brought hundreds of angry men on to the streets insisting they will not fight . |
| 26 | On 23 June rightist demonstrations took place in Seoul and in other parts of south Korea ; Hodge ordered American tanks on to the streets to disperse the crowds . |