Example sentences of "[verb] they [prep] the streets " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They wanted to see them off the streets . ’ |
| 2 | Would n't be very hard to find them on the streets would it ? |
| 3 | He says that that it 's a good way of introducing youngsters to trials riding , as well as keeping them off the streets . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Government can not pretend to be concerned with security at army barracks and then , without regard for the soldiers , put them on the streets of London as easy targets for the terrorists . ’ |
| 6 | The Government can not pretend to be concerned with security at army barracks and then , without regard for the soldiers , put them on the streets of London as easy targets for the terrorists . ’ |
| 7 | At least it keeps them from the dangers which await them on the streets . |
| 8 | Oh we used to play them in the streets or anywhere like that . |
| 9 | Is this the one where , see a topless girl wobble them in the streets |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | Keeps them off the streets does n't it ? |
| 12 | I see 'd them sell them in the streets lots of times but I ai n't never tasted them like . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ah look after your children , keep them off the streets blah , blah , blah |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Police spokesman Martin Wallwork said : ‘ In police stations civilians will do the duties of officers who man the front desk giving us the opportunity to redeploy them on the streets . ’ |
| 18 | The question should then be asked : How much did it cost to have them on the streets because they surely were not at school ? |
| 19 | Now a police truant squad is out to take them off the streets . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He saw about a dozen street ruffians trailing them through the streets . |