Example sentences of "[verb] they off the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They wanted to see them off the streets . ’ |
| 2 | He says that that it 's a good way of introducing youngsters to trials riding , as well as keeping them off the streets . |
| 3 | I mean last week the choppers werny even gettin in to pick them off the Rigs what with the gales and that so basically I 've just got to expect him when I see him . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Keeps them off the streets does n't it ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ah look after your children , keep them off the streets blah , blah , blah |
| 8 | ‘ Keep them off the boats ! ’ cried the doctor . |
| 9 | He says charity shops should be allowed to sell second hand toys as they 've always done and the legislation which took them off the shelves was wrongly framed and should be scrapped . |
| 10 | Well maybe they 've not been so they give them so long and then they cross them off the books do n't they ? |
| 11 | She 'd pull them off the stalks . |
| 12 | Now a police truant squad is out to take them off the streets . |