Example sentences of "people took [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 On Saturday , January 26 , 3,000 people took to the streets of London in the annual Bloody Sunday commemoration demonstration .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 I arrived just after one of the more serious rounds , when thousands of people took to the streets to burn and loot .
5 Meanwhile , an estimated 10,000 people took to the streets of Baku on Jan. 4 to demonstrate solidarity with those attacking the border .
6 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 .
7 Ershad 's resignation announcement was greeted with scenes of wild jubilation in Dhaka where hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in celebration .
8 In particular after the air raid on the Baghdad bunker , days of national mourning were declared in Algeria , Mauritania and Tunisia and young people took to the streets upon hearing the announcement of the raid .
9 In Kwangju itself , more than 100,000 people took to the streets where they fought running battles with riot police late into the night .
10 Just months after the P&O Golf Day , golf clubs were out in force again , as P&O people took to the green .
11 Hundreds of people took to the water over the weekend to recreate ancient and strange boat races .
12 The protesters , also angered by cheap imports from eastern Europe and South America , ransacked sheds owned by a merchant they said dealt in British fish and hundreds of people took to the streets of Concarneau and neighbouring ports to show their support .
13 Twenty thousand people took to the streets of the Lithuanian capital , Vilnius , to mourn a man who became a martyr for the Republic 's bid for independence from Moscow .
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