Example sentences of "on to the streets of " in BNC.

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1 Millions poured on to the streets of London on 29 July 1981 to be able to say they were there on the day , to tell their children and grandchildren what it was like .
2 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 ’ .
3 Just a few hours earlier British troops had been sent on to the streets of Northern Ireland .
4 JFK : flown down from Washington and flung together by the doctors ' knives and the sniper 's bullets and introduced on to the streets of Dallas and a hero 's welcome .
5 Is he not ashamed that so many children have been thrown on to the streets of Scotland while he has been Prime Minister ?
6 The dismissals were announced the day after Girija Prasad Koirala , the general secretary of the Nepali Congress Party , had delivered a message to the King warning him that unless substantial powers were quickly turned over to the new government , crowds would be called back on to the streets of Kathmandu .
7 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 ] .
8 Ignoring a ban which the Serbian government had imposed on March 7 , some 100,000 people poured on to the streets of Belgrade to demand the resignations not only of the Milosevic administration but also of the senior officials of the Belgrade television network , tightly controlled by the SPS .
9 On April 10 the strike committee brought up to 100,000 people on to the streets of Minsk .
10 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 .
11 On the morning of Aug. 19 , tanks were sent on to the streets of Moscow and other major cities as it was announced that President Mikhail Gorbachev had effectively been deposed .
12 On July 14 Ghozali gave evidence to the court about the events of June 1991 , when the army had been called on to the streets of Algiers to combat FIS supporters [ see p. 38312 ] .
13 She took the message out on to the streets of Stockton yesterday .
14 Home Secretary David Waddington has been speaking of his sense of outrage at Saturday 's Trafalgar Square riots saying it brought some of the most ferocious violence ever seen on to the streets of London .
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