Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv prt] by the police " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police claimed that they were forced to open fire when the crowd attacked them , whereas the ANC said that several of its supporters , grouped to defend themselves from a pro-Inkatha attack , had been shot down by the police . |
| 2 | Am I going to some strange hospital with him to see his dad , or am I going to wander around Bristol all day waiting to be picked up by the police or my poor darling anxious parents ? |
| 3 | Even so , such crowds gathered that in parts of Lower Bavaria and the upper Palatinate halls reserved for the ceremonies were overfilled and had to be closed off by the police . |
| 4 | The League had already declared that it would boycott the investiture and , when he stood up to speak , a hundred or so extremists began shouting and jeering , and dozens had to be dragged off by the police before he could be heard . |
| 5 | The Spanish laws against drug use in those days were exceptionally severe , and I was terrified in case you should be found out by the police or the drug squad . |
| 6 | When , at the end of July and the beginning of August 1943 , four RAF raids practically wiped out the centre of Hamburg — Germany 's second city — in fire-storms , killing some 40,000 people , rumours spread that unrest had had to be put down by the police and SA or Wehrmacht , and that there was a ‘ November mood ’ — an allusion to the revolutionary mood of November 1918 — in the Reich which would rise up against the unbearable air raids . |
| 7 | This place will soon be taken over by the police and I 'll handle them . ’ |
| 8 | Often these were the starting points of big demonstrations which were broken up by the police . |
| 9 | It was designed as a more effective replacement for the Police Complaints Board ( PCB ) which the public appeared to have lost faith in due to the fact that few complaints were ever substantiated , and that all investigations were carried out by the police themselves . |
| 10 | An investigation is being carried out by the Police Complaints Authority . |
| 11 | An investigation into the death is being carried out by the Police Complaints Commission . |
| 12 | These things happen , he said as we were driving along , he 'd done something similar only a few weeks earlier , and he was used to being woken up by the police at 2 o'clock in the morning to rescue deer on the estate . |
| 13 | The anti-Hoxha demonstrations were put down by the police and troops with increasing force , and on Feb. 23 it was officially reported that two demonstrators and a policeman had been shot dead when a crowd reportedly tried to storm the Tirana military academy ( the opposition claimed up to 30 dead , and attributed some of the shooting to clashes between rival pro- and anti-reform factions within the army ) . |
| 14 | About fifty people attempted to gain entrance , but were held back by the police . |
| 15 | Part of the top floor had been sectioned off by the police and now housed those involved in the kidnapping . |
| 16 | Investigation in these areas is carried out by the police . |
| 17 | Be picked up by the police ? |
| 18 | The meeting on Jan. 8 , 1990 , was attended by 10,000-15,000 people and was broken up by the police , one person being arrested . |
| 19 | He refrained from taking any alcohol or drugs , but when he returned to Hollywood to commence filming , he began drinking again and was picked up by the police for drunken driving . |
| 20 | The three men on board admitted to the smuggling attempt and a fourth man was picked up by the police as the waited in a parked car at the landing place . |
| 21 | Neighbour Brian Dean , a 55-year-old chauffeur , said : ‘ I was woken up by the police cars lining up in the middle of the street . |
| 22 | This was bad luck on Helga , who got drunk with an American soldier and was not allowed to forget it , and on Hildegard , who was taken in by the police when she was seen talking to an ex-convict , but worked in favour of Martin , who made quite a business out of playing cards for money but who was judged ‘ on the whole to be doing no worse than any other boy of his age in his particular Position ’ . |