Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] police [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he was to get £30,000 to £40,000 for his role , and added : ‘ I went down the A82 via Fort William before I was stopped by police at Doune . ’ |
| 2 | Amphetamine powder was found in a car containing five youths including Wilson , the driver , who was stopped by police in Middlesbrough last May . |
| 3 | Kevin John Porter , 28 , was stopped by police in Commercial Street , Darlington , last summer after drinking with a friend who asked him to fill up the car . |
| 4 | A recent case , where a woman was murdered for her dowry , was registered by police as suicide . |
| 5 | A street kid who was attacked by police in Guatemala City , who later died from the injuries he received |
| 6 | Cardwell was interviewed by police on February 20 and released on bail . |
| 7 | But on March 3 he was seen by police in Scarborough shouting and swearing , drinking from a bottle and offering to give passers-by a drink , Melvyn Kelly prosecuting , told the court . |
| 8 | The following day Gary Burn was arrested by police on suspicion of murder . |
| 9 | MARK NEWALL , the brother of Roderick Newall , who is accused of murdering his parents in Jersey more than five years ago , was arrested by police in Paris yesterday . |
| 10 | She was arrested by police in Cairo , Egypt . |
| 11 | It was the biggest demonstration since the lifting of martial law in 1988 , and was estimated by police to number 10,000 . |
| 12 | The early days of the strike — which Radio France International on May 25 said had been " virtually ignored " by the population — saw large FIS demonstrations ; on May 29 and 30 tear gas was fired by police at FIS demonstrators in various areas of Algiers . |