Example sentences of "[adv prt] by [art] police " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He also witnessed the gunning down by the police of a cornered Sinn Feiner . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Like being murdered or taken in by the police , ’ said Rose , getting out of the car . |
| 7 | This place will soon be taken over by the police and I 'll handle them . ’ |
| 8 | The roads are bumpy and uncertain and when they do get on a half decent stretch , they get pulled over by the police : they 're not supposed to be on it . |
| 9 | It is the first time crews outside London have decided to cut themselves off from controllers and to accept only those calls put through by the police , the fire service , GPs , hospitals and the public . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Part of the top floor had been sectioned off by the police and now housed those involved in the kidnapping . |
| 13 | In group F were to be found young children ( average age about 10 ) who sat , when they were not moved off by the police , on the wall in the front of the terrace , overlooking the dry moat . |
| 14 | That was before the running street-battles of the weekend , when a demonstration around the church was broken up by a police riot which lasted five hours . |
| 15 | Often these were the starting points of big demonstrations which were broken up by the police . |
| 16 | There 's no point in demonstrating if you do n't get any national press , TV or radio … or nobody listens to you or you get beaten up by the Police … ’ |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , the crop-haired young man picked up by the police turned out to be a journalist trying to infiltrate a skinhead gang for a story . |
| 20 | Be picked up by the police ? |
| 21 | Again from Criminal Statistics ( 1988 ) we see that there has been an increase in the number of offences cleared up by the police , between 1979 and 1988 of 27.3 per cent ( from 980,700 to 1,248,900 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Demonstrations were also broken up by the police in Annaba , Constantine , Bordj Bou-Arreridj and Chlef . |
| 26 | He was n't the only one picked up by the police . |
| 27 | Thai campaigners have also criticized poor standards in the centres set up by the police to hold animals seized during raids . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It is specifically denied that during the briefing Mr Clayton stated that in relation some form of abuse' ’ which has been found during examinations carried out by a police surgeon . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |