Example sentences of "been arrest [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The four named officers had been arrested at the same time as Beattie and had already appeared before ‘ Diplock ’ tribunals and been released .
2 All round his dingy housing-association flat in Stoke Newington , close to Amhurst Road , where he had been arrested at the beginning of the 1970s , were the signs of the new affluence .
3 When I got into work on the big day I found out he 'd been arrested at the weekend .
4 The investigation had gathered momentum in mid-April , following leads provided during his questioning by Mario Chiesa , who had been arrested at the end of February [ see p. 38824 ] .
5 Carrington was directed to a nearby farmhouse where ‘ a tall , dark German airman had been arrested at the sharp end of a pitchfork ’ to find only another crowd of excited neighbours and a labourer called Davie Maclean who was getting fed up with the whole affair .
6 Tim Roberts , prosecuting , said Floyd had been arrested at the Darlington bus station ten minutes after the attempted robbery and it was obvious to the police he had been drinking .
7 A States of Jersey police statement said Mark Newall , 26 , had been arrested at the force 's request .
8 Clarence , by some curious quirk of fate that again linked the Mowbrays with the royal family , had been arrested on the day following Anne 's wedding and subsequently judicially executed .
9 A few senior officials , including a former prime minister and the former head of the secret police , SAVAK , have been arrested on the Shahs orders , But these were little more than futile , almost feckless , gestures of appeasement ( and personal betrayal ) by the Shah .
10 A prominent Tasmanian media owner , Edmund Rouse , who had been arrested on the eve of the no confidence vote , was convicted on May 7 , 1990 , of trying to bribe a Labor politician to cross the floor and thus to prevent the ALP from forming a government .
11 Only one terrorist , Fawaz Yunis , has been arrested under the 1984 law and the FBI lured him into international waters to make the arrest .
12 Surely it would have been possible at least to give the number of people who had been arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act , and the number of people subsequently charged .
13 A MAN has been arrested over the murder of teenager Helen Gorrie .
14 Numerous cases of arbitrary detention , often without trial , were recorded in Israel and the Israeli-occupied territories where an estimated 25,000 Palestinians had been arrested since the start of the intifada , including 4,000 without charge or trial .
15 They were led by Capt. Pascal Tawes , former deputy commander of the Presidential Guard , who had been arrested following the firing of gunshots around the presidential palace on May 27 .
16 There is still an abyss or several to be crossed , but the bishop was applauded with vast intensity as he told how he had demanded the release of the 150 people reckoned to have been arrested during the street fighting , and had been told that complaints of police brutality would be investigated if the names of the victims were submitted in writing to the authorities .
17 The report also claimed that 3,650 people had been arrested during the curfew and that the Israeli authorities had distributed only 50,000 gas masks — to protect against possible Iraqi chemical attack — among a Palestinian population of 1,700,000 .
18 Draskovic , who had been arrested during the demonstration , had appeared before an investigating magistrate on April 22 .
19 On Aug. 12 , however , the chairman of the League for the Defence of Human Rights said that more than 300 people had died and over 8,000 had been arrested during the recent disturbances . )
20 More than 1200 women have been arrested during the Intifada for varying periods , with and without charges being brought .
21 NRA forces were reported to have committed atrocities against the civilian population in Soroti district in the east , where the government had been fighting the Uganda People 's Army ( UPA ) , led by Peter Otai ; in September it was reported that 30 NRA personnel had been arrested for the killing of 60 civilians in the area .
22 Murder hunt : A man in his 50s has been arrested for the murder of a wealthy woman in her late 80s found dead at her home in Mwrog Street , Ruthin , North Wales .
23 Khmara had been arrested inside the Supreme Soviet on Nov. 17 , 1990 , as a result of an incident during the October Revolution holiday on Nov. 7 when he and his co-defendants had been involved in a scuffle with an undercover KGB ( State Security ) officer in a pedestrian subway in Kiev .
24 A group of people have just been arrested by the railway Cheka for trying to travel without tickets , yet our peasant notes how the wife of a Roslavl' party member flourishes an authorization for a free pass typed out on a Tsarist form .
25 Many of the Brigades ' victims have then been arrested by the security forces .
26 Gustavo Adolfo Stroessner , the son of the exiled former president Alfredo Stroessner , was reported to have been arrested by the Brazilian police on Aug. 9 in response to an extradition request by the Paraguayan government .
27 The three had been arrested by the military on Aug. 17 charged with fly-posting photographs of Aristide .
28 A total of 1,200 African migrants had been arrested by the Civil Guard at Algeciras in the first eight months of 1992 .
29 He had been arrested by the Justice Police and his shop had been virtually destroyed by the security officers .
30 Eight foreign environmentalists have been arrested by the Malaysian authorities after staging anti-logging protests on the island of Sarawak .
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