Example sentences of "was [verb] by [noun pl] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amphetamine powder was found in a car containing five youths including Wilson , the driver , who was stopped by police in Middlesbrough last May . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Similar work was undertaken by women in shoe-making . |
| 4 | In Nicaragua , the US embassy in Managua was surrounded by troops in retaliation for American troops ringing the Nicaraguan embassy in Panama City . |
| 5 | The service was organised by clergy in response to calls from local people who wanted help to cope with their grief . |
| 6 | A street kid who was attacked by police in Guatemala City , who later died from the injuries he received |
| 7 | The Jakarta meeting was preceded by talks in Bangkok ( Thailand ) on Feb. 21 between Hun Sen and Prince Sihanouk [ for their meeting at Paris conference on Cambodia in August 1989 see p. 36848 ] . |
| 8 | There had already been examples in the fifties , notably Delmer Daves 's Broken Arrow , Robert Aldrich 's Apache and Sam Fuller 's Run of the Arrow , but it began a new trend in which the Western was appropriated by directors in order to express their liberal views . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | From there he was said by officials in Mogadishu on Nov. 8 to have sent letters to a number of countries and relief organizations explaining Somalia 's needs for emergency aid and calling upon " the international community and the Moslem world to extend humanitarian aid " . |
| 11 | THE standard of the Queen 's Birthday Parade as a spectacle fit for a monarch was threatened by cuts in troops available for ceremonial duties , a Tory warned in the Commons yesterday . |
| 12 | In the 1950s and 1960s , oestrogen therapy was used by women in America so — the phrase went — they could be ‘ feminine forever ’ . |
| 13 | The original application from Anchor , which is building a similar complex in Gateshead , was refused by magistrates in December . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She was arrested by police in Cairo , Egypt . |
| 16 | The tradition of an imperial unity of the British Isles was supported by statements in charters of pre-Conquest kings , in which the kings called themselves with varying degrees of circumlocution ‘ emperors of this British world ’ . |
| 17 | The implication that ‘ easy money ’ was made available to some fundholders was reinforced by reports in January 1992 that some were expecting six figure savings from their hospital treatment budgets by the end of the financial year . |
| 18 | There , alongside Elsie Oakensen , an amiably ordinary grandmother who told how she was snatched by aliens in Northamptonshire in 1978 , a group of bone fide fruitcakes from the Aetherius Society ( who believe that Jesus and Buddha came to Earth in flying saucers from Venus ) , turned up and did their party turn . |
| 19 | It was destroyed by vandals in August 1980 . |
| 20 | Price inflation plagued the distribution of imported goods and was aggravated by bottlenecks in ports like Khorramshahr and beyond . |
| 21 | A Swiss representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) , Alexandre Ghelew , 27 , was released by guerrillas in Kabul on Aug. 18 after having been abducted on Aug. 6 . |
| 22 | Extracranial cardiovascular activity was suggested by increases in blood pressure of 12/10 mm Hg observed 10 min after subcutaneous sumatriptan and lasting for 30–60 min . |
| 23 | The pear-shaped ‘ image of the Holy Mother of God ’ , which was held by women in labour , is expected to be sold for around £1 500 on November 24 . |
| 24 | Trotsky was murdered by Stalinists in Mexico City in August 1940 . |
| 25 | When a young Catholic barman was murdered by loyalists in Malvern Street in 1966 , Paisley was quick to announce : |
| 26 | It was also suggested that this faction was backed by elements in Vietnam who feared a type of democratic " domino effect " if open elections were to take place in Cambodia . |