Example sentences of "[verb] arrest the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two policemen , near the coach line , saw the waving flag and decided to try to arrest the two men on the steps . |
| 2 | Libya has arrested the two men named by the Scottish Lord Advocate last November … and begun a judicial investigation of its own . |
| 3 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 4 | He had everything he needed to arrest the whole gang . |
| 5 | The government hoped to arrest the overall decline in domestic investment by " restructuring " industrial production away from the labour-intensive manufacture of goods such as toys and textiles towards more capital-intensive high technology products . |
| 6 | We 've arrested the guilty parties . ’ |
| 7 | it was n't a move calculated to arrest the awful trend but , most people agree , it was a step in the right direction . |