Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at the police " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stones were thrown at the police and a number of shop windows were broken . |
| 2 | After a couple of hours , during which some sticks and other items were thrown at the police and insults were shouted , a mounted police line was drawn up behind the police cordon and a row of police vans . |
| 3 | Violence flared and on at least one occasion stones were thrown at the police . |
| 4 | Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson said : ‘ No abusive remarks were directed at the police officer . |
| 5 | Guns were fired at the police , causing injuries to several officers and reporters , and the forces were issued with CS gas and plastic bullets , although these were not used . |
| 6 | Was chucked at the police station . |
| 7 | While he was detained at the police station a number of police-officers used a key taken from the arrested man to enter his mother 's home . |
| 8 | The police were called , my client was arrested and was detained at the police station from about midnight on the Saturday until eventually he appeared before the court about four o'clock on the Monday afternoon . |
| 9 | A barricade was built in Fahan Street and set on fire and a continuous fusillade of stones was thrown at the police sheltering behind Butcher Gate . |
| 10 | He said that there was definitely a mortuary in Bala and had been told that the key was kept at the police station . |
| 11 | The crime prevention and personal safety quiz was held at the police station and judged by senior officers , the Mayor of Darlington and the town 's MP , Michael Fallon . |