Example sentences of "[be] arrested and " in BNC.

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1 Kill me if you like , but if you let me live , I 'll do what I can to save you when you 're arrested and brought to trial for piracy . ’
2 Imagine two criminals , partners in crime , who are arrested and placed in separate cells with no means of communication .
3 All media , apart from government-controlled radio and television , have been totally silenced , and Haïtians caught tuning in to Voice of America broadcasts are arrested and beaten .
4 Large numbers of the Communist Party members who have risen almost in complete isolation against overwhelming odds , large numbers of them are actually killed in the fighting , many more of them are arrested and executed and in this way , the destruction of the Communist Party , particularly in the major cities , is to a very large extent completed by their own mistakes .
5 Ironically , it was at this time that Ezra Pound , who had been arrested and imprisoned for treason , was examined by four prominent psychologists and judged to be insane .
6 Unexpectedly , after activists had been arrested and street violence abated , the ruling party stopped besieging itself .
7 he 's been arrested and jailed for fighting white racism .
8 They were described at the time as an attempt at ‘ counter-revolution ’ , and in subsequent years many thousands of Albanians have been arrested and punished .
9 There was a similar reaction after several bodies went missing from Britain 's biggest cemetery in Surrey in April 1988 , even after a man had been arrested and charged for decapitating a disinterred corpse .
10 SIX people have been arrested and nine million dollars of fake notes recovered in a police raid .
11 He , too , checked with the police and rang back to confirm that Derek had not been arrested and that he felt she must have made a mistake .
12 The British consulate in Australia said a man has been arrested and charged with Andrew 's murder .
13 Mr Stephen , MP for Shoreham , Kent , said : ‘ Our constituents are seriously concerned about offences which are being committed by people who have been arrested and then released on bail by magistrates . ’
14 AI has repeatedly expressed concern about the case to the Tunisian Government since October 1991 but the Tunisian authorities have continued to insist that Faisal Barakat had never been arrested and that he died in a road accident .
15 Where a person has been arrested and charged , the review officer is the custody officer .
16 Scotland Yard press bureau gave this information to a journalist ; he deduced who had been arrested and printed a libellous story .
17 Miss Keeler 's love life had provided a sensational scandal in that a ‘ coloured friend ’ , moved to desperate jealousy by her behaviour , had opened fire at the window of her home and been arrested and charged for that offence .
18 Both had been arrested and were charged with serious terrorist offences , of which I was sure they were totally innocent ; although I was equally sure that they had engaged in active political propaganda , which in some ways would have been no less objectionable to the South African government .
19 They found out from the crew that the ship had been boarded the night before a few miles out from Gdańsk by a Russian naval vessel and that a Polish passenger had been arrested and taken off .
20 He had been arrested and roughly handled in an interrogation recently .
21 And like sheep they had eventually been ridden down by soldiers as her husband had been ridden down at Peterloo , the crowd dispersed and then hunted over the open fields like running hares , so that of Luke 's companions one had crawled into a hedge with a leg that might have been mangled in a bear trap and had bled t death there ; two or three others had taken refuge in haystacks and barns ; two had been arrested and sentenced to hard labour .
22 Four committee members have been arrested and released on bail following a swoop by detectives on their homes .
23 More than 600,000 people have passed through the rough hands of the Serbian authorities since the Parliament was abolished , and have been arrested and interrogated .
24 I was told of one particular youngster in Stockton-on-Tees who has been arrested and charged no fewer than 17 times this year .
25 Soon after 1 p.m. , as sporadic gunfire continued to be heard in the capital , Gen. Sani Abacha , the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Chief of Army Staff , declared that the Chiefs of Staff had pledged their loyalty to the President , and that " most of the disloyal elements have been arrested and are already undergoing interrogation " .
26 According to Information Minister Jean-Claude Rahaga , 11 rebels had been arrested and were to face trial .
27 Li , who denied the charges and said that he would appeal against the conviction , had been arrested and first charged in January 1988 [ see pp. 35742 ; 36764 ] .
28 He had resigned from the Military Council in April 1989 and had subsequently been arrested and charged with illegal possession of arms and ammunition .
29 In November the human rights organization Amnesty International called on Kenya to investigate its human rights record , claiming that hundreds of government opponents had been arrested and some tortured ; several aid donors , including the United States and Denmark , withheld or froze aid disbursements , expressing concern about the government 's treatment of its opponents .
30 Gitobu Imanyara , a civil rights lawyer and editor of the Nairobi Law Monthly , who had been arrested and charged with sedition on March 5 over an article alleging tribal favouritism [ see pp. 38088-89 ] , was again refused bail by the High Court on May 9 .
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