Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] police " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Gardner ten years later , two robbers disguised as police overpowered guards , handcuffed them , bound them with tape , and cut canvases from frames before escaping with thirteen works . |
| 2 | It was reported that Uzbeks had demonstrated on Feb. 20 in Tashkent to demand the immediate eviction of Meskhetians , prompting the authorities to begin evacuating Meskhetian residents from the city for their own protection , and that on the following day Uzbek demonstrators had broken through police cordons protecting several Meskhetian-run collective farms outside Tashkent and had set fire to around 50 Meskhetian homes . |
| 3 | A five-day national strike had been launched on Nov. 5 , with clashes reported between police and strikers in Maradi , the country 's economic capital . |
| 4 | DEMI Moore is said to be devastated after police snatched l3l X-rated nude photos of her in a raid on a porn magazine . |
| 5 | His football club , Olympique Marseille , has come under police scrutiny . |
| 6 | A typical example of such a run originated with police information that a motor yacht named Glisseuse was picking up Asians from Nieuport in Belgium and running them into the Thames Estuary . |
| 7 | He was taken to the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital , but then discharged into police custody . |
| 8 | This restraint expected in police hair was clearly illustrated in a large poster exhibited in the Northumbria police training department in the early 1980s , which ordered : ‘ male hair will be clear of the collar … [ and ] sideburns will not extend below the centre of the ear … ’ . |
| 9 | It dwelt on the problems arising when Irish suspects , caught in police trawls , turned out to be only Republican sympathisers rather than terrorists . |
| 10 | The Conservative government has been sympathetic to these concerns and has launched a fierce rhetorical offensive against social liberalism , initiating or supporting measures designed to police the moral boundaries . |
| 11 | In this context , we shall assess how the Act has added to police power and what effect it has had when it has been used in tandem with the pre-existing law . |
| 12 | Confession evidence — unreliable — PACE s.78 not confined to police misconduct — construe widely |
| 13 | The 21-stone club chairman , reported to police by one of the photographers he assaulted on Monday , was on the rampage once more , threatening to give free transfers to the entire squad whom he blames for the £50,000 Football League fine . |
| 14 | He said the motorcycle was new , and left near the crowded Dadar railway station in central Bombay where it was reported to police by a doctor . |
| 15 | Their loss was not reported to police or the royal household — and work carried on as if nothing had happened . |
| 16 | Rape counsellors believe only ten per cent of rapes are reported to Police … |
| 17 | It was reported to police yesterday morning . |
| 18 | Police in north Oxfordshire believe the same thieves may have been behind two separate raids within a few miles of each other at Steeple Aston ; both raids were part of a spate of break-ins reported to police in the Fox F M area . |
| 19 | A further 300 have taken refuge with the West German embassy in Warsaw and , although the East German-Czechoslovak border is virtually sealed off and the West German embassy in Prague is surrounded by police who turn would-be refugees away , 30 more have managed to get inside the building . |
| 20 | ‘ Several thousand people , mostly pupils and students , found themselves surrounded by police and tanks , ’ the agency added . |
| 21 | He is surrounded by police , reporters and photographers who move with him like bees in a swarm . |
| 22 | She was surrounded by police and social workers . |
| 23 | He was quickly surrounded by police and taken to a neighbour 's house where they broke the tragic news that his four children — Sharon , aged five , and her brothers , Francis , four , Martin three , and Stefan , one — were dead . |
| 24 | The house was surrounded by police and after Rennie had freed Marita , police went in and arrested him . |
| 25 | A street kid who was attacked by police in Guatemala City , who later died from the injuries he received |
| 26 | In 1898 the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party was founded , only to be shattered by police arrests . |
| 27 | It was promptly shattered by police arrests , and following the economic downturn of 1899 there was a brief fall-off in strike action and contact between intelligenty and workers declined . |
| 28 | YOUNG footballers are being invited to compete in a five-a-side tournament organised by police at Warrington . |
| 29 | YOUNG footballers are invited to compete in a five-a-side tournament organised by police at Warrington . |
| 30 | The Clause will not apply to schemes covering categories of individual owners in common employment e.g. vehicles owned by Police Officers . |