Example sentences of "[vb pp] by police " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Several thousand people , mostly pupils and students , found themselves surrounded by police and tanks , ’ the agency added . |
| 3 | He is surrounded by police , reporters and photographers who move with him like bees in a swarm . |
| 4 | She was surrounded by police and social workers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The house was surrounded by police and after Rennie had freed Marita , police went in and arrested him . |
| 7 | A street kid who was attacked by police in Guatemala City , who later died from the injuries he received |
| 8 | In 1898 the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party was founded , only to be shattered by police arrests . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | YOUNG footballers are being invited to compete in a five-a-side tournament organised by police at Warrington . |
| 11 | YOUNG footballers are invited to compete in a five-a-side tournament organised by police at Warrington . |
| 12 | The Clause will not apply to schemes covering categories of individual owners in common employment e.g. vehicles owned by Police Officers . |
| 13 | A riot in Copenhagen on the night of the referendum left 11 protestors wounded by police gunshots and two dozen policemen in hospital . |
| 14 | Last night he was waiting to be quizzed by police . |
| 15 | A man was being quizzed by police at Holloway station . |
| 16 | A FINANCIAL expert who jetted off to South Africa with alleged debts of £4 million was being quizzed by police last night . |
| 17 | Two men were being quizzed by police last night . |
| 18 | But she later told her parents the boys had raped her and they were quizzed by police for several days before the girl confessed to lying . |
| 19 | Five nightclub customers were being quizzed by police yesterday after a man was stabbed to death in the early morning . |
| 20 | A MAN was being quizzed by police yesterday after a schoolgirl was kidnapped at gunpoint and subjected to a terrifying three-hour sex ordeal . |
| 21 | A CLEVELAND aid worker has been quizzed by police about misuse of the Red Cross symbol . |
| 22 | Convoy Aid Romania was threatened with legal action for illegal use of the symbol and coordinator Rod Jones was quizzed by police . |
| 23 | His conviction rested on two confessions Gilmour alleges were respectively beaten out of him and concocted by police officers . |
| 24 | After being repelled by police , the crowd vented its anger by damaging property and overturning police cars . |
| 25 | The move had been preceded by police visits to the printers of It , Oz , and Rolling Stone . |
| 26 | They had three sent off , the assistant manager Terry McDermott was apparently cautioned , there was a bomb scare and a pitch invasion was averted by police . |
| 27 | Seen as a subversive organization by the government , the NUWCM was quickly penetrated by police informers and its activities were harried at local and national level . |
| 28 | ‘ The children are caught by police , imprisoned with common criminals , tortured and made to sign confessions . |
| 29 | Harris , who was driving a Peugeot 309 , was caught by police using a radar gun . |
| 30 | He fled but was later caught by police . |