Example sentences of "were arrested [conj] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relations between the UK and Spain had become strained following an incident on June 30 , 1989 , in which four Spanish customs officers were arrested and charged with illegal entry and possession of firearms after they had entered the territory in hot pursuit of three alleged Gibraltarian tobacco smugglers . |
| 2 | The trust , a charity which helps those who describe themselves as ‘ New Age Travellers ’ , plans to appeal against the convictions and average fines of £50 plus costs imposed on 65 of the 130 would-be visitors who were arrested and charged with public order offences . |
| 3 | Two young men were arrested and charged with public order offences . |
| 4 | Two young men called Murphy were arrested and charged with public order offences . |
| 5 | On Jan. 28 Eugene Terreblanche , leader of the AWB , and nine other senior members of the organization were arrested and charged with public violence arising from a riot on Aug. 9 , 1991 , outside a hall where President de Klerk was addressing a meeting [ see p. 38376 ] . |
| 6 | During Catherine 's brief marriage to Henry , Culpepper and another former lover , Richard Dereham , were arrested and tortured into admitting having lain with Catherine before she wed the King . |
| 7 | 1,453 were arrested and processed in mobile booking offices , mostly for petty offences like delinquent traffic tickets or curfew violations . |