Example sentences of "he was arrested [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | He was arrested after his mother became suspicious of a package sent to his address and contacted the police . |
| 2 | Mrs McGrath said he was arrested after a local newspaper set up a hotline appealing for information . |
| 3 | He was arrested when the plot of Sir Henry Dudley [ q.v. ] was uncovered in 1556 , but was again released without indictment . |
| 4 | He was arrested and jailed for two years in 1977 . |
| 5 | He was arrested and booked into the city jail for driving while intoxicated . |
| 6 | Betrayed by one of the inner circle of disciples , Judas , he was arrested and , at passover-time probably in the year 30 of our era , executed by crucifixion — a method of killing in which the preceding torture is prolonged as long as possible , death being certain . |
| 7 | ’ Michael Collier 's mistake was to have survived into prosaic Victorian times , whereupon he was arrested and sent to Australia . |
| 8 | He was arrested and his files were confiscated soon after Fujimori 's power play . |
| 9 | He was arrested and tortured in German and Italian prisons , and once was confined in a bottle-dungeon in which he could neither sit nor stand up . |
| 10 | He was arrested and , although there was no blockage of the highway , disorder , or violence , he was later charged with obstruction of a police officer in the execution of his duty . |
| 11 | He was arrested and after a trial before the Tribunal , all of whom he knew well , he was sentenced to a year in Peterhead Gaol . |
| 12 | Twice in Morocco he was arrested and interrogated as a spy by the French Foreign Legion who refused to believe that anyone would spend their holidays cycling across the desert in temperatures of 48 ’ C. |
| 13 | He was arrested and taken to Alton police station . |
| 14 | He was arrested and spent twelve hours in Clark County jail . |
| 15 | He told the officer he would assault him to make sure he was arrested and taken to the cells . |
| 16 | He was arrested and yesterday he was being held in custody in London while detectives questioned him . |
| 17 | Rhee joined the Independence Club soon after his conversion to Christianity ; he was arrested and spent seven years in prison . |
| 18 | He rode off towards Dunbar and set sail for his dukedom of Orkney and then for Norway , where he was arrested and confined in due course in the castle of Dragsholm in Denmark . |
| 19 | He was arrested and was executed — when was it ? — about September that year . ’ |
| 20 | He was arrested and kept in the town hall in Fontanellato . |
| 21 | He was arrested and detained in Newgate prison in Dublin from February to June 1797 . |
| 22 | He held this position until May 1290 , when he was arrested and sent to the Tower and his lands seized , probably as the result of an allegation made against him in the course of the ‘ State Trials ’ . |
| 23 | He was arrested and tried for the first time in April 1916 . |
| 24 | Selkirk fled to Paris , left his so called secret at St Denis and went to Le Coq d'Or where he was arrested and taken to England . ’ |
| 25 | Just before he was due to return home for Christmas , he was arrested and charged with possessing , manufacturing and selling alcohol , as well as operating a still . |
| 26 | Once shortly after he was arrested and over the weekend when he was examined by a police surgeon . ’ |
| 27 | but he was arrested and sacked so we have to have a bouncer |
| 28 | ( ii ) No , he was arrested as soon as he came out of the water . |