Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] by police " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alan Stewart , who 'd been arrested by police six months ago and questioned about allegations of indecency , was on the staff of New Barns School at Toddington in Gloucestershire when it closed in the autumn . |
| 2 | Every step they took was dogged by police officers . |
| 3 | His arrest was part of a longstanding FBI investigation ; four of the charges on which he was indicted dated back to December 1988 when he had been discovered by police in a hotel room with a convicted drug dealer , Charles Lewis . |
| 4 | The Director of Public Prosecutions , Sir Allan Green , resigned on Oct. 3 after he had been stopped by police while talking to a prostitute in a London " red-light " district . |
| 5 | He had been questioned by police , then released . |
| 6 | In mid-June Conde had been questioned by police in connection with the discovery of parcels of weapons and political leaflets at the airport ; his summons provoked clashes between his supporters and the security forces , after which some 60 people were arrested and all demonstrations in the capital banned . |
| 7 | The Court of Appeal heard that a witness whose evidence sent another man to jail for murder in 1988 had been bribed by police . |
| 8 | They 'd been heading for a festival in Chipping Sodbury , but had been diverted by police . |
| 9 | In March he had been sought by police for crashing his '66 Corvette Sting-Ray into a car he was trying to pass and then driving away . |
| 10 | During a debate on March 4 on the final report of the Commission for the Investigation of the Events of Nov. 17 , 1989 ( when student protests had been crushed by police — see p. 37026 ; see p. 37737 for initial report ) , the Federal Assembly approved legislation to allow Czechoslovak citizens access to files kept on them by the StB . |
| 11 | The 2 had been watched by police and were arrested shortly afterwards at their homes in Gloucester and Ruscombe near Stroud . |
| 12 | The move had been preceded by police visits to the printers of It , Oz , and Rolling Stone . |
| 13 | The stolen Vauxhall Cavalier had been spotted by police on the Hardwick Estate only moments before the crash . |
| 14 | Mr Roberts said Sarbutts had been held by police on a minor offence in October , 1988 , when police were still searching for Mr Galvin 's killer . |
| 15 | A " procession of silence " for the restoration of constitutional rights , declared illegal by the government on April 1 , had proceeded in Caracas on April 2 and had been dispersed by police using water cannon , tear gas and birdshot . |