Example sentences of "[been] [verb] by [art] police " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been stopped by the police several times for driving too slowly . |
| 2 | ( nearly one in five ) had been stopped by the police in the street . |
| 3 | of drivers who reported never speeding , 8% had been stopped by the police ; this rose to 62% for those drivers who admitted to speeding regularly . |
| 4 | Several complaints from local residents have been received by the police regarding the unsocial behaviour and vandalism of youths in the park . |
| 5 | In the conversation that followed , Fagin told the newcomer that Oliver had been caught by the police . |
| 6 | I helped along people who 'd been caught by the police , sentenced by the court and had their death warrant signed by the Home Secretary . |
| 7 | I helped along people who 'd been caught by the police , sentenced by the court and had their death warrant signed by the Home Secretary . |
| 8 | Francis Tidbury admitted his guilt from his death cell , but stated that he had been attacked by the police and had killed in self-defence . |
| 9 | Many of the victims were in poor health and , in some cases , had been incarcerated by the police on the assumption that they were drunk when in fact they were suffering from diseases which were life-threatening when treatment was withheld . |
| 10 | The Guildford Four were freed in 1990 after it became clear that evidence used against them had been fabricated by the police . |
| 11 | ‘ It was contended that a cover-up operation had been organised by the police to suppress the truth and to use Kennedy as a scapegoat , ’ Lord Taylor said . |
| 12 | . More than once my grandpa 's shop had been visited by the police officers , but , however well founded their suspicions , my relative usually managed to keep well within the law . |
| 13 | This had previously been organized by the police but had not been seriously updated for years . |
| 14 | They also expressed their concern that a manse and church buildings had been searched by the police , and items of an ecclesiastical nature removed . |
| 15 | I have been searched by the police . |
| 16 | She is extremely distressed and has been seen by a police surgeon . |
| 17 | No-one I met had even been seen by the police . |
| 18 | He has been seen by the police surgeon who certified him fit to be detained . |
| 19 | Although bus route numbers had been regulated by the police for a number of years , there were still several separate numbering systems among the tramway undertakings taken over . |
| 20 | He had been told by the police to say as little as possible to anyone . |
| 21 | The defendant had been told by the police to leave the scene outside a party where he had been swearing and shouting , which he grudgingly did , continuing to use foul language . |
| 22 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 23 | This power has been used by the police in a variety of ways ; to ask demonstrators to leave the scene , even when acting peacefully . |
| 24 | Mrs James then told the court how she and Mr Loxton had been transported by the police to Nottingham some time later , where she saw the same man in a street there . |
| 25 | It was unlikely ; any obvious signs of a struggle would have been noted by the police . |
| 26 | Bourke claimed that Blake brought his two-way radio with him when he escaped and both radios were left at Bourke 's flat in Highlever Road where they must have been found by the police when they raided the flat on I January 1967 . |
| 27 | Jack Hassard , an NILP member of Dungannon Council , condemned the ban on the Market Square meeting , which had only been notified by the police at twelve o'clock the previous night . |
| 28 | A person whose chattels have been seized by the police can apply for an order for delivery of the goods and damages under section 3 of the Torts ( Interference with Goods ) Act 1977 . |
| 29 | It continues : ‘ Any child or young person who has been arrested by the police and is not sent home on bail is to be consigned to this remand home whilst awaiting trial ’ . |
| 30 | Laidlaw had been detained by the police only hours after Barak 's murder and although they had interrogated him at regular intervals every four hours , trying to break him down , he had managed to stick to his story . |