Example sentences of "officer [Wh pn] [vb past] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rebecque galloped back towards the Dutch battery , shouting at its Colonel to open fire on the concealed columns , but the Colonel was staring at one of his officers who had been killed by a skirmisher 's bullet . |
| 2 | The freeing of the five communists was more than balanced by the simultaneous release of four army colonels and 12 other officers who had been imprisoned for participating in coup attempts against the Aquino government . |
| 3 | The agreement paved the way for the opening of talks on Jan. 11 , 1993 , and was followed by a goodwill gesture on Dec. 24 in which the armed forces released from military detention three generals and 40 other officers who had been imprisoned for involvement in coup attempts . |
| 4 | The officers who died were named as Constable William Hanson and Reserve Constables David Sterritt and Cyril Willis . |
| 5 | At the big house I met the Officer who had been looking for me earlier on . |
| 6 | That was not altogether surprising given that , as a KGB officer who had been posted to London for six years , it would be astonishing if he had not . ’ |
| 7 | He glanced round the corner of the altar and watched a German officer who had been hit in the side of the head slump through the curtains and out of a wooden box on to the stone floor . |
| 8 | A prison officer who had been dismissed from the prison service appealed against his dismissal to the Civil Service Appeal Board , which held that his dismissal was unfair . |