Example sentences of "[vb past] be arrested [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got into work on the big day I found out he 'd been arrested at the weekend . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Agence France-Presse news agency reported on June 7 that a professor and several students at Beijing University had been arrested following incidents on campus . |
| 4 | Muhammad Tulbah Uwaydah , announced on Aug. 23 that 10 serving and retired army officers and a number of civilians had been arrested following an attempted coup . |
| 5 | They were led by Capt. Pascal Tawes , former deputy commander of the Presidential Guard , who had been arrested following the firing of gunshots around the presidential palace on May 27 . |
| 6 | The coroner said he understood that one man had been arrested following inquiries and another man was still being sought . |
| 7 | It was announced on Dec. 5 that 900 drug dealers and traffickers had been hanged during 1989 , that a further 900 faced the death penalty and that a total of 14,000 traffickers had been arrested since March 1989 . |
| 8 | Numerous cases of arbitrary detention , often without trial , were recorded in Israel and the Israeli-occupied territories where an estimated 25,000 Palestinians had been arrested since the start of the intifada , including 4,000 without charge or trial . |
| 9 | Surely it would have been possible at least to give the number of people who had been arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act , and the number of people subsequently charged . |
| 10 | According to different versions , Count Helldorf , Police President of Berlin and later implicated in the July plot of 1944 against Hitler , Julius Streicher , Alfred Rosenberg , Adolf Wagner , and the ‘ blood and soil ’ guru of Nazi agricultural policy Walther Darré , had been arrested for complicity in Hess 's ‘ treason ’ , and some of them already shot . |
| 11 | Since leaving Berlin Blake had had one or two scares when various West Germans had been arrested for spying and made allegations about him . |
| 12 | It agreed with the police that he had been arrested for cycling without due care and attention and that this had been sufficiently communicated to him . |
| 13 | The conditional bail had been granted after she had been arrested for shouting ‘ scab ’ at working miners . |
| 14 | Only a week ago , a drunk in the village had been arrested for singing that song . |
| 15 | Earlier in Weston-Super-Mare Salvation Army leaders had been arrested for proceeding with a march contrary to a ban placed upon it by the local magistrates . |
| 16 | It said that Kambona had claimed that his brother Otini had been arrested for writing an editorial ‘ in favour of human rights and the liberty of the individual ’ . |
| 17 | The three authors , all former Red Guards ( Li Yi Zhe was their collective pen name ) had been arrested for expressing their radical views in ‘ On Socialist Democracy and the Legal System ’ , although at first Deng Xiaoping and Zhao Ziyang had suggested that they supported the main ideas of the poster . |
| 18 | They were also asked how many of those identified had sought medical treatment , counselling , or had been arrested for drug offences during that same period . |
| 19 | And Orlick had been arrested for breaking into Pumblechook 's house and stealing his money . |
| 20 | In Fennell a father sought to secure the release of his son who had been arrested for participating in an affray . |
| 21 | After she had been arrested for playing the two-backed beast with Culpepper — and me , though I was n't caught , but there again that 's another tale — the king 's guards came to take her whilst she was staying at Hampton Court . |
| 22 | Under the emergency powers dozens of bank managers and supermarket owners had been arrested for allegedly refusing to comply with the new legislation . |
| 23 | The official New China News agency ( Xinhua ) reported that in the first nine months of the year 11,503 people had been arrested for such crimes . |
| 24 | Earlier , in the last week of March , 28 officers and civilians had been arrested for reportedly planning a coup against the government . |
| 25 | The Assembly also approved the leadership purge of June and July , when six high-ranking officials in the ruling Khmer People 's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ) had been arrested for trying to set up a new party [ see also pp. 37598-99 ] . |
| 26 | The South Korean police announced on Aug. 22 that 48 people , including 10 soldiers , had been arrested for planning to overthrow the government . |
| 27 | On Nov. 25 and 27 a Beirut-based dissident Shia Moslem group , the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution of Iraq , claimed that 4,500 opposition Moslem fundamentalists , mostly students , had been arrested for distributing leaflets and painting slogans criticizing the regime of Saddam Hussein . |
| 28 | INA reported merely that " a number of adolescents " had been arrested for having " caused panic in several primary schools " . |
| 29 | On Dec. 27 it was announced that 53 students had been arrested for alleged membership of the Democratic Students League ( DSL ) . |
| 30 | On the previous day the Democratic Party had claimed that at least 200 people had been arrested for their part in the previous week 's demonstrations . |