Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] hostage " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 11 April 1986 Minnie Keenan was listening to the radio in her east Belfast home when she heard the news that her son Brian had been taken hostage in Beirut . |
| 2 | Two families had been taken hostage to force the managers of a bank and supermarket to hand over £96,000 . |
| 3 | The US manager , who knew no Spanish , had been taken hostage and had phoned the embassy claiming he had been captured by Communists . |
| 4 | Sullivan also persuaded Bazargan to help obtain the release of a number of Americans who had been taken hostage in the listening posts that the US had manned along the soviet border . |
| 5 | One of the factors that led me to sign up with the DIA was the idea that I might be able to do something for my friend Jerry Levin , who had been taken hostage in Beirut by Hezbollah , but as it happened he was released before I got out there . |
| 6 | According to casualty figures for the conflict in 1991 issued by Nagorny Karabakh 270 Armenians , 216 Azerbaijanis and 15 servicemen of various nationalities had died ; 400 Armenians , 180 Azerbaijanis and 34 servicemen had been wounded ; and 599 Armenians had been taken hostage , of whom 226 had not yet returned . |
| 7 | On June 2 , ECOMOG headquarters in Monrovia announced that six other Senegalese soldiers had been taken hostage by Taylor 's men . |
| 8 | On Aug. 14 , Georgian National Guard detachments were deployed in Abkhazia , following a televised address by Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze , in which he warned that all measures would be employed to secure the release of Interior Minister Roman Gventsadze and other officials , who had been taken hostage on Aug. 11 by supporters of ousted Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia . |
| 9 | The resignation of Richardson , then Minister of Justice and National Security , tendered on Sept. 18 for failing to prevent the attempted coup and the ensuing looting , was not accepted at the time by the Prime Minister , with whom Richardson had been held hostage during the crisis . |
| 10 | Two German aid workers , Thomas Kemptner and Heinrich Strubig , had been held hostage in Lebanon since 1989 . |
| 11 | The organization claimed that several people , including church workers , had been held hostage and that at least 11 Tuaregs had been executed . |
| 12 | Two German relief workers who had been held hostage in Beirut since May 17 , 1989 , were released on June 17 . |
| 13 | Since 1982 , 92 foreigners had been held hostage in Lebanon and at least 10 had died in captivity . |
| 14 | Fears had grown for the safety of Pringle 's former girlfriend , 21-year-old Leanne Rees , who had been held hostage in the house since Sunday . |