Sentence examples for had been grabbed from inspiring English sources

Dalton said she wanted her coats to look as if they had been "grabbed off the back of a chair".

Mr Zuybyr claimed his brother-in-law had been tortured violently, threatened with rape and his private parts had been grabbed.

Mr. Amiri arrived in Tehran on Thursday repeating his allegation that he had been grabbed in Saudi Arabia by the C.I.A. and Saudi intelligence, and tortured.

He said he had been grabbed by police officers as he tried to flee Pearl Square early Thursday morning, when security forces attacked without warning while thousands of demonstrators slept.

But several of the former farmers told your correspondent that they were still barred from the unemployment benefits and other welfare privileges of city dwellers even though their farmland had been grabbed from them.

Her boyfriend, Dale Ogarro, had been grabbed by two armed men wearing hoods, masks and latex gloves and led — gun to his head — into his residence in the basement of the home, on Schenck Avenue.

"They had been grabbing information for a long time.

How much land has been grabbed?

But the rhetorical lead has been grabbed by Mr Sarkozy.

The headlines have been grabbed by the senior management moves.

Everything I know has been grabbed here and there in bits".