Sentence examples for had been prisoner from inspiring English sources
Rummaging through the abandoned Apache camp where White had been prisoner, Carson found a copy of Averill's just published "Kit Carson"; Ann White had carried it with her all the way from Missouri.
Gruppe and Müncheberg was given command of the 7. Staffel as Staffelkapitän (Squadron Leader), replacing Oberleutnant Georg Beyer who had been prisoner of war after being shot down.
(Thankfully, the reporters who had been prisoners in the Rixos Hotel are now safe).
The men had been prisoners in concentration camps at Omarska and Keraterm in north-west Bosnia.
At the time of Cleghorn's birth, the Apache people had been prisoners of the U.S. government since the surrender of Geronimo in 1886, but, when she was four years old, they were released from their prisoner-of-war status.
Up to 19% appear to have been prisoners.
Often forced to operate their captured ships at gunpoint, with little food or water, some of them have been prisoners for months.
Several of the essays in the book conclude, that a primary source of organs has been prisoners of conscience, specifically practitioners of Falun Gong.
Half of our walkers this week have been prisoners themselves, their confinement having stemmed from participating in a variety of civil resistance actions protesting injustices and wars.
He had been a prisoner and had escaped.
