Sentence examples for had detained from inspiring English sources

People, he said had detained him.

The police had detained the organizers before the event began.

A session of notes with the director had detained him.

The police confirmed Wednesday that they had detained three men in his killing.

The fishermen whom the Kuwaiti authorities had detained were now back in Iraq, he said.

They refused, when asked by The Independent on Sunday, to explain why they had detained him.

The official, who gave his surname as Li, said the police had detained one suspect.

Police Scotland confirmed that they had detained two men for questioning in relation to the incident.

They had detained a suspected police agent who they claimed had stabbed somebody.

The authorities then announced that they had detained a farmer who confessed to throwing his animals into the river.

Later, the police said they had detained Tajik snipers who had been hired by the former president.