Sentence examples for up a raid from inspiring English sources

When they said yes, we set up a raid, at two o'clock on Coldharbour Lane on a weekend afternoon.

Two men at the bar started a commotion ending up in a raid.

When Adam, 25, was swept up in a raid on a downtown Turkish bath last November, he experienced another indignity.

She is afraid of being deported — picked up in a raid and separated from her son or husband.

Last year, he was picked up in a raid on his workplace in Phoenix and deported back to Mexico.

In Strike Back we first see our man aboard a warship in the Persian Gulf in 2003, gearing up for a raid to rescue a British hostage.

"There is always a chance that the North is setting us up for a raid that they know will find nothing," one official said.

As for the 31 ordered released, they were rounded up during a raid on a suspected Taliban or Qaeda compound said to store weapons.

The men were picked up during a raid of the building by President Nuri Kamal al-Maliki's special forces and are still in custody, a ministry official said.

The reporter, Barry Bearak, was swept up during a raid on a small hotel frequented by foreign journalists in the suburbs of Harare, the capital, on Thursday afternoon.

In a statement, the police said the man used the online alias Topiary and had been picked up during a raid on a residence in the Shetland Islands, the rugged archipelago off the northeastern coast of Scotland.