Sentence examples for was made prisoner from inspiring English sources

He was made prisoner in 1940 and released a year later.

In August 871, however, the emperor was made prisoner by Adelchis, duke of Benevento.

Puerto was made prisoner and later gave valuable information about the area to Sebastian Cabot, who arrived there in 1526.

Col Stacy, who was made prisoner when Col. Alden was killed.

Already in 1761, orders were given in Lakhipur "to fire off at the mouth of a cannon the leader of the thieves who was made prisoner, that others may be deterred".

All 38 crewmen survived and were made prisoner for the remainder of the war.

After complaints arose several years ago that the work was making prisoners sick, the inspector general, working with several other federal agencies, conducted 200 interviews, reviewed 10,000 pages of documents and inspected the computer records of Unicor personnel.

Several council members said people were being made prisoners in their homes because they feared gang members on street corners.

Of the actual Dambusters, 53 died in action on the morning of May 17 1943, and three were made prisoners of war.

During the first world war, Arrhenius helped to release and repatriate German and Austrian scientists who had been made prisoners of war.

Nearly 750 personnel were made prisoners of war.