Funny Crime Stories – Szenvedő szerkezet gyakorlás
Incredible Criminals
Complete the text with the passive forms.
A televison set ……………(steal) from a Liverpool police station, while officers were out fighting crime.
Fugitive James Sanders, who escaped from jail in 1975, ………….. (arrest) in Texas after ringing the FBI to ask if he was still on its ‘wanted’ list.
An 85-year-old man ……….. (stop) and ………….. (escort) off the M4 motorway by the traffic police because he was riding in a wheelchair. The wheelchair ………….. (push) along in the slow lane by his 65-year-old son.
Burglar Frank Gort broke down in court and cried when he ………….. (sentence) to seven years in jail, claiming it was his unlucky number. The understanding judge took pity and gave him eight years instead.
A thief who stole a bottle of whisky from a supermarket ………….. (arrest) for shoplifting when he went back for a bottle of Coke.
Police cars …………… (involve) in a dramatic chase when an 18-year-old, driving his parents’ new car reached 160 kilometres per hour before he ………….. (stop) by traffic police and ……………. (escort) off the motorway.
Yesterday two men ………….. (arrest) in London, after a bank ………… (rob) the day before. It ……………. (believe) that the robbers used a car that ………….. (report) stolen two days earlier. The car ………….. (find) abandoned several miles away. The two suspects ………………. (take) to the police station for questioning. The money ………….. (not find) yet. The robbers ………….. (find) easily and quickly as the mother of one of them called the police when she saw her little boy in a mask and got frightened.