Object

• alcohol: The police have the power to confiscate alcohol from anyone under the age of 18 who drinks in public.

• passport: They also face having their passports confiscated to stop them taking foreign holidays.

• estate: Alexander Norris, a puritan, handled the confiscated estates of Royalist families in Lancashire during the Civil War.

Subject

• police: This follows the case of a man who demanded the return of the money, nearly £ 400,000, confiscated by police.

• government: For the return of property of the Armenian Protestants that was confiscated by the Turkish Government.

Modifying Another Word

• illegally: Dozens were detained for several hours when arriving to the city, their personal belongings or even passports being illegally confiscated by the police.

• immediately: In certain cases driving licenses will be confiscated immediately.

• also: He also confiscated property from the Roman Catholic Church in Sweden to pay Sweden's war debts.

• then: They questioned me for a considerable length of time, then confiscated the food items from me.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• along: Approximately 250,000 pieces of pirated optical disks were confiscated along with over 40 burners.

Used with why or when

• when: All cans, bottles etc. whether sealed or not, can be seized and confiscated immediately when it becomes a problem.

Preposition: by

• police: This follows the case of a man who demanded the return of the money, nearly £ 400,000, confiscated by police.

• government: For the return of property of the Armenian Protestants that was confiscated by the Turkish Government.