He was a civil servant and had been kidnapped a month earlier.

Had he been kidnapped an hour earlier he would have considered his life of little consequence.

The envelope contained three articles about me and a little boy who had been kidnapped earlier in the fall.

He and seven others had been kidnapped three weeks earlier.

The women and children were kidnapped from their villages earlier.

He had been kidnapped a week earlier fron his residence.

Also, in the original book, Calculus was kidnapped earlier in the story.

Castang is consulted by a woman whose young son was kidnapped four years earlier and never found.

Somewhat smaller than the one that had earlier kidnapped Nestor, it looked at him but kept its distance.

In December 2012, the unit rescued a US doctor who had been kidnapped a few days earlier.