Example sentences of "the police [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that he 'd heard the plane flying around , but did n't realise that it had crashed , until the police sealed off the farm . |
| 2 | He says that he 'd heard the plane flying around , but did n't realise that it had crashed , until the police sealed off the farm . |
| 3 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance : and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 4 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and before the case for the Crown has been closed , provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance ; and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 5 | Eventually the police got into the house and a man was arrested . |
| 6 | Once the police got into the van , they found plenty of evidence to connect Charley with the murders . |
| 7 | Previously , picketing had taken the form of pushing and shoving on both sides , but the confiscation of union banners and the pickets ' public address system by the police led to the throwing of stones and bottles by strikers . |
| 8 | The police came to the college to arrest some of the students . |
| 9 | I mean the street I lived once and er the police came to the party , it did get switched down a little bit , but er th the falling out after that for the next week , who rang the police and you |
| 10 | This is not a case where the police came upon the crime and looked to see who had a motive , ’ he said . |
| 11 | The police arrived during the beginning of Act Four , set in ‘ the hole under the ground ’ . |
| 12 | One of the first things that had been done when the police arrived at the house was to examine all windows and doors for signs of forcible entry . |
| 13 | But it was n't funny this morning when the police arrived on the doorstep . |
| 14 | When the police regrouped with the intention of holding a railway bridge , pickets constructed blazing barricades out of the remnants of scrapped cars , telegraph poles and a portakabin to prevent a second advance . |
| 15 | When the police called in the boys ' parents , one of them accused Mr Wisson of kidnapping . |