Example sentences of "[be] a police [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like , I 'd say to a young officer , maybe just out of the depot [ training centre ] , if a old lady calls you for assistance to her , you 're a police officer and she will look to you for help , ad we have to leave people with a certain level of satisfaction . |
| 2 | But also because you 're a police officer as well , you 've got the usual warrant card . |
| 3 | ‘ My name is Deacon Billingsley — ’ he paused as though I should recognise the name , ‘ and I am a police officer . ’ |
| 4 | I am a police officer and he is my prisoner . |
| 5 | ‘ where a police constable ( or a traffic warden ) in uniform ’ This point can be proved by starting the officer 's or the warden 's evidence by ‘ I am a police constable ( or traffic warden ) in such and such a police force and I was in uniform ’ . |
| 6 | Indeed no one who is , or has been a police officer can be appointed . |
| 7 | ‘ No ! … you can not do this to me … you are a police officer … you dare not … no ! … my God , no ! … ’ |
| 8 | I 'm a police officer . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I know you 'll think this is funny but I 'm a police officer . |
| 10 | ‘ Usually , ’ he went on , ‘ when there 's to be a police raid of any sort we know about it before it happens . |
| 11 | Detention is supervised by a custody officer who turns out on closer inspection to be a police officer with a different name . |
| 12 | Well , yeah , I spoke to them like , on the telephone , erm and basically they er and we agreed that we would n't take it any further so it er happened to be a police officer 's view as against our view , and whilst we did n't agree with the view , er we sent enough references to make our point known anyway . |
| 13 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
| 14 | dad I have n't gon na be a police , but you have to be careful any sort of car can be a police car |
| 15 | The road blocks were a police response to criminal action , a counter to terrorist attacks in this area , he said . |
| 16 | Being a police officer entails working long and difficult hours ’ ( The Guardian , 3.6. 1986 ) . |
| 17 | They were not required to escort prisoners from court or to other prisons , this being a police responsibility in India , so during the day there might be 70 or so warders in the prison at any one time . |
| 18 | But although ‘ Tuxy ’ Girdle may not have been a youthful Hooligan , it did emerge that he had been running whores and he received a substantial sentence of penal servitude for the assault on the man whom the gang had suspected of being a police spy . |
| 19 | It may look like an exclusive jewellers , 4 display cases stuffed with expensive rings and necklaces ; in fact it 's a police station in the Forest of Dean Gloucestershire . |
| 20 | er , and if ever an incident happens in our part of Leicester , and there 's a police statement about it , it 's usually quoting him . |
| 21 | although his dad 's er , you know his dad 's a police surgeon ? |
| 22 | It 's a police outfit in then the hat . |
| 23 | but , then the next morning of course when Wendy got home she 'd been down my nephew 's looking after the kids for them and erm , and said we 've come to arrest you , and no , oh Rachael said oh mum there 's a police car pulled up outside , so she said , oh my god do n't tell me they 're wrong and it is Tracey , cos Tracey 's left home , she 's gone to live with her friend and erm , anyway , when Wendy got to the stairs she could n't go in , she could n't go any further and she said erm , when , when the policeman said Mrs I 've come to arrest you , she just about said Christ she said what have I done ? |
| 24 | That 's what it er seems like erm if there 's a police car you can bet your life the chances are there 's gon na be another one or an ambulance if there 's been an accident . |
| 25 | There 's a police car comes up here at twelve o'clock every night . |
| 26 | ‘ They wo n't know that he 's a police official . ’ |
| 27 | It 's a police job already so why not give them some solid evidence like burn marks ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It is a police requirement that you have to be an active member of a club before you can be recommended to apply to purchase a firearm . ’ |
| 29 | My husband and I bought Millie as a companion for Mac , my Standard Poodle , and for my peace of mind , as my husband is a police officer who frequently works nights . |
| 30 | " The only person likely to use one of the old codes is a police officer . " |