Example sentences of "[vb infin] [art] police [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They let all the big companies go round digging holes in the road , and when people fall in and complain they say it 's all for their own good , and after a while they hope the people will revolt so they can give the police guns and thin out the population , and then they 'll have a police state — which is what they 've always wanted — and the rich will be able to live in peace . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Tantum criticised a suggestion made by the Law Commission this year that hacking in its simple form should be an offence which did not give the police powers to arrest suspects or search their premises . |
| 3 | I would follow the police officers escorting the prisoner or prisoners up a flight of stairs into the small but impressive court-room , where I took a chair reserved for reporters at counsel 's table . |
| 4 | You could get stopped by women , saying : ‘ Can I have the police clothes ? ’ |
| 5 | Did n't you hear the police sirens last night ? ’ |
| 6 | Without binoculars Trent could decipher the POLICE signs on the two Land-Rovers ' front doors as the sharp bends in the track forced the drivers broadside to the cabin . |
| 7 | Official attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reform and strengthen the police duties of headmen were carried out at a time when the overall influence of headmen was on the wane . |