Example sentences of "police are [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is presumably what the police are referring to when they say they should be left to deal with problems in the force themselves . |
| 2 | ‘ No , do n't tell me the police are looking for a getaway sleigh . |
| 3 | Police are looking for a scruffy man aged 17 to 21 . |
| 4 | ‘ The police are looking for the woman . |
| 5 | When Melissa gave her name , she burst out in mingled relief and fear , ‘ Ms Craig , the police are looking for Rick ! ’ ' 'Yes , I know , ’ said Melissa . |
| 6 | Police are looking for any links with today 's fire . |
| 7 | The man police are looking for is in his 20s , of Afro Carribean appearance and powerfully built . |
| 8 | Now the police are looking for him again — he 's thought to be heading back to Milton Keynes after running away on a visit to court in London . |
| 9 | The police are looking for two men , one of them about 23 , with scruffy black hair , a white shirt and blue jacket and trousers . |
| 10 | Police are looking for a man who 's five feet eleven inches tall and of medium build . |
| 11 | Police are looking for two white youths who were seen running away . |
| 12 | The man police are looking for is well built , about 5ft 9in or 10in , and was wearing a dark blouson jacket . |
| 13 | Cleveland Police are looking for an unusual recruit a horse following the retirement of ten-year-old mare Gellerdale . |
| 14 | Police are looking for thieves who broke into a car in Catterick Village , near Richmond , and stole various tools worth a total value of about £700 . |
| 15 | Police are looking for information on a Pye radio cassette stolen from a car in Hewitson Road , Darlington , serial number 9009043504 . |
| 16 | Police are looking for witnesses to a road accident between a motorcycle and a car outside Dean 's Garden Centre , Seamer Road , Scarborough . |
| 17 | Whitby police are looking for thieves who preyed on an elderly woman living alone and made off with family heirlooms worth £15,000 . |
| 18 | POLICE are looking for an antiques dealer who mysteriously vanished from his Barnard Castle home last month . |
| 19 | You say the police are looking into this already ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ When you are carrying a lethal load like that anything could happen whether or not police are looking after it . ’ |
| 21 | Three hundred police are hunting for the person who has now killed seven back-packers , including two Britons , in Australia . |
| 22 | The man police are hunting after double rape . |
| 23 | Police are searching for people who attacked a pony , leaving it with a gaping wound six inches long in its leg . |
| 24 | POLICE are searching for the driver of a crashed car who ran off leaving his passenger trapped in the wreckage . |
| 25 | POLICE are searching for the owners of four stolen paintings . |
| 26 | Police are searching for thieves who broke into a house in Corporation Road and stole a video recorder and jewellery worth £550 . |
| 27 | CENTRAL Scotland police are searching for a man seen leaving a building which was deliberately set alight on Stirling Road , Dunblane , late last Friday evening . |
| 28 | POLICE are searching for two youths who escaped from Castle Huntly young offenders institution in Perthshire last night . |
| 29 | Police are searching for a blunt instrument . |
| 30 | Blacks reckon the opposite ; they reckon the police are picking on them . |