Example sentences of "police said the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police said the ferocity of the killings prompted the reward , one of the highest in 12 years . |
| 2 | Superintendent Don Randall of the City police said the road blocks would not become a permanent feature on city streets . |
| 3 | Police said the scene was ‘ unbelievable , with blood everywhere . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The police said the gas canister was about three-quarters full , which suggests it had only been tested and never used in earnest , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Police said the name John Haydon was fictitious , but the address was genuine . |
| 6 | Police said the child was born within the past few days . |
| 7 | Police said the driver , who lives nearby with his grandmother , had failed a roadside breath test . |
| 8 | Police said the driver was breath tested but not charged . |
| 9 | Police said the man 's body was covered in scratches where Theresa had desperately fought him . |
| 10 | Police said the man was swimming despite warnings . |
| 11 | Police said the man was described as white , 6ft tall , with mousy , cropped hair . |
| 12 | A spokesman for Guisborough police said the man made three distinct grabs at her . |
| 13 | Hampshire police said the man , arrested earlier in the day , was not charged . |
| 14 | Police said the swing Kieran Michael Donaghy was playing on , was attached to a tree in the back garden of his home at Glack near Ballykelly , when the tragedy occurred . |
| 15 | Police said the gunman , in his early 20s and identified only as Marc , carried a hit list with the names of 15 women in a letter found on his body . |
| 16 | Police said the gunman , in his early 20s and identified only as Marc , carried a hit list with the names of 15 women in a letter found on his body . |
| 17 | Police said the assault , which occurred in the early hours of yesterday morning at Chesnut House in St James Drive , Bootle , had been brutal and apparently without motive . |
| 18 | Police said the patrol car had its blue light flashing and a B-test on the driver proved negative . |
| 19 | Police said the message was a decoy to distract attention from the real danger area . |
| 20 | Police said the couple were walking to their hotel from a restaurant when a man drove a car up beside them , pointed a gun and ordered them to lie down . |
| 21 | Police said the bicycle , valued at £200 , had been left chained to railings but was cut free by the thieves . |
| 22 | The caretaker who alerted Childline and police said the girl once told him ‘ she did n't care where she lived as long as it was n't with her mother ’ . |
| 23 | The French police said the number they had called did not exist but in fact it was a special number allocated to the DGSE . |
| 24 | police said the attacker probably planned to rape [ the 14-year-old schoolgirl ] in his car after reading about the ordeal of the motorway monster 's victims . |
| 25 | Police said the dog had always been protective to Clare 's father , a worker at Gosport Navy base . |
| 26 | Police said the house , at Little Chart , was isolated and a prime target for burglary , but could not comment on reports that the break-in was the eighth the home-owner had suffered . |
| 27 | Police said the death is being treated as suicide and a report is being prepared for the coroner . |
| 28 | Police said the family was monitored by Haringey social services . |
| 29 | At the time , police said the motive was robbery . |
| 30 | Hampshire police said the woman 's courage and quick-thinking had brought her and the baby unharmed through ‘ a nasty and apparently motiveless ’ crime . |