Example sentences of "police [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A demonstration on April 2 by up to 3,000 people outside the DP headquarters in the capital , Tirana , was dispersed by police firing into the air . |
| 3 | Whether the curbs on police investigation will reduce police influence on the outcome of the criminal process is not easy to determine . |
| 4 | Eventually the police got into the house and a man was arrested . |
| 5 | Once the police got into the van , they found plenty of evidence to connect Charley with the murders . |
| 6 | Well , not that bad really , but they 'd laden a van in London bound for Torquay , and managed to overfill it somewhat , so that when membership services executive Kevin Ramage ( driver ) and conference executive Meryl Halls ( navigator ) were stopped on the road to Torquay and instructed by the police to proceed to the nearest weighbridge , they were found to be in contravention of the law . |
| 7 | Instead , the police relied upon the wide range of old laws that were already in place . |
| 8 | WHEN police swooped on the Pan Africanist Congress on May 25th , arresting 70 of its members , including seven members of its national executive , the man who suffered most embarrassment was Roelf Meyer . |
| 9 | Police sources said the news was delayed to prevent a repeat of what they described as a media circus when police swooped on the home of a 12-year-old boy on Tuesday . |
| 10 | The constitutionalisation of the trade unions and the police refers to the former 's growing commitment to procedural settlements and closer political alliance to the Labour Party , and to the latter 's growing independence from local political control . |
| 11 | What do the police think about the killings on the Mudchute ? |
| 12 | Mm , mm get into trouble , you know , with police knocking on the door and |
| 13 | The police appear before the court as witnesses , of course , in many cases , but their status before the court is just like any other erm witness and they have no greater standing before the court , and their evidence is judged by Magistrates on the same basis as that of any other witness . |
| 14 | The crux of recent difficulties in relation to the police lies in the ambiguity of our attitude to them . |
| 15 | However , Lea points out that for writers like Gilroy racism is embodied in the conscious policies and practices of the police as an institution and that it is difficult to argue that the police are de-politicising black struggles , and criminalising them , when some of them , such as the Spaghetti House siege , used crime to obtain political funds , and hence the police responded to the event as crime . |
| 16 | The march was allowed by police to pass into the vast Manezh Square beside the Kremlin walls after it had overspilled the intended venue for its concluding rally , outside the Moscow city soviet building on Gorky Street , but a heavy police cordon prevented the marchers from entering nearby Red Square . |
| 17 | A homeless man who was sleeping rough around Darlington appeared before the town 's magistrates yesterday after he was stopped by police walking through the town with a bag of frozen food . |
| 18 | The man was questioned by officers working on Operation Mountbatten — the police hunt for the so-called Horse Ripper who has carried out almost 30 attacks over the last 18 months in Hampshire and surrounding counties . |
| 19 | Now what do the police know at the time . |
| 20 | Police say against the wrong victim , the stun gun could be deadly . |
| 21 | Police mishandling of the case of the ‘ Yorkshire Ripper ’ , who was not caught despite the evidence available , was subject to scrutiny and complaints . |
| 22 | A police spokesperson declared on Jan. 10 that allegations of police support for the so-called vigilantes was a " blatant lie " . |
| 23 | On the state of the evidence at the moment , it may well be that there will be a request for to withdraw the case from the jury on the grounds that no reasonable jury properly directed could conceivably find er a anything other than reasonableness in the police acting upon the information they had and that 's for me to decide . |
| 24 | What have the police said about the break-in ? |
| 25 | Local people heard armed police shouting at the man , Get out get out . |
| 26 | Police appealed for the hitchhiker , seen walking towards a slip-road to Tadcaster , to contact them . |
| 27 | She also ordered police to cordon off the area and to begin arresting those responsible for the disturbances . |
| 28 | Police moved on the protestors who gathered in the car park after the game calling for Gray to be sacked . |
| 29 | Almost exactly one year after the Handsworth riots , 600 police moved into the area to search several premises in connection with drugs and drinking offences . |
| 30 | Police searching for the remains of a woman who went missing twenty years ago have recovered a body . |