Example sentences of "[prep] the police [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He argued , convincingly , that noun phrases taken as a whole may quite often have a different temporal assignment from that of the verb which they accompany , as in : ( 37 ) I used to be a good friend of the police chief The underlined phrase may be understood as past relative to the time of utterance ( and hence in agreement with the time indicated by the verb ) or as present ; the two different time-values correspond to the two different continuations in : ( 38 ) … before he joined the force … until he was shot for corruption The first continuation would be compatible with an expansion of the subject phrase to the man who is the police chief , while the second would support the man who was the police chief .
2 At the end of the police investigation the suspect must be taken before a prosecutor who decides how the case should proceed .
3 As they were getting out of the police car a royal blue Land Rover drew up beside them and a coastguard officer got out .
4 At the start of the police interrogation the suspect is informed of his right of silence and of his right to consult a lawyer , but he has no right to have the lawyer present during the interrogation .
5 Arthur flew to London and stayed in the police morgue a long time with the body that he knew as closely as his own , thinking of Fred 's splendid good nature , his tough-mindedness , and his humour about the absurd and even the terrible .
6 For example , a car was stopped for speeding or ‘ flying low ’ , and upon returning to the police vehicle the constable related the following considerations which influenced his assessment :
7 Eventually two detectives called and Jim went to the police station the next day .
8 While he was detained at the police station a number of police-officers used a key taken from the arrested man to enter his mother 's home .
9 When Findlay arrived at the police station the superintendent ordered that he be held incommunicado .
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