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

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1 A shopkeeper who refused to sell constables cigarettes at a discount and complained of the illegal sale of similar goods to the public from their own trading organization , the Police Guild , could find himself summonsed by the same officers for employing children under age ( which in turn gave rise to the banning of the Police Guild by the Watch Committee ) .
2 Under the name of J. J. Marric he then produced from 1955 onwards a series of books written round a police officer by the name of Gideon .
3 She 'd even been taken to the police station by the teacher to see if they , the police , wanted to speak to her .
4 An arrested person has to be ‘ taken to a police station by a constable as soon as practicable after the arrest ’ .
5 He also protested at the general level of unemployment in the country and issued specific demands for the reinstatement of the standing of the Panamanian security forces which had been largely disarmed and reduced to a police force by the US-backed civilian government .
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