Example sentences of "[prep] a police [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | A lot of people like it because basically th er when you look after a police dog it becomes your pet as well , you take it home with you and you take it to work with you , and the u you 'll have a police dog for sort of like its working life of seven to eight years , so basically you 're gon na have him for seven to eight years and he becomes a fa like a family pet . |
2 | The face of a police chief who was having a ‘ tough one ’ . |
3 | The affair thus highlights the unreality of the common-law rule which continues to concentrate on the independent judgment of a police officer who is in fact simply obeying instructions which are issued as part of a general policy not necessarily susceptible of being influenced by the specific facts of particular cases . |
4 | When one woman tried to remove barbed wire from the path of a police horse she feared would get hurt , her photograph became the basis for a frenzied attack which ran the headline , ‘ Horse Whipped With Barbed Wire ’ . |
5 | Prisoners who shared a cell with an alleged murderer have been telling a jury about threats made against a police informer whose body was later found in a lake . |
6 | ‘ In 23 years as a police officer I have never seen such horrific injuries , ’ said Det Supt Bill King . |
7 | As a matter of police practice , firearms practice what would you say about a police officer who stuck the gun at any at the back of someone 's neck ? |
8 | Above all , he sought to bring the headmen , or ‘ village police ’ , fully into a police structure which would cover the entire island . |
9 | When they travelled together in a police car they had driven around in silence . |
10 | We 're also buzzed by two cops in a police car who spot our New Jersey number plate and think we 've come down to score crack in Washington Heights . |
11 | In a police statement she said : ‘ On Malta he visited a friend who owns a bakery and a brother whose name is Abdes Salam . |
12 | She wanted both of these to some extent but only in a police force whose integrity she could believe in . |
13 | How can we as Black women have any faith in a police force which refuses to acknowledge our calls for help , refuses to provide protection , and refuses to take action against those who attack us ? |
14 | Det Chief Insp John Stoddart described the brick-throwing as a callous , premeditated attack on a police officer who was acting in the public 's interest . |
15 | I have yet to come across a police officer who is not interested in stamping out racism . ’ |
16 | This point can best be proved by a police officer who observes some actual unnecessary obstruction of the road causing other road users inconvenience , delay , or complete blockage of the road etc . |
17 | CHAMPIONS Leeds face an FA inquiry after being reported by a police officer who was shocked by their four-letter tirade . |
18 | ‘ He was set upon by a police officer who simply wanted to speak to him but had no right in law and the appellant had the right to resist him , ’ said Mr Macdonald . |
19 | All this time I had been followed by a police car which now stopped . |
20 | For the first time details of serious crimes , including all cases of cattle stealing which village headmen chose to report , were investigated by a police force which could in theory take quick and decisive action . |
21 | The re-contras claimed that 66 former contras had been killed during the year in continuing clashes with Sandinista army and police personnel who they wanted replaced by a police force which included ex-contras . |
22 | The posters were fixed at night and the culprits were never caught — or , more likely , never looked for by a police force who enjoyed the joke as much as the rest of the city . |