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 .
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