Example sentences of "[prep] be [art] police [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although ‘ Tuxy ’ Girdle may not have been a youthful Hooligan , it did emerge that he had been running whores and he received a substantial sentence of penal servitude for the assault on the man whom the gang had suspected of being a police spy . |
| 2 | Strangely , though , there appears to be no police urgency to feel a certain goalkeeping jersey collar at Nottingham Forest , despite newspaper pictures showing someone resembling Brian Clough making a sign with two of his fingers . |
| 3 | Detention is supervised by a custody officer who turns out on closer inspection to be a police officer with a different name . |
| 4 | Well , yeah , I spoke to them like , on the telephone , erm and basically they er and we agreed that we would n't take it any further so it er happened to be a police officer 's view as against our view , and whilst we did n't agree with the view , er we sent enough references to make our point known anyway . |
| 5 | ‘ Usually , ’ he went on , ‘ when there 's to be a police raid of any sort we know about it before it happens . |