Example sentences of "[pers pn] be a police [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ where a police constable ( or a traffic warden ) in uniform ’ This point can be proved by starting the officer 's or the warden 's evidence by ‘ I am a police constable ( or traffic warden ) in such and such a police force and I was in uniform ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ My name is Deacon Billingsley — ’ he paused as though I should recognise the name , ‘ and I am a police officer . ’ |
| 3 | I am a police officer and he is my prisoner . |
| 4 | I 'm a police officer . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I know you 'll think this is funny but I 'm a police officer . |
| 6 | I was a police officer erm attached or er on a permanent basis with the operations support unit which we were based in er . |
| 7 | Er in December nineteen eighty eight er I was a police constable , I was stationed at I was er a firearms instructor in the operations department and also a tactical advisor . |
| 8 | ‘ No ! … you can not do this to me … you are a police officer … you dare not … no ! … my God , no ! … ’ |
| 9 | Like , I 'd say to a young officer , maybe just out of the depot [ training centre ] , if a old lady calls you for assistance to her , you 're a police officer and she will look to you for help , ad we have to leave people with a certain level of satisfaction . |
| 10 | But also because you 're a police officer as well , you 've got the usual warrant card . |
| 11 | ‘ She is a police officer and naturally in the light of her vocation she was determined he was not going to get away with it . |
| 12 | ‘ If one of you is a police constable , surely he should be in uniform ? ’ |
| 13 | It may look like an exclusive jewellers , 4 display cases stuffed with expensive rings and necklaces ; in fact it 's a police station in the Forest of Dean Gloucestershire . |
| 14 | It 's a police job already so why not give them some solid evidence like burn marks ? ’ |
| 15 | It 's a police outfit in then the hat . |
| 16 | ‘ It is a police requirement that you have to be an active member of a club before you can be recommended to apply to purchase a firearm . ’ |
| 17 | But the detective in a detective novel is not altogether your real policeman , though you do well never to make him ( if he is a police officer ) flout details of proper police procedure . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , because he is a police officer . |
| 19 | ‘ They wo n't know that he 's a police official . ’ |
| 20 | It was a police person telling me that the inquest on Billy Tuckett would be at ten o'clock tomorrow at Queen 's Road mortuary where there was a Coroner 's Court . |
| 21 | The only one who spoke to me about it was a police officer when I was in the police station : ‘ Why is a young girl like you destroying yourself on this stuff . ’ |
| 22 | This time it was a police sergeant , and when Joe went upstairs the sergeant said : " I am looking for Wg Cdr Mahaddie , and I am also looking for one of my constables , " Joe foolishly replied : We might have a wing commander here but we do n't have your constable . " |
| 23 | It was a Police Force out in force to recognise a man who was one of theirs . |
| 24 | Stewart 's chequered career began on the other side of the law in Sydney Australia where he was a police officer … he was even decorated for outstanding bravery in the course of duty . |
| 25 | On Oct. 14 a student , Sol In Jong , was found dead at Yonsei University in Seoul after being beaten and interrogated by other students who believed he was a police informer . |
| 26 | THE IRA murdered a man it said was one of its former members yesterday and claimed he was a police informer . |
| 27 | He was able to use the fact that he was a police sergeant ( and a sociology graduate ) to conduct a covert study of the police at work , and discusses the ethics of such research . |