Example sentences of "[adv] a police " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Suddenly a police van came round the corner and pulled up to see what was going on . |
| 2 | Suddenly a police car emerges from the archway in the palace , its blue light flashing , followed by a closed Cadillac with tinted windows and a pennant on the wing . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm just a police officer . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm just a police officer . |
| 5 | To it 's even worse I mean there , there does n't even seem to be a government in the there 's just a police force and an army and no one making political decisions , so it 's a peculiarity of recent political philosophy there seems to be no room left for the democratic process to do much apart from administer , so the democracy is given a very minor role . |
| 6 | Finally a police sergeant was called and the demonstrators withdrew . |
| 7 | This point is proved by a prosecution witness who is usually a police officer , but sometimes can be a pedestrian who was not accorded precedence . |
| 8 | They patrol the streets quite regularly and there is always a police car there if you want one . |
| 9 | Bicycles should have a reliable padlock and carry some form of identification , preferably a police stamp . |
| 10 | Not unnaturally a police world values uniformity , for as the language infers it embodies the essentials of a system obsessed with physical and ideological concepts of order and discipline . |
| 11 | An hour and a half later a police wagon pulled up at the dock , and out from the back climbed a bleary-eyed Howard escorted by two gendarmes . |
| 12 | A few minutes later a police jeep screeched to a halt outside . |
| 13 | An hour later a police constable went to the house to confirm Mr Hutchinson 's fears . |
| 14 | Certain tasks can be performed only through the combined efforts of a number of people working together — e.g. a police or a medical operation . |
| 15 | Now a police truant squad is out to take them off the streets . |
| 16 | That 's not really a police word is it ? |
| 17 | The editor of the left-wing magazine Towards 2000 went into hiding on April 12 following a police raid in his absence on his office and residence , and the magazine 's publishers , Hürriyet , announced they would cease publishing the magazine for fear of violating the new rules on censorship . |
| 18 | Ten days ago a police bullet had hit the explosive which Terry Place had hidden in a carrier bag in the tunnel . |
| 19 | Yet , in 1989 , according to the FBI , only 15% of all murder victims were related to their killers ; 39% were ‘ acquainted ’ with their murderers , but this figure would include , say , a drug dealer killed by a fellow gang member , or even a police officer murdered by a suspect whom he or she had once arrested . |
| 20 | Normally , a ride in a car , even a police car , would be something of a treat for a child particularly now that a gratifying crowd was beginning to collect to witness his notoriety , drawn by the yards of white tape which sealed off the whole of the south part of the church and by the police cars and the unmistakable black and sinister mortuary van parked between the church wall and the canal . |
| 21 | Then a police car pulled in behind , then another one , and four lovely bobbies got out and told the Americans — well , they must have been Americans , and huge they were — to put their guns away or be disarmed . |
| 22 | Cyril Connolly had offered a similar generosity and recognition to the young Arlott , then a police sergeant in Southampton , given to writing poetry . |
| 23 | We 're not yet a police lab even if you do walk in and out of the place as if it 's your own kitchen . |
| 24 | Ait Ahmed on Dec. 28 told French television : " We have always said : neither a police state nor a fundamentalist state . |
| 25 | The man was evidently a police officer , off duty . |
| 26 | Sure er it 's John currently a police sergeant stationed at . |
| 27 | Mr Chambers said shortly afterwards a police officer arrived and a van pulled up with six men inside . |