Example sentences of "[prep] [art] police car " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the police car hummed round the block , one or two other houses caught Dexter 's attention because of their air of dirt and dilapidation : divided into bed-sits , they had batteries of bells by the main door , broken windows mended with brown tape and unkempt front gardens crammed with junk . |
| 2 | Many police officers today , even in the higher ranks , can not remember carrying out their police duties without the assistance of the computer , and it is now as much a part of police back-up as the police car and police radio . |
| 3 | He then fired at Pc Kelly through the police car windscreen , and as the officer lay injured across the front seat walked up to the car , put his hand on the roof to steady himself and emptied the gun into the officer 's body . |
| 4 | Magee pointed the gun through the police car window at PC Kelly and fired twice . |
| 5 | Rita sat in the back of the police car as she was told to do . |
| 6 | Tug watched the back of the police car bump its way up the track . |
| 7 | The engine of the police car was still running . |
| 8 | In the case of the police car , my belief fails to track the truth in both ways , and so is not knowledge . |
| 9 | to smile in the dark of the police car |
| 10 | As they were getting out of the police car a royal blue Land Rover drew up beside them and a coastguard officer got out . |
| 11 | The two were handcuffed together , taken off the bus and put in the back of the police car which then escorted us into town with lights flashing and siren blaring . |
| 12 | Another key piece of evidence was Magee 's palm print on the roof of the police car , matching Pc Kelly 's description of how he steadied himself before firing . |
| 13 | Amaranth sat in the back of the police car with Mrs de Crespigny ( ‘ Nora , my dear ’ ) . |
| 14 | The driver of the police car purchased two packets of Kent and threw one pack to his friend who caught it without a pause in his speech to Signe , then saluted , and both policemen got into the Porsche . |
| 15 | Morse turned to look at the waters once more before he left , then sat silently in the passenger-seat of the police car as Lewis had a final word with Sergeant Dixon . |
| 16 | Lewis had fallen fast asleep on the back seat of the police car and remained so for the whole of the journey back to Oxford . |
| 17 | Although in both cases it can be argued that the sight of the police car is what caused the speaker to be glad , the way in which these notions are put into relation is not the same . |
| 18 | As long as you ignore Detective Sergeant Kellard , sitting quietly in the back seat of the police car . |
| 19 | Margaret Hughes wept in the backseat of the police car that took her from the court to prison . |
| 20 | Mark Stevenson , of Lambeth Road , Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , visited Cleveland Police 's traffic unit at Cannon Park , Middlesbrough , to hand over his picture of the police car of the future . |
| 21 | He could see now that there was a driver in each of the police cars . |
| 22 | Cardiff watched as the three policemen on the cordon-barrier lifted the wooden pole and the last of the police cars slid past and vanished into the storm . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's in one of the police cars ! ’ |
| 24 | The Prophet sprinted from the alley exit scant seconds before the first of the police cars roared out of the fog and screeched to a halt at the dark gap he had just left . |
| 25 | So many lights ; the yellow lights of the arc-lamps that shone down on the river-bank ; the white lights from the flashes of the police photographers ; the blue lights of the police cars that lingered still around the scene . |
| 26 | As soon as he was free — she gave a glance of distaste towards the police car discreetly parked in the farthest corner of the courtyard — Monsieur Bonard would proceed with their lesson . |
| 27 | Wearing his very best clothes and shoes , he had played all alone in the pouring rain while she and a balding detective discussed important business behind the steamy windows of a police car . |
| 28 | As the other four offered their own inimitable advice , the police hustled the Celtic defender downstairs and out into the streets where he was thrown over the bonnet of a police car . |
| 29 | Omar said that just as the crowd was becoming angry with impatience in the hot sun a young woman of about twenty-five years of age was roughly pulled out of a police car . |
| 30 | The Indian kids would n't matter , but the Yuppie type might get half an hour in the back of a police car checking the pavements and the pub car parks for some sign of his attacker . |