Example sentences of "[art] police because [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Southgate ( 1980 : 33 ) has shown how British police have diffiulties in dealing with domestic disputes , but if anything the situation in Northern Ireland is easier for the police because they have a clearer knowledge of their role : to be on hand to prevent serious crime . |
| 2 | Civilian and police press officers attached to RUC Headquarters , Belfast retailed various smear stories against Irwin , including a claim that he was bitter and vindictive against the police because they had failed to arrest a soldier who , it was alleged , three years earlier had raped his wife . |
| 3 | He did n't want to get on worse terms with his mother , from whom he hoped to get a loan for his holiday in Greece , nor did he want the kind of thing that might have happened , his mother phoning hospitals or getting the police because they could have had an accident in Goblander . |
| 4 | And Manningham dare not call the police because they convinced him his every move was being monitored . |
| 5 | But the company boss said : ‘ It does n't do any good telling the police because they just ca n't cope any more . |
| 6 | I prefer to think things through and find a logical reason for them , and reason tells me that you 're hiding what information you have from the police because you 're afraid that it will ruin your scoop . |
| 7 | I could n't ‘ phone the police because I did n't know where to sent them . |
| 8 | and we were gon na get the police to ge w well i it just said the , the short name and we thought it was a boy that had written and if it had 've been we were gon na get the police because she 's under age you see . |
| 9 | Er then he , he , I sent for the police because he walked out the door and he , he threatened to kill himself . |
| 10 | He says he 's also sueing the police because he 's bitter about his treatment during the murder investigation . |
| 11 | Well round near us they terrorized an eighty three year old lady er near us and er it was a , I met the man next door and his wife and they were the ones that got the police because he said they 'd got her furniture out on the pavement to with a doodah up there . |
| 12 | She added : ‘ At the time I did n't report it to the police because it would have been my word against a doctor 's . |