Example sentences of "the police because " in BNC.
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| 1 | We end , after a protracted flashback , with Casaubon unable to go to the police because nobody would believe his story . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Whatever attitudes Protestants in Easton might have towards the police because of Northern Ireland 's social and political divisions , these are undercut by the police 's pursuit of crime and its perpetrators , so that some Protestant in Easton encounter the police in situations which encourage negative views as a result of the ordinary criminal activity they engage in . |
| 4 | A recent signing tour of record shops was cancelled by the police because of the volume of fans that was bound to turn up . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Do n't underestimate the police because of what you read in the upmarket papers . ’ |
| 9 | And Manningham dare not call the police because they convinced him his every move was being monitored . |
| 10 | The nutter , in contrast , is constantly being caught by the police because part of being ‘ nutty ’ is absence of any real form of self-preservation . |
| 11 | Road traffic had long been a matter for the police because of the very great concern over road accidents . |
| 12 | Er then he , he , I sent for the police because he walked out the door and he , he threatened to kill himself . |
| 13 | The implications for my daughter 's safety and security , and and mine and the rest of my family 's , because there have been a number of occasions over the years when I 've had to turn to the police because of my anxiety about that when there 's been a lot of attention from the media and when the press have published our address and so on erm and we 've had I 've had specific death threats particularly against my daughter on one occasion . |
| 14 | I could n't ‘ phone the police because I did n't know where to sent them . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He says he 's also sueing the police because he 's bitter about his treatment during the murder investigation . |
| 17 | But the company boss said : ‘ It does n't do any good telling the police because they just ca n't cope any more . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |