Example sentences of "[adv] the police [verb] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily the police have spared me the ordeal of telling Proby , and also kept my bones intact . |
| 2 | ‘ I had never heard of this before , and you can imagine the complaints from customers , we could only tell them once the police had told us . |
| 3 | ‘ Why could n't the police have helped you ? ’ |
| 4 | Maybe the police has made me this way , but do you not see that if you 're going to come in here asking me questions about my family , if you 're going to want to know all these things , I 've got to be able to trust you ? |
| 5 | Presumably she bolted the door after her for that was how the police had found it in the morning . |