Example sentences of "the police [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd strangled two children with his bare hands , then called the police to give himself up . |
| 2 | When Dustin heard news of the ensuing blaze , he rushed back to the scene , and was able to push through the gaping crowds to pull three of his modern paintings and a Tiffany lampshade from the smoke-filled Federal-style building , before the police prevented him from re-entering the house . |
| 3 | Can the police tell us ? ’ |
| 4 | Baroness Susan De Stempel , who 's now been released , claims the police forced her to admit she stole a fortune from her senile aunt . |
| 5 | The idea of Wheeler being grilled by the police cheered her enormously . |
| 6 | Had the police done nothing , farmers might have taken the law into their own hands . |
| 7 | No it 's cause it 's it 's it 's only if the police come they 'll they 'll move you on . |
| 8 | The police knew we were there . |
| 9 | Naturally such a prolonged absence was a little worrying , especially in view of , well , the circumstances ; and in fact an anxious Ashenden had rung Kidlington a few minutes previously , just in case the police knew anything . |
| 10 | But we knew the police and the police knew us . |
| 11 | He said , it 's happened before and he advised her to go to the police and er so he , he said er when and the police told her when you come back we 'll have all this typed out , your statement but we 'll need you to sign so tell the coach driver to stay at , stop at the police station for you to sign it and I , I said to her , how , how did you manage to stop that boy ? |
| 12 | ‘ The police told me you were here . |
| 13 | ‘ When the police told me I just cried . |
| 14 | ‘ The police told me to turn in the opposite direction . |
| 15 | ‘ When the police told me everything I had been doing over the last month it totally freaked me out . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ A young girl got attacked last week , my mate in the police told me . |
| 17 | The police told him of the allegations from three children , but were , in his words , ‘ fairly vague ’ about the questioning . |
| 18 | As to Ed Riverton , all we know is what the police told us . |
| 19 | ‘ But the police told us there was nothing worth reporting , ’ said the voice impatiently . |
| 20 | The police advised her to take out a summons against her neighbours . |
| 21 | When one of the police asked him to quieten the party down a bit , Willis hit him in the mouth and screamed , ‘ Get the fuck off my property ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It was only when the police asked them to turn the noise down that any of us had any chance of sleep . ’ |
| 23 | The police asked what was happening and Simon looked up , completely deadpan and pointed down the road and said : ‘ Football hooligans . |
| 24 | ‘ The police asked me that , too , and honestly , I just ca n't remember . |
| 25 | The police asked me that as well . |
| 26 | And if such a classificatory system is a major feature of the way the police control their fellow citizens , then it seems essential it should be identified , assessed , and described . |
| 27 | A story appeared in the papers in the usual tabloid style which said that Linford had a secret criminal past and that the police viewed him as a dangerous , vicious character . |
| 28 | Some correspondent will probably now write to tell me that Brunson is bravely suffering from some life-threatening condition , but he delivered his questions between swallows with the aplomb of Peter Lorre squealing to Humphrey Bogart as the police drag him off to certain death in Casablanca . |
| 29 | Three gypsies were arrested but the police admit they may have to be released without charge , because no one who was injured is prepared to make a complaint . |
| 30 | The police admit there 's little shopkeepers can do to protect their property from a mechanical digger . |