Example sentences of "they be [noun] officers " in BNC.
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| 1 | I doubted not that they were law officers , but did not linger for a second look , being already at the casement windows into the side garden . |
| 2 | The court heard that the Scotts and Anderson approached the two plain clothes constables and asked them if they were RUC officers . |
| 3 | Three journalists who went to investigate the shooting were abducted at gun point by people who said they were police officers . |
| 4 | Because if we do n't we then run the risk of being injured ourselves erm somebody alleging that they did n't realise they were police officers and therefore shot at us because they thought we were invading their territory or something . |
| 5 | When they formed the Army Education Corp , during the war , they er , they wore uniform , most of them were warrant officers , and soldiers but in uniform you could come out I mean , they been ordinary soldiers , but they 'd been put put on a charge every time the saw them , you know . |