Example sentences of "police have [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I suppose the police have been through the place already . |
| 2 | Neighbour Eleanor Kane said : ‘ I did n't know the young woman but the police have been to the flat a few times . ’ |
| 3 | With the public appropriation of certain categories of property , however , the police have been on more certain ground , for the status attributed to the ‘ capture of the thief ’ has remained fairly constant , at least since the police were created as a public body . |
| 4 | They have complained that traffic has been going down the one-in-three gradient Bay Bank into the old part of the village which is prevented when police have been on duty in the past . |
| 5 | Police have been among the main targets of Muslim extremists seeking to turn Egypt into an Islamic theocracy and more than 200 people have died in the violence over the past 20 months . |
| 6 | THE police have been in the front line of Thatcherism . |
| 7 | But the communists in Russia were er th all this er Gulag Arli Archipelago and secret police have been in existence in Russia for hundreds of years before the com er communists came in . |