Example sentences of "police [verb] them " in BNC.

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1 TWO escaped prisoners were back behind bars yesterday after police re-arrested them in an early morning swoop .
2 ‘ It was only when the police asked them to turn the noise down that any of us had any chance of sleep . ’
3 It 'll establish efficient links between North Oxfordshire 's farmers and the police helping them to be quick off the mark if anything dubious is noticed .
4 What the police expected them to do was not hinted at .
5 Three children , aged between four and seven , scream as uniformed East Berlin police drag them and their mother off and push them into a lorry as they stand outside the US embassy in East Berlin , hoping desperately to get inside .
6 These , together with the new independent Crown Prosecution Service and the introduction of tape recording of suspects ' statements , are intended to balance the increased powers given to the police to enable them to investigate crime more effectively .
7 ‘ How the fuck are they going to get the stuff up the Thames without the river police tumbling them ? ’
8 Plans for British police forces to test the batons were cancelled by the Home Secretary , Kenneth Clarke , after American police used them on Rodney King during the videotaped attack which sparked the Los Angeles riots .
9 Police charged them with importing 11 prescription only medicines but later withdrew the charges when the four appeared before the Otahuhu District Court .
10 Police charged them with importing 11 prescription only medicines but later withdrew the charges when the four appeared before the Otahuhu District Court .
11 During the strike , the police found them to be a useful device with which to restrict the freedom of movement of pickets .
12 Scottish police found them in a women 's refuge in Inverness but they disappeared again and may now be in London a city Mrs Ivory knows and likes .
13 Well as I say , the police stopped them the other morning and one of the lads had a chat with the driver and all this and he carried on .
14 Electrical engineer David Schoo , 45 and his 35-year-old wife Sharon were stunned as police put them in handcuffs when their plane landed at Chicago airport .
15 Police separated them .
16 Various studies have shown that the public evaluate the police in terms of the attitude the police show them when they are victims in need of police help ( for example , Jones 1983 ; Maguire 1982 ; Shapland 1982 ; Southgate and Ekblom 1984 ) .
17 Why do you think the police let them go ?
18 What happened in Liverpool when Liverpool were playing ho oh , Nottingham Forest , and what happened was is that there was extra fans coming in to the ground and the police let them in and then everyone just started to get squashed and all that .
19 It would have suited his purposes admirably well to have had the police arrest them for responding to his antagonism .
20 Broadly , and allowing for over-simplification of the two books , Mr Kee and Mr Mullin allege that the confessions were beaten out of them by the police interrogating them , and that the forensic tests were either doctored so as to appear positive , or were otherwise unreliable .
21 Penetrating no man 's land in a fracas which left three British U N peace keeping soldiers injured , before tear gas from the Greek police dispersed them .
22 After confiscating their musical instruments , the police allowed them to proceed and they went on to parade — much more quietly than they would have liked .
23 Police discovered them in a raid , after they were tipped off by a buyer who had seen this advert in the motoring magazine Exchange and Mart .
24 Yesterday a court agreed to police holding them a further 36 hours .
25 We talked of Partition and the how the old princess had thrown the last family heirlooms — a series of beautiful inlaid jade daggers down the haveli well , in case the police arrested them for possessing offensive weapons .
26 Police arrested them after the tragedy and held them for two days on suspicion of unlawful killing .
27 Police rang them as they headed north after a friend 's wedding in the Home Counties .
28 and er police rang them up Tuesday , cos er they found car at Great Alton , they went to pick it up , somebody had nicked it again
29 police rang them up this woman had rung him up , she 's got a farm at Great Alton and
30 Any queries about the machines being taken away had been answered with the half-truth that the police needed them for their own use .
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