noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a detective story
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Most detective stories are about a murder.
detective/romantic/historical etc novel
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a newly published science fiction novel
private detective
store detective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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Should you wish advice from the world's greatest detective you may enquire for me at the Rose and Crown.
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It was plain that the two great detectives were discomfited by each other's presence.
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The Mystery of Morse ... Investigating the great detective .
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It took no great detective work to work out where he was, however.
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The two great detectives prowled up and down the village street dogged by the two official policemen.
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This person claims to be a great detective and yet he has detected nothing, nothing at all.
private
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Private eye bin bagged A PRIVATE detective was yesterday fined £150 for stealing a national newspaper executive's rubbish.
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Kinsey Millhone, leading private detective of Santa Teresa, California.
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Edward is a private detective hired by an antiques dealer who asked Edward to list all of the valuables in the house.
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Michael is a private detective and an aspiring writer.
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In addition, data could be passed to the police, private detectives or computer database holders.
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Perhaps there had once been a private detective in New York with that name.
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She wondered if she should hire a private detective to find out who the girl was.
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Robert Crais broke into mystery writing not by being a cop, a lawyer or a private detective .
senior
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After Courtney's trial a senior detective revealed that Courtney had probably abused 100 other women.
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Charlie - that's not his real name - was a policeman, a very senior detective .
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The committee is too important to have the senior police detective interest represented on a part-time basis.
young
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He was a very intelligent and perceptive young detective .
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Meryl followed the young detective constable to the library door with a sick feeling in her stomach.
■ NOUN
constable
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The victim, a detective constable , tried to arrest the accused.
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The detective constable who was supposed to be guarding him was out of the ward at the time chatting up some nurses.
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She harried the detective constable who was checking Christine Mills' alibis.
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Meryl followed the young detective constable to the library door with a sick feeling in her stomach.
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The door of the interview room swung open and a detective constable swaggered in.
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Uniformed men and Wycliffe's detective constables were questioning the very few people who actually lived in the street.
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A detective constable was working away in a corner.
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The three of them, with four detective constables , would set the ball rolling.
fiction
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But it has been in existence for almost as long as there has been detective fiction .
homicide
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So is Joe Mantegna, as the homicide detective assigned to the case, telling her to let the law handle it.
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The victim was taken to Highland Hospital, where he died about an hour later. Homicide detectives are investigating the case.
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We hung out with a homicide detective , and we tried to make it realistic.
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Malcolm Ainslie is a disillusioned Catholic priest turned unfaithful husband and crack Miami homicide detective .
inspector
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By 1965 things had eased, but my detective inspector still railed against my three-quarter length corduroy car-coat with its red lining.
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It was with a detective inspector called Eddy Russell.
novel
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One last observation about the detective novel .
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It was limited, all gleaned from detective novels .
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The same is true for the opening of the detective novel in Task 1.
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How does it differ from the detective novel ?
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The murder helped prove a new science and became the plot in a detective novel .
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But otherwise it had all the ingredients of the detective novel , down to a theme, the passion for justice.
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Like the detective novel , the romance abides by a hermeneutic code, in which the outcome is always assured.
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But characters will be much more present, be seen in much greater, convoluted depth even than in the detective novel .
sergeant
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He was asked to wait and then shown into a room where a detective sergeant prepared to take a statement from him.
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Lucky the geezer didn't know what a detective sergeant gets paid or he might have got suspicious.
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Saw police detective sergeant who was very understanding.
squad
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His father, David Ashworth, is wanted for questioning by murder squad detectives but yesterday he was still missing.
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David Ashworth was being brought back to Merseyside for interview after inquiries led murder squad detectives to Newcastle-on-Tyne.
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Bomb squad detectives were called when initial reports suggested animal rights campaigners were responsible.
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Murder squad detectives can hold and question the boys until 7am tomorrow.
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Outside London a murder squad detective might have one or two.
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Murder squad detectives , led by Detective Superintendent Stan Fletcher, sealed off the area while forensic tests were carried out.
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Murder squad detectives have warned that Mr Ashworth should not be approached.
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Murder squad detectives were questioning four men yesterday.
store
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If I were a store detective , I'd never have let me out of there without a body search.
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The highest award was £307,781 to a computer expert who injured his back helping a store detective stop a suspected shoplifter.
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It's because of racism. Store detectives will watch a Black person more than a white person.
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But one store detective isn't totally satisfied.
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Later that day, a search of the vehicle confirms the store detectives suspicions.
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Ian Walker, prosecuting, said a store detective spotted Melia going into a cubicle to try the jeans on.
story
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It was the feeling she had had as a child when she frightened herself with a detective story .
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Their approach is informal and Physics of Stellar Evolution and Cosmology reads like a scientific detective story .
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Elizabeth did not like detective stories , because some one was usually hanged at the end of them.
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That the blueprint detective story at its most basic is not a story.
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Your detective of the detective story , of course, went about seeking information.
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The 1930s were the era of the detective story , and it had reached its maximum popularity with Edgar Wallace.
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That may sound silly, but readers of blueprint detective stories want pure detection.
work
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In fact tying a pollution to its source can be a tricky piece of detective work .
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The arrival of numerical grades added new twists to detective work .
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Then we went up to my office to do some serious detective work .
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Finding the missing parts has been a lucky blending of good fortune and good detective work .
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Much slow and painstaking geological detective work is needed to make correlations such as these, but the results can be very valuable.
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Then he could do his own bit of private detective work .
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At the same time, the medical detective work threw up new uncertainties.
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It took no great detective work to work out where he was, however.
■ VERB
call
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The Classical Blueprint Let's start with the classical detective story, sometimes called the old-fashioned detective story.
hire
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She wondered if she should hire a private detective to find out who the girl was.
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He wondered if Virginia Stillman had hired another detective after he failed to get in touch with her.
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You hired detectives to find me?
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The police made a few routine inquiries, came up with nothing, and then suggested that she hire a private detective .
investigate
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You didn't mention that kind of thing to a detective investigating the death of a fellow club-member's wife.
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Now, detectives are investigating the possibility that a fourth woman may have been slain by the retired Army sergeant.
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Almost a hundred people telephoned offering help to detectives investigating the stabbing of Richard Miles.
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Homicide detectives are investigating the case.
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Two other people, a man and a woman, have already been arrested by detectives investigating the case.
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But detectives investigating her death believe she invented the story just to get the gun to take her own life.
play
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Dolezal decides to play detective in a one man undercover operation, wandering naively into deathtrap after deathtrap.
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The last star this hot played a pet detective .
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But there's nothing wrong with playing games to ease your concern, whether it's playing detective or playing rugby.
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He plays New York detective David Mitchell, a hero with 30 arrests to his credit but an aversion to killing.
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Wherever she had gone, wherever she was hiding, he would have to play detective and find her.
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A murder, and he wasn't even allowed to play detective .
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You'd think they'd be intrigued at a chance to play detectives .
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At the Tate Gallery, five to 13 year olds are encouraged to play detective to find the hidden details in paintings.
question
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His father, David Ashworth, is wanted for questioning by murder squad detectives but yesterday he was still missing.
tell
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In an interview, Christopher Gore told detectives what happened next.
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The boy later told detectives he meant only to scare her.
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Yesterday a Durham Police spokesman said the consultant in charge of Pringle had told detectives he is to undergo further surgery next month.
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She added that he had later asked her to tell detectives that he had been at home all Saturday night.
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I told detectives that he had a pilot's licence and could fly himself out of the country.
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Sad Joanna told detectives she dreaded the thought of eating and drinking at parties over the holiday period.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Detectives made a TV appeal for anyone with any information about the crime to contact them.
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a private detective
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Anyone with information is being asked to call Detective Mike Place.
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I'm a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. Do you mind if I ask you a few questions?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Form is one of the hidden assets of the detective story.
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Furthermore, the detectives are no longer in that basic symbol of police identity - the uniform.
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He was a very intelligent and perceptive young detective .
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Let me make sure I understand you, officer-mister detective .
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The customers say you'd have to be a detective to make sense of it.
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The lock snapped and the detective levered up the bottom section.
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Unless she and Mr Greenleaf decided to stay to see what the detective was going to do with him.