noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sleeping policeman
undercover policeman/cop/agent etc
▪
undercover detectives
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
▪
The white inspector comes in with an announcement to make, and the Black policeman starts to leave on an assignment.
▪
We endeavoured to enquire from a black policeman .
▪
In my mind, the first black policeman on a previously all-white force was probably a greater hero.
▪
Two pairs of black policemen in starched khaki uniforms were there to discourage the pickpockets if possible, arrest them if necessary.
▪
My previous experiences had made me wonder if white policemen didn't get a kick out of black policemen investigating black citizens.
▪
Mxenge's assassins were four black policemen from Coetzee's team.
local
▪
The name originated from the days when this house belonged to the local policeman .
▪
Koju had had the presence of mind to bribe a local policeman into accompanying us.
▪
Afterwards the boy's father decided to consult the local policeman to ask his views about the affair.
▪
The neighbourhood was appalled at the atrocities perpetrated on two popular local policemen .
▪
The unrest was sparked off by the arrest of a local policeman on charges of corruption.
▪
The winner had to be drawn in a raffle, picked out by the local policeman .
▪
At the very least, he should have had a local policeman with him.
military
▪
They were tough-looking Feldgendarmen, military policemen , with big brass plaques on their chests.
▪
They traced the serial numbers and found he had probably killed a military policeman .
▪
His office in the heart of Freetown is guarded by a military policeman .
▪
By 1: 00 A. M. Monday, it was clear to military policemen that the riot was of major proportion.
▪
As I put the note in my pocket the door swung open and two military policemen came into the bar.
ordinary
▪
The duties of the ordinary policeman , who was known as a constable, were arduous, at least in Colombo.
secret
▪
Half of them are spies and secret policemen .
uniformed
▪
A uniformed policeman stood under a lamp, his hands clasped behind his back.
▪
She was followed out on to the patio by a fresh-faced, uniformed policeman .
▪
Opening the front door of the flat, she came face to face with an out-of-breath uniformed policeman .
▪
He had been too engrossed in the anguish of his own thoughts to notice the approach of the two uniformed policemen .
▪
A uniformed policeman gave me detailed directions and along with several others I made my way to Court No. 4.
▪
Several more uniformed policemen came in.
▪
He knew that Buddie hated all detectives and uniformed policemen .
▪
The door was bolted but Wycliffe banged on it and was admitted by a uniformed policeman .
white
▪
My previous experiences had made me wonder if white policemen didn't get a kick out of black policemen investigating black citizens.
▪
On the way to town, the soldiers encountered a group of white policemen and shot two of them.
▪
A young white policeman appears from his office reluctantly.
young
▪
Little did the young policeman know that he was not to see either of his colleagues alive again.
▪
Two handsome young policemen were sitting on a slat bench smoking cigarettes.
▪
The younger policeman noticed that his pyjamas were hardly creased.
▪
A young policeman in a leather jacket painfully, letter by letter, typed my losses on an ancient machine.
▪
This was particularly noticeable among the younger policemen , for whom this imagery seems to be a defining characteristic of their work.
▪
A young white policeman appears from his office reluctantly.
▪
If there was any trouble where a young policeman was concerned, she would get going with a whistle and summon assistance.
■ VERB
ask
▪
He asked a policeman who owed him a favour that he wanted no-one to know about.
▪
That's what they told us to do at school - ask a policeman if we're lost.
▪
Kelly asked the policeman what had happened.
▪
He asked the first policeman he saw the way to London University and was pointed in the direction of the Strand.
kill
▪
Rebels hiding in jungle outside the village opened fire, killing one policeman .
▪
They traced the serial numbers and found he had probably killed a military policeman .
▪
Five days later Vernage was to achieve his gruesome ambition to kill a policeman .
▪
Fifteen of the blacks, and none of the whites, were killed by policemen .
▪
Bomb attacks between April 3 and April 25 killed an estimated 29 policemen and 33 civilians, wounding 145 others.
▪
A week later a mob set fire to a town hall in Chauri Chaura in the United Provinces, killing 22 policemen .
shoot
▪
He says Hanger had said he wanted to shoot a policeman and he wasn't going to take risks with his men.
▪
The court heard Charles McGhee was convicted of murder after shooting an off-duty policeman during an armed robbery.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
A policeman was slightly injured when he was struck by falling stones in the Umbrian town of Sellano.
▪
I expect to be questioned and not believed about winking at the man, but the policeman does not seem interested.
▪
Not very far away there was also a policeman .
▪
The policeman carried on walking, following the figure.
▪
The motorist was the kind the policeman liked.
▪
Thirty policemen were massacred in Rukum last week when the rebels launched a direct assault on their heavily fortified headquarters.
▪
Two policemen forcibly took her arms from around her son, and led him out to the car to join his sister.