"detective" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Because of the format's nature, the detectives rarely encounter a simple murder where the murderer does little to hide his or her guilt (actually very common).
- He is the one who usually solves or puts the pieces together in the rare crimes the detectives encounter.
- The first man whom the detective encountered was Clyde Burke.
- She had always valued her secretary's comments, but she had never expected that she would make such a moral mountain out of the sort of little problem that detectives encountered every day.
- An investigator said detectives encountered the man, who lives near the park, early in the case.
- The detective encountered the man, Michael Robinson, in front of 1309 Clinton Avenue just after midnight yesterday.
- Police, from the first, had called Cooratal in for questioning, but, like Philip DeLieto, detectives had encountered witnesses who placed him at his workstation in the luncheonette.
- During their investigations the detectives often encounter police officers Vonda Wysocki (Jarek's niece) and Vonda's partner Isaac Joiner.
- The detective had encountered The Shadow in the past.
- The detective invariably encountered a problem when he dealt with the police commissioner.
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