"detective" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

detective sustantivo

sustantivo + detective
Kolokacji: 31
police detective • homicide detective • narcotics detective • Manhattan detective • lead detective • ...
detective + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 41
detective story • detective work • detective novel • detective agency • detective fiction • detective sergeant • ...
detective + verbo
Kolokacji: 98
detective investigates • detective says • detective finds • detective goes • detective working • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 15
(5) work, solve, bring, handle
Kolokacji: 4
(8) search, raid, scour
Kolokacji: 3
(9) believe, wait, think
Kolokacji: 3
1. detective follows = oficer śledczy następuje detective follows
2. detective pursues = oficer śledczy ściga detective pursues
3. detective tracks = ślady oficera śledczego detective tracks
4. detective traces = ślady oficera śledczego detective traces
5. detective chases = pościgi oficera śledczego detective chases
  • He was on his way to double around and cut off the flight of the man whom Cardona and the detectives had chased.
  • "A lone detective chased three hardened criminals" it wrote another time.
  • The two detectives assigned to the case chased more promising leads, law enforcement officials said.
  • The detectives hopped into the man's vehicle and chased him, losing him in traffic.
  • So the Goodies and the detectives chase the mimes on wheelchairs.
  • Rather than the usual setup of rebels running from oppression, the movie portrays the detectives chasing them as clever jokers.
  • By the time the detectives had chased the fleeing car past the next corner, The Shadow was on his way in the opposite direction.
  • Outside, two detectives chase a mysterious young woman (Miller), who eludes them by slipping unnoticed into Simon's house and hiding in a closet.
  • A detective chased him through a sewer.
  • The werewolf ends up at a power station, where the young male detective chases him up the metalwork.
(13) use, spend, help
Kolokacji: 3
(14) want, hope
Kolokacji: 2
(15) stare, listen, uncover
Kolokacji: 3
verbo + detective
Kolokacji: 13
tell detectives • play detective • detective assigned • hire a detective • detective called • ...
adjetivo + detective
Kolokacji: 42
private detective • undercover detective • fictional detective • retired detective • young detective • ...
preposición + detective
Kolokacji: 6
to detectives • of detectives • with detectives • for detectives • from detectives • ...

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