"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
  • A couple, Roger and Trish Burkle, enter the hotel searching for assistance in finding their lost daughter, Fred, whom another private detective traced to Angel Investigations.
  • All three storylines merge when the detectives trace the access card, not to the mayor's office, but to Richmond's main office.
  • All three victims escaped unharmed, after detectives traced several of the telephone calls, arrested the woman making the ransom demands and learned where the hostages were being held.
  • The detectives quickly traced the phone number to Mr. McKenzie's stepmother, who rented an apartment a block from the store.
  • A detective, working overtime, had painstakingly traced the keystone charm in the Connecticut case back to a list of lost property from my murder.
  • But the detectives traced Checker up a swampy little backwater bay off the New River.
  • Separately, detectives traced the gun used in the killing, a .25-caliber semiautomatic, following a trail that led them through Maine, Texas and the Bronx.
  • The private detective had finally traced me to Kansas City the day before.
  • The detective traced the footprints from the scene of the crime to the butler's bedroom.
  • Medical detectives traced the source of the infection to human cadaver pituitaries that had been ground up to extract the human growth hormone.
5. detective chases = pościgi oficera śledczego detective chases
(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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