"detective" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The detectives threw themselves upon the bellowing pair and helped to flatten them.
- Diane is importuning Joe to assign detectives to help her on a particularly vicious case.
- After tuning up their own buildings, the best detectives can help local libraries, police stations and government offices start saving.
- The detective has recently helped arrange exchanges of value to both New York and Israel.
- Within minutes, the three detectives were helping the girls carry overnight bags up the emergency stairs.
- The story begins when a private detective helps a prostitute being assaulted, and notices that she is wearing a distinctive ring.
- Orchard's confession, which the detective helped him write, handily confirmed this theory.
- The invading detectives had not helped him one iota; on the contrary, they had made his task more difficult.
- The two detectives couldn't help; they were standing with guns all broken for reloading.
- Further muddying the issue, some media organizations, particularly television, hire private detectives to help with research.
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