"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
2. detective waits = oficer śledczy czeka detective waits
3. detective thinks = oficer śledczy myśli detective thinks
  • The detective thinks she is the killer of six people.
  • The detective had X under control again, or thought he did.
  • As he sat down to dinner at a table just inside the dining-room door, the detective was thinking hard.
  • Both detectives were thinking she'd come to see her spiritual director on the day before she was killed.
  • The detective thought the man appeared suspicious and followed him.
  • The detectives think he must have had a key that opened the little side door.
  • The detectives think a third person might have been at the scene.
  • Both detectives thought he could have passed for much younger than that, even a middle school student.
  • The private detective was thinking about something quite different.
  • I had no idea what the detective was thinking as she regarded me.
(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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