"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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 10
(1) story, tale, yarn
Kolokacji: 3
1. detective work = dochodzenie, śledztwo detective work
2. detective series = serial kryminalny detective series
3. detective magazine = magazyn oficera śledczego detective magazine
4. detective movie = film oficera śledczego detective movie
5. detective film = film kryminalny detective film
6. detective show = widowisko oficera śledczego detective show
7. detective business = oficer śledczy biznes detective business
  • You're in the detective business, and you've been around a lot and seen lots of people.
  • "The private detective business is slow this summer," he said.
  • But he still took a professional interest in the detective business.
  • You know, I think you're getting the hang of this detective business.
  • I'm fed up with the detective business, and I'd like to quit.
  • "Where'd you go to school, that sort of thing, and how you got into the detective business."
  • Then you've come up with what we in the detective business like to call a genuine lead.
  • But as you pointed out to me only this afternoon, how hard could the detective business be?
  • If being cool was the first rule of the detective business, don't panic had to be the second.
  • This detective business of waiting about is too much for my French impatience.
(7) Conan, Goren, Benson
Kolokacji: 3
(9) Samuel
Kolokacji: 2
(10) thriller, mystery
Kolokacji: 2
detective + verbo
Kolokacji: 98
detective investigates • detective says • detective finds • detective goes • detective working • ...
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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