"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 sergeant = sierżant (z wydziału dochodzeniowo-śledczego) detective sergeant
  • Particularly a detective inspector who's only been in post for five months?
  • A detective inspector then took £500 back 'as his drink for the boys'.
  • With them came the detective inspector who had been thoughtful enough to act on my information.
  • "And now we've got him back as acting detective inspector?"
  • "Taken on his promotion to detective inspector in October 1965."
  • I'll have a detective inspector over to you right away.
  • It was a frustrated detective inspector who turned his attention to the victims.
  • However, in this show the detective inspector is logical, reasonable and human.
  • I never thought I'd live to see the day when a detective inspector would look like this.
  • "You know, you and the detective inspector aren't looking for the same thing."
(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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