"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 • ...
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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 14
(1) private, undercover, black
Kolokacji: 3
(3) retired, off-duty
Kolokacji: 2
(5) great, good, famous, best
Kolokacji: 4
(6) amateur, professional
Kolokacji: 2
(7) female, fellow, male
Kolokacji: 3
(8) senior, British, junior
Kolokacji: 3
(10) local, medical
Kolokacji: 2
(11) hard-boiled, tough
Kolokacji: 2
(12) Belgian, French, American
Kolokacji: 3
1. French detective = Francuski oficer śledczy French detective
  • A senior French detective is on his way to question the man, a spokesman said.
  • The fate of the French detective is not known.
  • Instead, he stared at the French detective, and then burst out laughing.
  • They're all just dead French detectives, right?
  • It is named after a nineteenth-century French detective.
  • What was the one I read years ago where the main character was a French Canadian detective who had an aneurism?
  • I knew he was a famous French fictional detective, but that was all.
  • If I can put all that down, and this town down, I thought, readers will feel themselves living in the world of the French detective.
  • In a minute and a half the French detective was joined on the opposite pavement by an inspector and a man in plain clothes.
  • Flora insists that Poirot is called in to investigate and little time passes before the French detective arrives.
2. Belgian detective = Belgijski oficer śledczy Belgian detective
3. American detective = Amerykański oficer śledczy American detective
(13) Savage, cynical, dogged
Kolokacji: 3
(14) forensic, literary
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + detective
Kolokacji: 6
to detectives • of detectives • with detectives • for detectives • from detectives • ...

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