"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 • ...
(1) tell, call, name, make
Kolokacji: 4
1. tell detectives = powiedz oficerom śledczym tell detectives
2. detective called = oficer śledczy zadzwonił detective called
3. detective named = oficer śledczy nazwał detective named
4. make a detective = marki oficer śledczy make a detective
  • Would I make a good detective, do you think?
  • I don't think you have to be obsessed to make a good detective.
  • She only lacked experience, I thought, to make a really good detective.
  • To make a great detective she had to learn to loosen up, to get people to talk freely and too much.
  • I said to her, "You're going to make a fine detective."
  • You might have made a good detective if your-illness-hadn't prevented your promotion.
  • Rebus had just shrugged and told her she'd make a good detective.
  • He decided that the millionaire would have made a good detective.
  • I don't think you would have made a very good detective.
  • He had to admit it, she'd have made a good detective.
(3) hire, lead, send, turn
Kolokacji: 4
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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