"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
  • Years ago in Brooklyn, a suspect told detectives he wanted to talk to a lawyer.
  • He told detectives that he had just found the gun in the street.
  • The children told detectives they had to eat in the basement, away from the rest of the family.
  • She told detectives that the baby had been stillborn weeks earlier, officials said.
  • For two years, his family told detectives, he has been unable to find an affordable place to live.
  • He drank a lot that night, she later told private detectives.
  • But he suggested that they were unable to tell detectives if the boy could swim.
  • The woman told detectives that she had shaken her son because he would not stop crying, according to the police.
  • 'We keep a change of clothes up there,' Jack had told detectives.
  • His wife told detectives that she had not seen him since Thursday.
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
(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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