"police" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Eventually, Mr. DeGrace lived on the street, bartering for crack by holding the drugs so the dealer could avoid arrest if the police swooped in.
- The fragments of conversation the men picked up, sitting in a car nearby, before the police swooped down, were bracingly banal.
- Raiding police had swooped in and carried out their prey; all traces of that episode had passed.
- The South African Defence Force and police swooped on the station.
- Ms. Cotton now wonders if they were set up, if the truck was left as bait for the protesters - because twice that night, the police swooped down and surprised them.
- On television, Mayor Ma Ying-jeou of Taipei ordered everyone not at home when the police swooped in to come back, but some fled.
- Armed police swooped on a flat in Walford Road, Stoke Newington, east London, after a tip-off.
- But when they came back for $60,000 more on Wednesday, the police swooped in and arrested them.
- The police swooped, so the story went, as the gang headed for the home of a 77-year-old retiree and his wife - the next victims.
- The men, aged 22 and 35, were arrested after police swooped at addresses at Kidderminster and Stourport-on-Severn.
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