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单词 to be known to the police
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to be known to the police
P26. to be known to the police: (of a person) to have a criminal record; to be considered a suspicious character by the police.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > break the law [verb (transitive)] > mark as criminal or suspect
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1797 Times 27 Jan. 3/4 He has a brother and a sister..who daily parade the metropolis, committing depredations, who are known to the Police Officers.]
1804 Times 1 May 3/2 This agent, spy, and emigrant, and [sic] who has received his pardon, was already known to the Police.
1828 T. B. W. Dudley Tocsin 36 [He] appears to me to be rather too delicate of the liberty of the subject, as regards suspicious characters, or those known to the police.
1857 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 179/1 The definite number of thousands of convicted thieves at large,..all ‘known to the police’, and yet living in perfect security under the wing and eyes of the law.
1924 A. Christie Poirot Investigates ix. 255 Billy Kellett?.. He's known to the police!
1938 F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad ix. 112 A long communication telling us that Mrs. Cousins was not ‘known to the police’.
2000 Sunday Times 23 July (Mag. section) 53/2 Most have not a blot on their character, but a good few are antisocially inclined (some ex-attendees of the local behaviour adjustment unit) and are frequently well known to the police.
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