The police took the burglars by surprise.

警方出其不意地逮捕了入室窃贼。

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The police took a long time to interrogate the offenders fully.

警察花了很长时间对人犯进行了详细的审问。

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The police took him in for attempted murder.

警方因他杀人未遂而将其拘留。

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So did the local police. The next day more than sixty black students took every seat at the lunch counter.

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We're exhausting all possibilities. And then choosing the winner. Well, that's what the slow thief tried. Unfortunately it took so long that before he finished the owner returned home, called the police and the thief ended up in jail.

我们穷举了所有可能方案,然后选择最优方案,这就是动作慢的贼的方案,不幸的是它在失主回家之前，要花上了太长的时间。

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He took some very drastic actions of firing the whole police force and recreating it from scratch.

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When he did not go away despite warnings, the police took him in to custody.

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The police took her to the police station, where she was kept for three hours before being allowed to call Romanyuk.

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The police took a statement, but wrote to him after two months saying that they had lost the documentation, the cyclist said.

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