Sentence examples for been a cop from inspiring English sources
"He's been a cop for 15 years.
He had been a cop for twenty-two years.
Johnson had once been a cop — all the best drivers had once been cops.
He tells his partner, "I've been a cop in Detroit so long — when I started, half the suspects was white".
A field-training officer named Mike McCarthy, who had been a cop for ten years, displayed no such discomfort.
"I've been a cop for the N.Y.P.D. for 20 years and a product of women's college sports.
A grand jury would have been a cop-out".
But that would have been a cop-out, failing to fulfill the court's responsibility for finality.
But I felt a purchased dessert would have been a cop-out (unless I had carted it home from Paris).
It would have been a cop-out if Obama had appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live and not gone through the humbling experience of reading out mean tweets like the other guests.
If the final film doesn't culminate in a 28-minute shot of her lying spread-eagled on the marital bed tearfully rubbing the leathery, disintegrating corpse of a 200-year-old bat against her marital sector, the entire saga has been a cop-out and a lie.
