1.   However trivial you think your observation is, pick up the phone and tell the police.

2.   I think we should tell the police.

3.   Later he lay in bed beside Anne, trying to think of a satisfactory yet thoroughly non-committal story to tell the police.

4.   Mr Utterson knows that the true story will not be believed, so he invents a story to tell the police.

5.   The diplomat told police he believed that his brakes failed.

6.   The girl, who still attends high school in Sitka, told police Meekins took off her clothes.

7.   The silly bitch went and told the police.

8.   Victims of domestic violence are often reluctant to tell the police.