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Prevot and had
Prevot had briefed the two new men that afternoon.
`` We just sit quiet and wait '', Prevot had said.
Because they were new men and to be sure that they didn't get lost, Prevot had placed Warren and White in the center of the patrol as it filed out.
`` It's safe '', Prevot had said, `` and it provides cover for our noise ''.

Prevot and which
There were ten men on the patrol which Sergeant Prevot led out that next night.

Prevot and .
Prevot came up ``.
Warren handed him the metal box and Prevot quietly disappeared down the line.
Over his shoulder he could see Prevot with the machine gun crew.
Hastily the cardinals delivered them to the Prevot of Paris, and retired to deliberate on this unexpected contingency, but they were saved all trouble.
When such was done through the Order in Council of 1675, the Seigneur of Sark instated a jurisdiction composed of a Seneschal, Greffier and Prevot.
– Paris-Brive, Prevot – F. Boudreaux XII, 3 201.
Hastily the cardinals delivered them to the Prevot of Paris, and retired to deliberate on this unexpected contingency, but they were saved all trouble.
Best Off is a French aircraft manufacturer founded in Toulouse by Philippe Prevot to market his Sky Ranger ultralight.
The best one was written for France Soir by Monique Prevot.

had and said
She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;
His wife had said to him: `` Nellie is in love with Clayton Roy.
`` You're Gavin's son '', Joe Purvis had said.
She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.
Six hundred and forty acres, the old man back in St. Louis had said ; ;
I had always, I said, hankered after working hard with my hands.
`` It's Curtiss '', he said, naming the man Rankin had hit.
Even as he said it, Greg knew they had found the enemy.
An Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said ' Aw right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh didn uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t'gethuh f'ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doan think thet's nahce at all, d'you ''??
Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.
`` Dear girl '', Walter had finally said, `` he writes me that he is sleeping in the English Gardens ''.
Mary Jane had smilingly said.
There had been classroom guffaws which quickly subsided as Professor Griggs said dryly: `` I see your point, Pauson.
The pretty little twittering WACS said he had the look of eagles -- and Penny, hating the cliche, had to admit that in this case it applied.
`` Hi there, Schaffner '', he had said.
Waddell had heard that he had been a commando in Rommel's Afrika Corps, and he said to himself: I'd hate to run into him in the desert on a dark night.
Aloud he had said, making conversation:
`` Yes '', Herr Schaffner had said.
`` Thank you '', the German had said courteously.
His superiors had said that all marines were depraved.
He could think of nothing else save his mental image of her nude figure and what Charles had said that morning about Margaret Rider.
Occasionally he would look across the aisle at Margaret, fourteen and demure in a fresh green organdy dress, sitting in the sixth-grade row, and he could hardly believe she would do what Charles had said she did.
At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.

had and searchlights
By 11 PM, it appeared that the Russians had vanished, but they revealed their positions to their pursuers by turning on their searchlights — ironically, the searchlights had been turned on to spot the attackers.
By 1907 the value of searchlights had become widely recognized.
Early in the morning before dawn, at around 5: 00 a. m. Moscow time, the searchlights that had been illuminating the main entrance to the theater went out.
In addition, Corregidor had 13 anti-aircraft artillery batteries with 76 guns ( 28 3-inch and 48. 50-caliber ) and 10 60-inch Sperry searchlights.
This rally was particularly notable due to Albert Speer's Cathedral of light: 152 searchlights that cast vertical beams into the sky around the Zeppelin Field to symbolise the walls of a building and the attendance of Prince Chichibu, a brother of the Emperor of Japan, who had a personal meeting with Adolf Hitler to boost relations between Japan and Germany.
A fighting patrol of 12 men sent to destroy the searchlights reached their objective but had to retire before pressing home their attack due to lack of time remaining signaled by the re-call rocket.
He had a humorous cameo in the film parody Airplane II: The Sequel ( 1982 ) as Robert Hays avoids searchlights while escaping captivity, the beams become a spotlight on Jones, performing a verse from The Love Boat theme.
A heavy downpour had knocked out the facility's electricity, deactivating the searchlights and electric fence.
Once this had happened other manually controlled searchlights also picked up the plane, and the night fighters were directed to intercept the illuminated bomber.
Later the short-range Lichtenstein radar was added to the aircraft, allowing them to detect aircraft once the operators had directed them into the area, making searchlights largely redundant.
The base had its own interim wooden barracks, searchlights and anti-aircraft guns.
In the 1930s, 20th Century Pictures introduced their futuristic " tower " logo, which had moving searchlights ; it was carried over when they merged with Fox Film Corporation and became 20th Century Fox.
Zhukov, launching his attack at night, had set up searchlights which were to illuminate the German positions in the pre-dawn darkness.

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