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They and told
`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.
They had to be told that one.
" They want a book of 200 pages or more ", Alcott told his daughter.
They were told to limit themselves to the specification of OR. 1132.
" They will abuse bar staff, half a dozen a night, normally gangs of blokes, the marketing is directed at yobbos ," one bar owner told The Age newspaper.
They told Columbanus it was intended as a sacrifice to their god Wodan ( Illi aiunt se Deo suo Vodano nomine ), whom they identified with Roman Mercury.
They chased him relentlessly and upon reaching Delphi he was told by Apollo that he should go to Athens to seek Athena's aid ; he did so and she arranged a trial.
" They won't have me in the army, at any rate at present, because of my lungs ", Orwell told Geoffrey Gorer.
They eventually rose up in an attempt to regain their rights ; but their story is not told here.
They also differ from the Ulster Cycle in that the stories are told mainly in verse and that in tone they are nearer to the tradition of romance than the tradition of epic.
They did what they were told, bringing him seventy heads piled up in two heaps at his gate the next day.
:: They went and told the sexton, and
They told the residents of Lansing, New York that this new " city " had an area of 65 blocks, contained a church and also a public and academic square.
They, comparing the oracular response with this occurrence, decided that this was the person whom the god told them the wagon would bring.
They are told and retold endlessly in the teahouses and caravanserais of Asia and can be heard in homes and on the radio.
They placed him in a car and told him to cover himself with a blanket.
They were finally selected and told they were going to be a band.
They also allege that Zhou purposefully told Nehru that there were no border issues with India.
" They told me, " Make Mad your home ," said Aragonés, " and I took it literally.
They told him that they wanted some parts of the film to have a real and contemporary feeling and other parts, like the dream sequences, to have a very stylized look.
They land in several nearby countries that prove inhospitable, and are finally told by an oracle that they must return to the land of their forebears.
They are told only that the challenges are neither insurmountable nor unreasonable.
They were told they were on a highly secret mission, and were instructed to return to Germany after the operation and enroll in flight school.
When Labour won the 1997 general election, Powell told his wife, Pamela Wilson, " They have voted to break up the United Kingdom.

They and police
They feel they are leagued against a hostile, persecutory world, faced with the concerted malevolent opposition of squares and their hirelings, the police.
They are putting strong pressure on their police departments to keep order.
They are relentlessly rebuffed on all sides by a waitress, the police, and an intruding government tutor.
They will kneel and plead for Boris' leadership in a strangely intense song, its phrases irregularly broken as if gasping for breath, but when the police with their cudgels move away, they mock and grumble and fight among themselves.
They are more heavily armed and equipped ( including power armors like the K-11 and K-12 ) than a normal police force, but more lightly than a military organization.
They also provide a popular form of recreation, and have been adapted for such uses as children's toys, adult fitness, military and police applications, courier services and bicycle racing.
They and the Auxies became known as Tudor's Toughs after the police commander, Major-General Sir Henry Hugh Tudor.
They soon gained a reputation for brutality, as the RIC campaign against the IRA and Sinn Féin members was stepped up and police reprisals for IRA attacks were condoned by the government.
They are also sometimes denigrated by the general public as being overpaid and publicly overrated compared to a normal worker such as a doctor, police officer or a teacher.
They habitually disregarded the terms of the constitution, and, even when the elections that they rigged went against them, the directors routinely used draconian police measures to quell dissent.
They also tended to identify more closely with a culture of protest and civil disobedience, frequently clashing with police at demonstrations against nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, and the construction of a new runway ( Startbahn West ) at Frankfurt airport.
They also began selling their motorcycles to police departments around this time, a market that has been important to them ever since.
They wrote: ' It is our hope that this case will lay the foundation upon which a set of policies and guidelines are built so that when cases of abuse, especially child abuse, are alleged, the programs in place will allow for appropriate questioning and investigation by the police, physicians and child psychologists so as to drastically reduce the chances of conflicting testimony and charges of contamination that can and will raise reasonable doubt.
They would be under police observation like other criminals.
They would be forced to report to the police as other criminals were obligated to do.
They were employed by the police in dealing with prostitutes, and on their authority lunatics were shut up in hospitals and sometimes in prisons.
They adapted an existing brotherhood to the purpose of a general police acting under officials appointed by themselves, and endowed with large powers of summary jurisdiction even in capital cases.
They became a model for the police forces in most countries, such as the United States, and most of the British Empire.
They are trapped in a prison in the basement of the police station.
They can be anthropologists, artists, doctors, police, or even zealots, who will explore the mysteries of this huge artificial world and its inhabitants.
They were sent east where they were used by auxiliary police units and west to be used by Germanic-SS units such as the ones in Holland and Denmark.
They may be used for uniforms of the police or military, as well as for protection in industrial settings such as mining and construction.
They may be the first remains of a police officer to be recovered.
They were also used during the various Palestinian Intifadas against modern army personnel and riot police.

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