Sentence examples for a local constable from inspiring English sources

In 1858, he killed his first man, stabbing a local constable over a financial dispute.

The authorities said Mr. Caffall killed a local constable who was serving him with an eviction notice and a 51-year-old man.

A local constable went to assess the situation, but on being confronted with a huge bear he took fright and ran to fetch the menagerie owner.

— A gunman opened fire on police officers near the Texas A&M University campus shortly after noon on Monday, killing at least two people, including a local constable, and wounding four others, the police said.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — A gunman opened fire on the police near the Texas A&M University campus shortly after noon on Monday, killing at least two people, including a local constable, and wounding at least two others, the police said.

They based the accusation on hearsay accounts stemming from a Houston television producer who supposedly heard from a local constable that an unidentified customs agent in Arizona knew of reported payoffs to customs agents to let the truck through checkpoints.

The headlights and instruments are always lighted, but at night you must remember to click the light switch to activate the taillights — an electrical idiosyncrasy (for a 2008 car, anyway) that I learned about thanks to a helpful local constable.

Far from being a self-conscious clown, Mark Addy's Dogberry is also a self-important local constable who takes himself seriously and is thereby all the funnier.

Another, a firefighter and local constable, has been found and hospitalized with serious injuries.

Embodying the aggressive friendliness of the Yabba (as the residents affectionately call their colony of shacks and rusted cars) is the local constable, played in a wonderfully subversive bit of casting by Chips Rafferty, the idealized Australian male in many films of the 1950s.

The next day, Friday, 18 May 1827, he appeared at the Martens' cottage during the day, and according to Ann Marten, told Maria that they must leave at once, as he had heard that the local constable had obtained a warrant to prosecute her (no warrant had been obtained, but it is not known if Corder was lying or was mistaken).