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In September 1939, Goodison Park was commandeered by military, the club's minutes read: "The Chairman reported that our ground has been commandeered as an anti-aircraft (Balloon Barrage section), post".

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We passed the old Vauxhall recreation club, which had been commandeered as a police staging ground.

On one side a baby cot is crammed full of teddies and baby paraphernalia; opposite, a small bed has been commandeered as a base by the midwives.

The extra-wide pavement outside the new Aldwych catwalk venue has been commandeered as a stage on which street style stars parade for their insatiable Instagram audience.

He recalled how emergency workers had guided him through the rain to an empty tram nearby, which had been commandeered as a makeshift medical bay.

The estate and village, nestled near the Dorset coast, had been commandeered as a tank firing range ahead of D-Day with its 225 inhabitants told to leave their homes.

Just a few hundred meters from the giant concrete separation wall dividing the West Bank from Israel, the hotel's forecourt has been commandeered as a weekly meeting spot for Palestinian youths readying for confrontation with Israeli soldiers.

Within days, our house was commandeered as an officers' mess hall.

The result was an interior rectangle, containing the television room and guest room, surrounded by an exterior rectangle with views in all directions that holds the living and dining room, kitchen, three elaborate bathrooms, the master bedroom, and an office for Mr. Blackston that could one day be commandeered as a nursery.

As a composer, I am weary of being commandeered as evidence of supernatural forces.

The experimentation of the 1980s, when he tried various genres and styles, yielded some lacklustre results, though 1989's "Rockin' in The Free World" was commandeered as the anthem of the collapse of communism.

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