Sentence examples for once patrolling from inspiring English sources

Once, patrolling a pier at dawn, disguised as a poor merchant — wearing a straw hat and stained clothes and carrying baskets of coconuts, tied to a bamboo shoulder pole — he raised the alarm on a shipment of contraband even while he was being run over by a horse and buggy, and breaking his legs.

The same hallways that Harold Hudson once patrolled when people threatened to burn the school down.

I prayed in a refugee camp that I had once patrolled as a soldier.

"Line riders" had once patrolled these boundaries every day, knowing as if by instinct where they were.

Lusty pirates once patrolled this stretch, from Halifax to Yarmouth, which also harbored British loyalists after the American Revolution.

The Vieiras were inches from the left-field grass once patrolled by Williams, Yastrzemski and Rice, and now by Ramirez.

A few miles away in the bazaar in Delaram, a town the Marines once patrolled, Islam Gul, 28, a shopkeeper, said he was glad the Americans were leaving.

Guerrillas once patrolled the streets of Planadas, the only state presence being a small police outpost that was constantly under attack.

Police in the District started using motorcycles in 1912, an obvious next step from the bicycles on which officers once patrolled.

"The matrons at the Nemo were tougher," Mr. Mooney said, referring to the schoolmarms who once patrolled the aisles at another theater on 110th Street.

The station had a generator and roll of barbed wire given to it by Italian soldiers who once patrolled in the area.