Sentence examples for take a prisoner from inspiring English sources

The Japanese, take a prisoner?

They are to stay one week and if possible take a prisoner.

He obtained a stolen pass and a forged document authorizing the purported guard to take a prisoner to work at a nearby farm.

There is a federal rule of criminal procedure that requires law enforcement officials to take a prisoner to a judge for an initial hearing "without unnecessary delay".

Slovenia was told to take a prisoner if it wanted to meet with President Obama, while the island nation of Kiribati was offered incentives worth millions of dollars to take in Chinese Muslim detainees, cables from diplomats recounted.

One of the rebel leaders reportedly told a New York Times correspondent that "the black devils fought like tigers, and that the white officers had got them so trained that not one would surrender, though they tried to take a prisoner".

Slovenia is offered the chance to meet President Barack Obama if it takes a prisoner, while Kiribati, in the South Pacific, is offered millions of dollars of incentives.

He was taken a prisoner of war on the Western Front in Flanders in August 1917 and was held at Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp, where he remained until December 1918.

When the visit was over, Jackson used the gun to take a guard prisoner, and forced him to unlock the..

The mission was to collect information about the surrounding area, and take a German guard prisoner.

Better that than a prisoner take a staff member hostage trying to breach a secure perimeter, they explain.