Sentence examples for took commanders from inspiring English sources

It took commanders in Baghdad several hours to realize whom they had nabbed, but the informant was quickly shipped to Tikrit for questioning on Saturday morning.

KzS Ernst-Ludwig Thienemann, the ship's final commander, took command of Admiral Scheer in April 1944.

For his efforts Jervis was promoted commander and took command of.

The mutiny began suddenly, at an annual conference of the border force, as a number of guards took their commanders, officers of the Bangladeshi Army, hostage.

In fact, American soldiers were "falling" there at a rate that took their commanders by surprise and troubled them.

One of Geiers cutters took her commander, Lieutenant Commander Grasshoff, aboard Emden to meet with her captain.

On 28 December, Blamey, as senior ranking battalion commander, took over as acting commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade.

They have joined the teachers' movement (naming one of their heavies "Commander Wolf", to take on Commander Spartacus).

The Taliban took many mujahedeen commanders to prison in Kandahar.

General Franks also took his fellow commanders on a tour of the palace.

"The local commanders took all of the rice," Mr. Basirat said.