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Example sentences for "commissioned officer"

  • The non-commissioned officer thought to himself: "This looks all right.

  • He is a non-commissioned officer in the artillery, monsieur.

  • He was an old non-commissioned officer, who had never been seen to smile, but who carried out all the orders of his superiors to the letter, no matter what they might be.

  • He had lost all his belongings in the adventure, and was looked after by Heder, a non-commissioned officer, and the trustworthy and cautious leader of the supply column.

  • The women were kept in order and protected by a European or a trustworthy old non-commissioned officer, assisted by a few Askari.

  • Thus a foundation is laid for promotion from the ranks to the position of riding-master, who ranks as a commissioned officer.

  • Never remove the hand guard or the trigger guard, nor take the sights apart unless you have special permission from a commissioned officer.

  • If the number of prisoners, including general prisoners, confined at a post justifies it, the commanding officer will detail a commissioned officer as "officer in charge of prisoners.

  • SCENE XI Khlestakov, the Locksmith's Wife, and the non-commissioned Officer's Widow.

  • Staff-Sergeant Wilson, who was killed with him, was the senior technical non-commissioned officer of No.

  • Promotion in both army and navy was slow before the war, so that a non-commissioned officer or petty officer was often a married man, considerably in advance of the age at which the most successful war pilots are made.

  • It isn’t fit that such a man as you should waste himself in the position of a non-commissioned officer.

  • So it naturally came about that I was put into place as a non-commissioned officer, and I am now sergeant-major, greatly to my regret.

  • So long as I am a condemned criminal, a fugitive from justice, I simply cannot consent to become a commissioned officer entitled by my government’s certification to meet on equal terms men against whom no accusation has been laid.

  • If that were all, I would not have you turn your hand over to lift this man into place as a commissioned officer.

  • That does not strike me as proper work for a commissioned officer.

  • She commenced by saying: "Now that you are to be a commissioned officer, don't get the big head.

  • And that was my first day as a commissioned officer.

  • In my wildest dreams of promotion I had never hoped to be a commissioned officer.

  • Sergeant-major Spooner felt the time ripe for him to cross the line from non-com to commissioned officer.

  • A slow flush, brick-red and hot, spread over the bronzed face of the non-commissioned officer.

  • I'm only a non-commissioned officer, and you're almost a school-teacher.

  • A non-commissioned officer is lodged at each end of the corridor to see that order is kept.

  • The place was defended by General Perron, who had risen from the rank of a non-commissioned officer of the French Marine to be Commander in Chief of the Scindiah's army.

  • Could one of the privates rise to a commissioned officer, Sergeant?

  • Glad to meet you, sir," said the old non-commissioned officer stiffly.

  • But have you no fear that marrying the child of a non-commissioned officer, who is in the same corps with yourself, will have the effect to lessen your consequence in the regiment?

  • Was this girl--sick apparently in body and mind--the guileless maiden who had listened with such flattering attention to the stories of his wanderings in foreign lands, when he last came down to Beechfield Hall?

  • She drew herself away from him as she spoke, and rose to her full height.

  • If the number of prisoners, including general prisoners, confined at a post justifies it, the commanding officer will detail a commissioned officer as "officer in charge of prisoners".

  • All such instruction is under the careful personal supervision of a commissioned officer, and in the corresponding mounted instruction it is desirable that the actual instructor be a commissioned officer when this is practicable.

  • The actual instruction of each group should be conducted by a noncommissioned officer, but the instruction must be closely supervised by a commissioned officer (par.

  • Finally the non-commissioned officer told me that I could continue on my way; that they would certainly take care of me in Aerschot, as I had been firing at Germans, and they would shoot me when I arrived.


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