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Example sentences for "special constable"

  • He was not without experience of the duties of a special constable, as he had been sworn in during the Bristol riots of 1830, and on that occasion saw active service.

  • I'll tell you what," she said, "old Glumgold is a special constable.

  • No, but we might find a special constable.

  • It says if you are in doubt as to the name of the district of your Local Food Office you are to inquire of any policeman or special constable.

  • Technically, it may be undignified for a Special Constable to sit down.

  • A Special Constable, raw and without experience of militant femininity, blew his police-whistle.

  • A special constable endeavours to arrest an agitator, who evidently objects, and prepares for resistance.

  • That's why you made me a special constable.

  • You know, I'm not what I call a good special constable.

  • And so now I'm a special constable, and I wear a belt and a truncheon, and what good do I do?

  • Then he talked over the invasion of England, and the murder of a special constable, and told ghost stories.

  • But the fact remains—at the very moment when you spoke I was on the point of telling you that I had decided to become a special constable.

  • Unless a man has pretty good nerves he had better not become a special constable.

  • I'm a special constable, and I want to know what you're doing on the railway line at the mouth of a tunnel.

  • He was a town councillor, and vicar's warden at the parish church, as well as a special constable.

  • She went that afternoon to see her uncle, Barton Forrester, who was a special constable, and told him about both incidents.

  • He was not quite sure what authority he had over a special constable.

  • The inspector turned to Bindle, whom he knew as a special constable.

  • I'm a special constable, I am, and you done a fine thing to-night.

  • So Mr. Britling was out of conceit with volunteering, and instead he went and was duly sworn and entrusted with the badge of a special constable.

  • Section 8 While Mr. Britling was trying to find his duty in the routine of a special constable, Mrs. Britling set to work with great energy to attend various classes and qualify herself for Red Cross work.

  • He had thought of it during his lonely prowlings as a special constable; it had flung itself in monstrous symbols across the dark canvas of his dreams.

  • I want to enrol myself as a Special Constable," I said to the man in mufti behind the desk.

  • Special Constable's Staff which belonged to the late James and Thomas Fildes, grocers, Shudehill, Manchester.

  • Tell me," she said, "some of the things you did when you were a special constable.

  • He was a special constable, Barbara; and he sat on tribunals; and he drove his motor-car like mad on government service.

  • I'm a special constable, and I've got a warrant here for your arrest.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "special constable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fifteen dollars; little speech; magnum opus; much interested; she said under her; special arrangement; special assistant; special attention; special care; special case; special class; special constable; special court; special creations; special duty; special effort; special friend; special messenger; special occasions; special orders; special permission; special rule; special sense; special session; special study; special virtue