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Example sentences for "working party"

  • The remainder { of this regiment's working party--at Fort George.

  • A working party consisting of nine hundred men to be ordered tomorrow morning from the different brigades, & the regiments.

  • Prescott will furnish 150 men each as a working party on Governor's Island.

  • A working party of 900 men properly officered to parade tomorrow morning near the artillery park.

  • Two days after this, he was in command of a covering party to a working party in an advanced position.

  • He and I were bringing back my working party on the 10th of August from Versa to Rubbia in a lorry.

  • It had been exhausting and almost sleepless work for the detachments for several days past, for Darrell and a working party of forty were away preparing the reserve position on San Michele, and we had hardly any reliefs for the guns.

  • Working party, under the command of Major Macdonell--400 of the 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade.

  • He was out with a working party of his regiment, which had got a little out of their way, when a number of men were observed through the dawning light in front of them.

  • You are standing at a corner studying a map, and you notice that a working party is passing the corner frequently on some duty or another.

  • I thought he might be a spy but I accosted him and found he was one of the Strathcona Horse who had a working party in the trenches that night.

  • They were going off later into No Man's Land on a working party.

  • This shell burst amongst a working party of the 6th Seaforth Highlanders, killing the officer and 3 men, and wounding 21 other ranks.

  • One shell burst amongst a working party of the 6th Black Watch as they were returning their tools at a dump, killing and wounding some twenty of them.

  • It burst close to a working party of the 5th Seaforths, who had just fallen in to draw tools from a dump, and wounded 26 of them, including 2 officers.

  • He had taken charge of our section as a working party, and when he turned to me in making up his tally I saw that he wore a ribbon (p.

  • The third fear was three cries, again in the dark, when a neighbouring battalion sent out a working party to dig a sap in front of our lines.

  • We were coming in, a working party, from the trenches when the colour of dawn was in the sky.

  • Each man had direction of a working party, and in the execution of that duty they retained their arms and gave directions to the men.

  • At half past twelve Lieutenant Stevens ordered to examine the infantry communication, reconnoitred on the previous day, in order to commence the trenches at night with a working party.

  • Lieutenant Mason in charge of a working party at the batteries.

  • A new mortar battery commenced yesterday nearly finished to-day, under the particular direction of Lieutenant Stevens, with a working party of one company of the 4th infantry under the command of Lieutenant Lincoln.

  • One of my working party, a typical Cockney, surveyed him and said: "Look!

  • HERE AND THERE Answered We were a working party of British prisoners marching through the German barracks on our way to the parcel office.

  • A working party, complete with rifles, picks, and spades, which continually became entangled in the cats' cradle of miscellaneous R.

  • It was plain to me that with a working party of two hundred men--which was the greatest number we could supply with tools--a straight steep ramp could be cut on both banks in six or eight hours hard work.

  • General Pillow who was to occupy a position beyond Malibran, requested me to take charge of a working party of his troops and, with the engineer company, locate and open a road along his line to the bare sand hills on his left.

  • The engineer company was recalled from Worth, and with a working party of 500 men, was ordered to make the road to Padierna practicable for artillery".

  • The Kilties had a hard time of it, and had to get another dress before they could be taken on a working party.

  • One morning when the guards were at their difficult task of making up a working party, they reported that they were twenty-five men short.

  • Then I remembered how bitterly we resented the action of a British Sergeant Major at Giessen, who had been appointed by the German officer in charge to see after a working party of our boys.

  • Another time one of the fellows from our hut, who was a member of a working party, was shot through the legs by the guard, who claimed he was trying to escape, and after that there were no more working parties allowed for a while.

  • The 17th Regiment furnished a working party of one hundred men for the advanced trenches yesterday evening.

  • While on duty, I supervised a working party, consisting of Sergeant Dawson and eleven B Company men, in Bilge Trench.

  • There came an order for a working party of one officer and twenty men to report at Potijze dump at once.

  • A working party of the Battalion was to leave after dinner.

  • Blamey and I then supervised a working party in Durham Trench.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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