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custody
1. Again I see my father-in-law, who has been dead for a good ten years, showing me the thing and telling me how he was given it by a German soldier he had taken into custody during the war
2. “He’s in custody sir,” she said and then sat back
3. into the custody of a foster family who hoped to adopt
4. "Custody suite, with the M
5. that Markham is in custody
6. While Billy sits quiet and still amid the heavy metal sounds of the custody suite, his companions reach out and take his hands in theirs and the three of them begin to mime and mug like savant idiots, and with the sound turned down, with the picture fading to a single white dot, they start to belt out Billy’s favourite song without shifting a single molecule of air:
7. “Once we have the bomb and your friends in custody I’ll put you out of
8. custody to answer charges of heresy and witchcraft,’ he
9. should be given custody of the accused
10. They had been remanded into their uncle’s custody and he had moved them to his run down farm in Cornwall
11. In his stern voice the king said, “We have the woman who did this in custody
12. They placed us in the custody of a drunken asshole
13. And now that they had her in their custody, they would not hesitate to bring the Breton man in as well for questioning
14. “Nells! Give me that!” With the note safely returned to his custody, Carius took a quick glance at it and refolded it
15. Hans had taken both Mars and Rogan into custody, not allowing Aspen to see either of them
16. They’re both in Hans’s custody now
17. All the time they were playing the Queen never left off quarrelling with the other players, and shouting ‘Off with his head!’ or ‘Off with her head!’ Those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave off being arches to do this, so that by the end of half an hour or so there were no arches left, and all the players, except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and under sentence of execution
18. If a union with the colonies were to take place, those commodities might be taxed, either before they go out of the hands of the manufacturer or grower ; or, if this mode of taxation did not suit the circumstances of those persons, they might be deposited in public warehouses, both at the place of manufacture, and at all the different ports of the empire, to which they might afterwards be transported, to remain there, under the joint custody of the owner and the revenue officer, till such time as they should be delivered out, either to the consumer, to the merchant-retailer for home consumption, or to the merchant-exporter; the tax not to be advanced till such delivery
19. In this case, and I don’t really know if the story is true, a terrorist tried to escape custody by jumping into a river and a constable dove in after him to apprehend him
20. “We have Jocko’s jailers in custody, but they were only following orders from the man
21. Who will fail to recall Apartheid Police Minister Jimmy Kruger notorious reply on hearing of the death of Steve Biko in SAP custody: “It leaves me cold!” Or in other words: “I really don’t give a (you know what) if you have seen the movie
22. How will you feel when the current Minister of Law and Order says: "I don't mind if my black policemen kick whites to death whilst in SAPS custody
23. Lord Weston’s men will be waiting to take him into custody
24. “Surprised to see me out of custody, I might imagine?” he queried with a wolfish grin
25. Addendum to the above: These (monstrous) atrocities call for a swift execution of Justice whereby the offending party or parties are quickly apprehended and taken into (martial) custody, properly arraigned, expeditiously brought to trial and adjudicated in conformance with rules of evidence
26. In my case, the solution may have been for joint custody or at least regular visitations - which I did not have with my father
27. All the time they were playing the Queen never left off quarrelling with the other players, and shouting 'Off with his head!' or 'Off with her head!' Those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave off being arches to do this, so that by the end of half an hour or so there were no arches left, and all the players, except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and under sentence of execution
28. Police would neither confirm nor deny that a person of interest has been taken into custody
29. released Sharon to the custody of the police since they could find
30. They rounded up and imprisoned 6,000 dissidents and ethnic groups considered suspect, holding some in custody for up to two years after the end of the war
31. She drove to Police Headquarters, half expecting to be arrested too, but found Mike, not in custody, but in the cafeteria chatting amiably over a cup of coffee with Caroline and a senior police official
32. The worst news was that the evidence was deemed compelling enough to continue him in custody pending trial
33. I’m a dead man, ain’t I?” I said mostly to myself, believing that pretty soon I’d be in custody for felonies committed in fifty-one states (counting the job in Puerto Rico)
34. “He"s still in custody
35. “This ship is in my care and custody, and as a licensed security agent I have sworn to uphold the law and to protect the property thus entrusted to me,” Hartle informed them in an indignant voice
36. It wouldn’t last a day in police custody without being lost, burned or given over to Gordon, and later, anyone who asked about it wouldn’t be able to find a soul who so much as remembered it
37. Brendan is not the type to be locked into protective custody, and the smaller police stations can easily be stormed by professionals anyway
38. “Unfortunately, for the prosecuting attorney, the material evidence against your mules has mysteriously disappeared from police custody, and they have, therefore, been released
39. He didn’t tell him that he had seen a photo of Belinda Weo, in a blue dress with yellow flowers, her flat-brimmed yellow hat, complete with her pet biped Pookie on her shoulder, at the head of the parade, nor that the one prisoner in custody instantly identified her with a single glance at some archival news video
40. He managed to find time to stop by and see Frau Bergheim, and found that both her sons were at the farm, having been released from custody only a week previous to his visit
41. Another cartoon depicted senior police as snails, slow to investigate an indigenous death in custody on Palm Island, which resulted in rioting that burnt down the only police station, barracks and court house on the island
42. “We have already discussed this! He is still my prisoner,” he insisted, but his voice sounded less severe as he added, “But he must go with me, until I can remand him to the custody of another who might better understand the way he talks
43. He turned quickly on his heel, appearing to accept her look of troubled acquiescence, as well as her move toward self-proclaimed temporary custody of his prisoner
44. casket, so the mourner in custody may pay his respects
45. There continued to be no sign that the Russians were aware that the woman who had died in their custody was not Elizabeth, but there had been inquiries about two men in a pickup truck, one an American
46. Krazinsky and the blonde American woman known as either ‘Elzbieta’ or ‘Delores Warrencliffe,’ take your choice; as well as this German couple, the Breitmanns, escaped from the custody of the Polish Criminal Police while charged with the murder of an elderly Polish woman in the south of the country
47. He has a government agent there, waiting to take you into custody
48. All of the children have been court ordered into the custody of the Maine Department for Children and Families
49. The judge ordered that Cindy, Brian, Becky, and Keith be placed in CPS custody, and that the children be returned to Maine
50. He issued a written order that all of the children were to be placed in the custody of the State of Maine