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The Arab Patrol choose

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[UK] ‘Ex-Légionnaire 1384’ Arab Patrol 19: I suggested that it might be as well, since the murder had been committed by a white man, to check up all visitors who had entered Constantine during the last few days .
at check out, v.2
[UK] Ex-Légionnaire 1384 Arab Patrol 294: An agent of L’Espionage Centrale was bound to catch it one way or another [...] it was better to go out this way, after letting daylight into thirteen dirty Arabs.
at let the daylight into/through (v.) under daylight, n.1
[UK] Ex-Légionnaire 1384 Arab Patrol 294: An agent of L’Espionage Centrale was bound to catch it one way or another [...] it was better to go out this way, after letting daylight into thirteen dirty Arabs.
at go out, v.
[UK] Ex-Légionnaire 1384 Arab Patrol 291: ‘If they attack again I fancy I can settle a few of them’.
at settle, v.
[UK] ‘Ex-Légionnaire 1384’ Arab Patrol 290: I [...] caught a quick glimpse of a figure climbing down from a palm tree, and snapped a shot at it .
at snap, v.
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