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- verb UK Simple past tense and past participle of
billet .
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Examples
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I am happier with the naming of my ‘lakewoman’ in my imminent novel, ‘The Lakewoman’ because it combines a plausible nickname given to her by the german troops billetted in her Normandy farmhouse while also alluding to the Viviane of Arthurian story who was the Lady Of The Lake.
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And on a larger scale, he believed throughout World War II that peace would bring the British revolution he desired, with blood in the gutters and the "red militias ... billetted in the Ritz," as he put it in private diary and public essay.
Such, Such Was Eric Blair Barnes, Julian 2009
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I still favor having troops billetted in each household.
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Speaking from Kinshasa's Grand Hotel where they are billetted, three of the five militia leaders appointed army generals condemned the UN killings and stressed they had lost contact with their bases.
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Equipped with some new information recently supplied by several of the FEPOWs, along with the leads we had discovered late last year on our first trip, I decided to try to locate the school where the prisoners were billetted while they laboured to build the huts at the OKA campsite.
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The POWs mentioned some sort of school where they were billetted for the period while they built the bamboo huts.
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They were billetted at a school while they finished the first two huts, and then on July
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Tuesday's schedule of working breakfasts and seminars was heavily disrupted by the demonstrations, by blockage of access to the complex for delegates billetted at other hotels, and by stringent security checks mounted by Zimbabwean officials at every internal door.
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To this end, a number of the settlers were billetted with the Indians.
Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Annie Lash Jester
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Island on parole, and billetted, two in a house, on the families residing in the little townships of Flatbush, New Utrecht, Newlots, and Gravesend, who were compelled to board and lodge us at the rate of two dollars per week, a small compensation indeed in the exhausted state of that section of country.
American Prisoners of the Revolution Danske Dandridge
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