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  • 'Probationer', as the name suggests, is about a young kid who falls foul of the law, while 'Kids Rule OK!' is set in a future (1986!) in which the adult population has been wiped out and gangs of teenagers fight each other, and against a sinister band of fascistic police cadets.

    British Blogs 2009

  • Probationer: “Yes sarge, but Billy himself was seen running away at the time ..”

    See No Evil…… (at least until the next financial year) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • Probationer to Burnout took less than three years in that case.

    New Art For The People « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • Take a look at the student (Probationer consigned to history with the term police force) NVQ training.

    “Could Try Harder” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • The good Knight did not tell his Superiour his Fault, thinking that would be a continual Disgrace and Blot upon our young Probationer, and likewise a sort of Disgrace to himself and his Lady, that any one should dare to have a Thought so audacious, much more to have the Impudence to own it.

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • The good Knight did not tell his Superiour his Fault, thinking that would be a continual Disgrace and Blot upon our young Probationer, and likewise a sort of Disgrace to himself and his Lady, that any one should dare to have a Thought so audacious, much more to have the Impudence to own it.

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Sacrifice, amongst these I took one, and assisted so tolerably well, that the Priests took me into their House, and treated me very kindly, making me sing, and discourse of the Science of Musick, in which I pleas'd 'em so well, (the Priests of Apollo being all great Musicians) that they were willing to take me in as a Probationer, in order to become one of their holy Fraternity.

    Exilius 2008

  • This work appeared in 1819, under the title of "Campbell, or the Scottish Probationer," in three volumes; and though published anonymously, soon led to the discovery and reputation of the author.

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

  • You will see by the Constitution that I was a "Probationer."

    Brook Farm John Thomas Codman

  • However, we had a makee-learn doctor on board -- Surgeon-Probationer, straight out of the egg, and no end of a smart lad: he dished me up in fine style.

    The Long Trick 1886-1967 Bartimeus 1926

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