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  • Already, we understand, there have been situations where senior NCOs have refused to lead patrols in Snatches, without specific written orders spelling out the implications and, as we know, some officers have been extremely reluctant to order their men to patrol in these vehicles.

    What turned the tide? Richard 2006

  • Three "Snatches" are in the shot, and I suspect even Lord Drayson would have difficulty claiming that the RG-31 was too big for this road.

    The lies of Lord Drayson Richard 2006

  • They are not up-armoured Land Rovers and could never be a replacement for "Snatches".

    Archive 2007-02-01 Richard 2007

  • Snatches of popular songs of the time—"Nothing but blue birds all day long"; "You've got the cutest little baby face"—serve as refrains, commenting, often ironically, on the novel's action.

    Destiny's Children Joseph Epstein 2012

  • Snatches of his conversation told me that the wind was blowing: Rip-snorting and back-jumping, eh? ...

    The Sheriff of Kona 2010

  • Snatches of music from the jazz era played through open windows, and a Model T tooled down the street.

    Sparks Laura Bickle 2010

  • Snatches of conversation from the first hour came back to him, and he remembered sitting at table between a cross old writer from the Baltimore Sun and an earnest woman breeder from Lexington, neither of whom he liked; but an uninterrupted blank started from halfway through the fried chicken.

    The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

  • Snatches of tinny piano music, shrill laughter, the shrieks of women, the occasional breaking of glass; they all seemed to come to him from another world, across a distance too vast to bridge.

    red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

  • Snatches of music from the jazz era played through open windows, and a Model T tooled down the street.

    Sparks Laura Bickle 2010

  • Snatches of music from the jazz era played through open windows, and a Model T tooled down the street.

    Sparks Laura Bickle 2010

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