When they arrived in the village, a patrol of mounted troops tried, and failed, to stop them.

The patrols were not stopping every attempt to leave the island.

The patrols might stop you if you happened to run into them.

A few minutes later a British patrol stopped the three men.

So I went over, got my pictures and ran like hell back to where the patrol had stopped.

Better keep along with us, so other patrols won't stop you.

Those patrols, they said, do not stop and check documents or identify travelers.

At a brief hand signal from their leader the patrol stopped, facing him.

A military patrol might wonder at the sight and stop him for questioning.

A patrol of cadets stopped a car coming from the city.