Example sentences of "[pers pn] have stolen from " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that morning I was frightened that my sister would discover that I had stolen from her , but luckily she was so busy cleaning the house , and roasting the chickens for our Christmas lunch that she did not notice that I had been out , or that any food was missing . |
| 2 | As soon as I saw the file , I knew it was the one I had stolen from Joe , and I knew that this man knew my convict . |
| 3 | She made coffee in a dented silver pot and served it in dark-green cups with gold rims and gold handles , cups she 'd stolen from home . |
| 4 | While they drank to celebrate the arrangement , Mrs Corney told Mr Bumble about old Sally 's death , and the unknown gold object which she had stolen from the dead body of the young woman . |
| 5 | when two men tried to leave the factory in this van which they 'd stolen from the compound . |
| 6 | All her life she had been taught that Philip and his kind were aliens in possession of land which they had stolen from its rightful owners . |
| 7 | ‘ It is not only the economic loss of the things they have stolen from them but the fear , which in some cases leads to long-term psychological consequences which , if the victim is elderly , may never go away . ’ |
| 8 | Such is the case of an innocent person into whose pocket a thief , in order to escape detection , inserts a purse which he has stolen from a third person . |
| 9 | Again , prevention is somewhat easier than overcoming the problem directly , but if you find the dog running off with something it has stolen from the rubbish , do not chase after it . |
| 10 | When police raided his house , they found a fifteenth century Bastiano which he 'd stolen from a gallery in Venice last week . |
| 11 | Above all , the flight of Rudolf Hess to Scotland gave rise to every conceivable kind of speculation — so much so that one report in Bavaria dubbed May 1941 ‘ the month of rumours ’ , as tales surfaced everywhere about the disloyalty , corruption , theft on a grand scale , and flight abroad of Reich notables such as Himmler and Ley and various Bavarian Party bosses , among them Gauleiter Adolf Wagner , said to have been caught trying to get across the Swiss border with 22 million Reichmarks he had stolen from the confiscated property of dissolved monasteries . |
| 12 | He intended to use the cash to repay the money he had stolen from the company . |
| 13 | That he had stolen from , |
| 14 | The money he had stolen from the gravel pits reposed under his bunk in the houseboat . |