He has stolen people's livelihoods.
He has stolen from me in the past, he stole my mobile phone from the table".
He has stolen 20 bases and scored 71 runs.
"He has stolen bases, but I'm not going to ask him to steal 20 bases for us.
He has stolen my clothes, stolen my undies … after the election he is going to throw them back at me unwashed".
He has stolen more than a few victories for his team while playing more consistently than perhaps any other N.H.L. goalie so far this season.
He has stolen a small boy's dog, claiming it is his own, and in other ways acts more than a little eccentric.
"He has stolen the most precious thing of all, a mother to my granddaughter".
Seeing an opportunity to reinvent his bank, they say, he has stolen a march on his more sclerotic counterparts.
Plagiaristic theft is all the more injurious when the thief makes money off what he has stolen.
He swiped 83 bases in the two seasons before he signed with the Mets, and in seven years here he has stolen 100.
