Sentence examples for building stole from inspiring English sources

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The police said that last Wednesday he threw the boy up against the wall of the boy's apartment building, stole his money and rode off on a bicycle.

On Friday afternoon, as the sun shone and the air appeared to sparkle, The Independent could gaze north up Manhattan, past the Empire State Building, (whose crown this new building stole), through Harlem, the Bronx and far, far beyond.

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If you catch someone in the act of spray painting a building, stealing a street sign, or otherwise destroying or vandalizing property, call your local emergency services number immediately.

The Green Mountain Boys stopped sheriffs from enforcing New York laws and terrorized settlers who had New York grants, burning buildings, stealing cattle, and administering occasional floggings with birch rods.

In Oaxaca, teachers broke into electoral headquarters and vandalized buildings, stealing computers and supplies, and destroying archival files.

Two weeks ago, Mr. Stipp said, thieves cut a five-foot-wide hole through the roof of his building and stole all the copper he had, including the pipes in his office bathroom.

In November 1963, less than a week before the new restaurant was set to open, someone tossed 10 sticks of dynamite at the base of the low-slung building and stole the lion statues that flanked the front door.

Irma Mendez, who lives in the Wagner Houses in Harlem, said her 22-year-old son was robbed at gunpoint in an elevator last year; the robber, who lived in the same complex, but one building over, stole his cellphone and jacket, Ms. Mendez said.

The building fell into disrepair, and its equipment was damaged after several acts of vandalism in which unknown persons illegally entered the building and stole key components of the telescope.

He called the organization's supporters "hooligans" and likened Mr. Garcia's use of the building to stealing cars.

You don't have to break into a building to steal documents that might be in the public interest.

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