Sentence examples for get nabbed from inspiring English sources

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(Plenty more get nabbed earlier in the journey: Fernando Lezama, the chief migration official in Corinto, says up to 5,000 unaccompanied Honduran kids have been deported from Mexico so far this year).The sudden influx of children into the United States has nearly overwhelmed the agencies that must deal with it.

For the next two weeks I live out of my truck, showering in the Syracuse gym, moving the Ford around town at night so as not to get nabbed for vagrancy, thinking it might reflect badly on me if I have to call Toby, or Doug Unger, my other future-teacher at Syracuse, and request bail money.

I hope in the next few years that G4S and companies like it get nabbed tagging wooden legs, gravestones or something equally daft: the sooner we get over the ridiculous notion that the private sector is the best answer to reforming public services the better.

After setting up SpamWatch in the program's preferences and deciding how aggressively you want to screen your mail (stricter settings increase the chance that legitimate messages get nabbed, but looser restrictions may allow more spam to slither through), you simply let Eudora check the mail as usual.

In Pictures: How Not to Get Nabbed.

"We stopped them!" Drew is lucky she didn't get nabbed.

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"We got nabbed in Edinburgh," he says.

There's a greater risk of getting nabbed, so always an extra thrill.

The trouble with Pina is that her stuff is so distinctive you've got a real problem passing it off as your own without getting nabbed.

Occasionally a gamekeeper gets nabbed, but the owners of the estates, who either commission, endorse or turn a blind eye to what their staff are doing, never have their collars felt.

The girl gets nabbed for shoplifting, but a clerk takes her picture and lets her go.

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