Sentence examples for has cheated him from inspiring English sources

After the death of his father, young David Balfour discovers that his uncle Ebenezer has cheated him out of his inheritance.

When a gambler believes a slot machine has cheated him, the casino is required to contact the Gaming Control Board, which has investigators on call around the clock.

Where Scofield gave us silky irony, McKellen a touch of the stand-up comic and Suchet a self-accusing grief, Everett emphasises the gulf between Salieri's stately exterior and dark rage at the God he feels has cheated him.

TWO young black men carjack a white woman's expensive SUV; a white, working-class police officer gropes a rich black woman while her husband, a black Hollywood executive, looks on in impotent rage; a Latina police detective and a Korean woman hurl racial insults at each other after a minor traffic accident; an Iranian shopkeeper sets off to kill a Latino locksmith who he assumes has cheated him.

(The former partners also have a number of disagreements about non-GGC-related business, and each complains that the other has cheated him in various ways).

For several years, Martin's wanted to build schools for kids in third world countries, but has talked himself out of it for fear of 'how would I make a living?' His fear has cheated him out of his inspirational vision.

Corrupt local officials there had cheated him out of land and logging revenues, he said.

He said party officials had cheated him and other independents through gerrymandering, intimidation and foul play.

He told me about Rosa and how this man had cheated him out of his rightful inheritance.

He charged that they had cheated him out of millions of dollars in commission on what was to have been a ten-year swap of oil between Kazakhstan and Iran.

But Siegel wrote that "the people who exploit and profit from Superman are greedy and selfish," and had cheated him out of the rights to his creation.