So many pieces I wish I could have snatched off the runway and put right on that night, to ward off the Arctic blast.
"Publix has snatched up the best employees," Livingston wrote.
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He had been snatched off the street as he was putting out the rubbish, he said, and was locked in the boot of a car.
One of the three, Siarhiej Pauliukiewich, said he had been snatched off the street in Minsk, the Belarusian capital, and beaten into submission: "When you... think you're going to die, you don't think about moral considerations".
I was on the way home from interviewing female students – all of them devout, veiled Muslims – who had been snatched off the street and sexually assaulted by police for protesting against the military regime.
The company says shoppers are plucking up crocheted halter tops, swingy leather skirts and shapely jackets, lace-bordered tank tops in sherbet colors -- an array of items that might, in short, have been snatched off the racks at Express, Wet Seal or H&M, some of the Gap's newer competitors.
"Hundreds of people have been snatched off the streets under these new regulations.
"Six weeks into the year when it was really topsy-turvy and not going too well, we'd have snatched your hand off at a top-eight finish.
"If you'd said to me before the game: 'Play ugly and win one-nil', I'd have snatched your hand off".
