Sentence examples for nicked from inspiring English sources

Vince Cable did his after-dinner speaking comedy act (I met William Hague afterwards, who swears that some of Cable's lines were nicked from his repertoire) and the studio audience loved him for it.

Winstone, just 20 at the time, is swaggeringly scary as Trainee 4737 Carlin: the cockney new kid on the block, nicked for stealing scrap metal and determined to become "top dog".

We know this because he has nicked Bill Clinton's theme tune.

"It was local people who nicked cigarettes and alcohol on the street.

This week, a judge ruled that the band had indeed nicked it from the campfire song Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree.

"If you nicked a bag of potatoes they'd put you away for five or seven years".

4. Don't buy insurance Worried your iPad/bike/phone will be nicked?

To see whether the ball nicked the bat, umpires use a heat-sensitive camera called hotspot.

In its mildest form, a girl has the skin covering her clitoris nicked or excised.

His most recent incarnation was as chairman of Yukos, a now dismantled oil company, whose founder is in a Russian jail: "I was supposed to be a go-between for the Kremlin and Mikhail Khodorkovsky," he says.Nor did Mr Gerashchenko mince words when he summed up, on air, the fate of Yukos: "The fuckers nicked it".

Then, on the basis of a "secret" police report that even the electoral commission was not allowed to see, it scrapped the election.In this section Splitting headaches Go away and vote again You're nicked, your honour Not being there Not a pleasant prospect ReprintsMr Nasheed, the country's first elected president, was ousted in what was, in essence, a coup in 2012.