Sentence examples for on a robber from inspiring English sources

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Arrests can be made when a cop either sneaks up on a robber and tags him/her from behind, or if a cop simply touches the robber with his/her weapon.

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In Boston, an undercover cop sits on the subway, waiting for a robber to appear.

The kids learned how to ride and hunted for a robber's stash on nearby Deadman Hill.

Mayo, like many in Sallisaw, believes that Steinbeck drew on a local bank robber who gained national notoriety, Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, in creating the character of Tom Joad.

In criminal cases, they may be called on to identify a robber or describe a fraud".

This has been a really bad week for stupid criminals (or a good week if you think about it) starting with the genius who called 911 on himself and now this: a robber who somehow manages to mess up putting on a ski mask.

But with apologies to Sherlock Holmes, an iPhone — specifically, the iPhone 4 — proved quite useful in helping police officers track down a robber on Thursday in Manhattan.

Having left her husband and children, she rides off with a buttoned-down, steely-eyed drifter (Michael Higgins) who, unbeknownst to her, is a robber on the run.

"Make sure you keep enough money on you to satisfy a robber," my friend advised as we got into the car.

Then comes "Stranger at My Door" (1956), another western, this time with Macdonald Carey playing a frontier preacher whose homestead is invaded by a robber on the lam.

In the most poignant moment of the day, Paul LaRuffa, the owner of a tavern in Clinton, Md., described being shot repeatedly by a robber on Sept. 5, 2002.

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