But some managed to retrieve a few possessions.
While investors believed they had $65bn of savings, liquidators have only been able to retrieve a few million dollars.
The downtown area was cordoned off and Mr. Katz was allowed to enter his apartment only once, for 15 minutes, to retrieve a few of his things.
When, some mornings, I return, to retrieve a few final oddments — andirons, picture frames — the space of the house greets me with virginal impudence.
With luck and work, scholars retrieve a few splinters, put them in a guessed-at order and turn on some lights.
She looked up at him and replied, "If everything is going to be all right, why are you shaking so hard?" On Saturday, we were allowed to go up and retrieve a few more things.
He returned to his old building to retrieve a few belongings on the morning of Oct. 29 when he was attacked on a landing by two men, The New York Post reported at the time.
He said he left home thinking he would be back in a matter of hours, but he has not returned since, except on short day trips to retrieve a few of his belongings.
Johnson retrieved a few wayward rebounds for the kid, and then headed into a nearby high-rise, where he was joined by another cousin, who goes by the name Boom (short for Tick-Tick-Boom, a reference to his three-point shot), and an old friend, Arva.
