Sentence examples for robbery scene from inspiring English sources

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Nor was she at the robbery scene.

One robbery scene was designed as a single-take set piece that allowed no room for error.

The robbery scene itself is an old-fashioned staple: safety deposit boxes.

Authorities were investigating an attempted robbery scene in north Texas where two Oklahoma teenagers were found fatally shot.

The charges date back to the 1995 deaths of two 19-year-old men, who were shot at 37 times by officers from an interstate overpass as they ran away from a robbery scene.

The centrepiece of Maids is probably the bus robbery scene – a witty, even rather daringly black comic sequence, given that bus robberies are an all too grimly real phenomenon: the film was made one year after a notorious armed robbery and hostage-taking situation in Rio, an event recorded in José Padilha's documentary Bus 174.

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"That's all been done before in British cinema," says Ali. "There's a template that says British films for urban kids have to have a staple diet – a bunch of hoodies, loads of blood and robbery scenes".

A lot of banks were uncomfortable letting us shoot bank robbery scenes in them, so we were lucky to find former banks that still had most of their features in place.

The central protagonist is Michael Dowd, a patrolman in the NYPD's 75th precinct in the East New York area of Brooklyn (hence the title); having served over 11 years in jail for his eight-year splurge shaking down drug dealers and and stealing from robbery scenes, Dowd tells the camera in impressive – if self-serving – detail how he ended up as one of New York's most corrupt cops.

The coldly fragmented bank-robbery scene that sets the plot in motion offers an odd aside of a veterans' reunion, and the memories and scars of war crop up decisively throughout the movie.

They pull a fast one on some bagmen working for the New York gangster Arnold Rothstein, setting them up for a robbery, but the scene becomes chaotic when Capone is spooked by a deer in the woods and starts shooting, killing several men.

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