Example sentences of "had been steal from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I remember a border collie that had been stolen from outside a shop where he 'd been tied . |
| 2 | Even the possibility of this birthright had been stolen from him , though not by these Latinos . |
| 3 | Two coats had been stolen from a car at the back of Cross Street , but the thief was later arrested and cleared of the Oliver case . |
| 4 | I wondered aloud whether it was possible to buy one of their bulletproof vests and whether there were trousers to match ; but really I wanted to be away from this place where even my pure anger had been stolen from me . |
| 5 | The youth was certainly one of the vagabond gipsies , and it looked as if he had been spying out Farmer Yatton 's land , for the very next morning Angela 's daddy came into the farmhouse with the news that several sacks of potatoes and a quantity of oats had been stolen from one of the storehouses during the night . |
| 6 | When Rough returned home to Glasgow the CID swooped on his house trying to recover a colour television set that had been stolen from the hotel . |
| 7 | If the animal had been stolen from another district , and its owner did not as a result claim it , thieves could buy the fully-documented animal for a nominal sum . |
| 8 | Since the animals had been stolen from Anuradhapura , the descriptions were not recognized as those of stolen animals , and the system continued undetected |
| 9 | It was a period of penury such that James and his team spent one night in Pau furtively thieving back the petrol that had been stolen from their car and eventually hitchhiking back home via Le Havre , with no food on the way — and it brought out in James qualities of tenacity that he had n't really suspected in himself . |
| 10 | He was arrested three weeks later in possession of a giro cheque which had been stolen from another woman mugged in nearby Old Kent Road . |
| 11 | Police later found the coffin , which had been stolen from an undertaker , buried under rubbish bags . |
| 12 | Finally , in continuity with some elements of the earlier anti-slave trade argument , Buxton , Stephen and Clarkson all saw British pride in the achievement of abolition and the moral stature this accorded the nation , at least in its own eyes , as requiring the step of liberating those who had been stolen from Africa before 1807 and their descendants since the principle of hostility to man stealing remained the same . |
| 13 | In other words , someone had set fire to the dacha , and the things had been stolen from it before the fire had started . |
| 14 | It was reported on 14 October that eight sixteenth-century paintings valued at £25 million had been stolen from Weimar Castle in the former DDR . |
| 15 | Clara 's one solace had been the cold , tight dignity of her case , and this had been stolen from her , robbed from her by an elderly woman 's few words of casual humanity . |
| 16 | Many people thought that these days had been stolen from them . |
| 17 | Phetam had been stolen from Ardakke by someone who had no shortage of credits to spend and who had access to the secretive practices of diplomats and Emissaries . |
| 18 | A pair of Adam candelabra had been stolen from Mr. Reid 's home . |
| 19 | ONE of the guns found in West Belfast recently had been stolen from a police inspector in 1988 . |
| 20 | Diplomats based in Haiti estimated that since October as much as US$14,000,000 had been stolen from public funds . |
| 21 | The car had been stolen from the Weston Favell shopping centre in Northampton . |
| 22 | The car had been stolen from London … |
| 23 | He admitted handling over four hundred pounds which had been stolen from a post office in Reading . |
| 24 | Redcar MP Mo Mowlam returned on Thursday night from a train trip to London to find her white Ford Sierra had been stolen from Darlington railway station . |
| 25 | Police are investigating a ram raid after a farmer reported a Suffolk ram had been stolen from his field at Grove Farm , Bradbury , near Sedgefield . |
| 26 | He said investigations showed Mr Still was the holder of a provisional licence , there was no test certificate or insurance and the vehicle had been stolen from the Sunderland area . |
| 27 | A BANK robber who claimed his £2,600 haul had been stolen from woods where he had hidden the money was jailed for seven years yesterday . |
| 28 | A LORRY driver told the High Court in Inverness yesterday of the night he had been masked , bound and abducted by two men who had threatened to shoot him after his load of spirits , tobacco and foodstuffs had been stolen from Inverness . |
| 29 | The army said 60 sheep had been stolen from the settlement the previous night . |
| 30 | He also admitted attempting to defraud the Provincial Insurance Company and falsely representing to police officers that the car had been stolen from Cotton Street , Castle Douglas . |