Mostly, they gamble with other people's money, filching fat fees whether the gamble pays off or not. |
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What did become clear was that the crows discriminated between their relatives and others when it came to filching their food. |
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When John Major initiated the Lottery, he put safeguards in place to stop Government filching the cash. |
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Those expressions might have been reversed in the final minute, as Hearts came close to filching a winner. |
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She kept both hands filled by filching another one off the tray. |
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Maybe he'd seen our happy faces, staring from Mrs. Larkin's apple tree, realising that there must be more to life than filching apples and scaring pigeons. |
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Farmers saw the speculators in the Grain Exchange filching their profits as prices were often depressed in the fall, when most farmers had to sell. |
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Could being accused of filching a fragile old lady out of her pennies spell the end for Nicolas Sarkozy? |
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The act of theft is also known by other terms such as stealing, thieving, and filching. |
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Before you know it, there's an escaped whatchamacallit — half platypus, half mole — filching jewellery and cash, and a mega-rhino with a glowing horn marauding through Central Park in search of a mate. |
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He argued that central government was now much cleaner, but that certain state governors were still filching with gusto. Whether or not Mr Ribadu's estimates are to be believed, his gripe about the states is justified. |
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He recalled the one where Gypsies ran a bujo scam, promising to cleanse supposedly cursed money and filching it instead. |
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The farm drivers were often found to be filching from the cars for spare parts or moonlighting with trucks for personal gain. |
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The wind-up arm has a kleptomaniacal mind of it own, filching objects from passersby and causing its new owner much embarrassment. |
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Filching through her clean clothes, she pulled on her underclothes, then a different school uniform though it was just as wrinkled as the other one. |
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