While I sample a Heineken, an old genever or two and a portion of marinated herring, she is busy ransacking the airport shops for free samples. |
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I'm here ransacking my closet for something good enough to wear, I can't believe all the trash I've got in here! |
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Soon bands of hungry insurgents were ransacking strongpoints in the city for arms, powder, and hoards of flour. |
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After ransacking the vestry and attempting to tear a steel donation box from the wall the burglars left empty-handed. |
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They forced their way in, demanded money and snatched a cordless phone from the man's hand before ransacking the house. |
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The thieves broke in by forcing a casement window in the dining room before ransacking the house. |
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The police spent an hour combing the residence, probing the floor and compound and ransacking the wardrobes. |
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Now, he's slashing capital expenditures and ransacking his portfolio for bits and pieces to sell, all to bring down debt. |
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Instead of ransacking the empty hive, other bees would avoid it like the plague. |
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In response, the Government brutally cracked down, firing into unarmed crowds and ransacking monasteries at night. |
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Recently, however, evil imps have been ransacking your possessions and scaring your people! |
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Men toting guns were ransacking shops of whatever they could carry. |
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Samar learned it was this same commander who had ordered the bombing and ransacking of her hospital inside Afghanistan. |
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Electricity has yet to be restored to downtown Tacloban and night-time shootings and ransacking have been reported in the area. |
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Peter Watkins' Culloden was a powerful recreation of the massacre of the Jacobites at the hands of the English in 1746, and the subsequent ransacking of the Highlands. |
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An outbreak of violence in N'Djamena, Chad in early February 2008 resulted in the ransacking of the Court's field office there. |
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To get the money together, Athens has been ransacking its health budget and the reserves of its public utilities. |
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Great art has felt the lick of flames before, but often by ransacking or accident. |
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But the motivation for ransacking museums, even for fundamentalists, is sometimes simpler. |
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However, it didn't seem like they were ransacking the place. |
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As a result, south-east Asia's biggest oil producer is ransacking its foreign exchange reserves to pay for imported oil and to shore up its currency. |
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The ransacking and destruction of the Chinese palaces has led to unhealed historical wounds in Chinese culture. |
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All of them must work together to prevent the loss, destruction, removal, theft, ransacking and illicit trafficking in, or improper acquisition of, cultural property, including any damage or act of vandalism. |
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Through detailed research, they have built up the largest existing collection of data on the military regimes of South America, which has brought them death threats and the ransacking of their offices. |
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However, because of the lack of military discipline, the insurgents soon fell into robbing, looting and ransacking the towns they were capturing. |
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As the jihadis have seized more and more territory, ransacking previously safe towns, wave after wave of displaced people have fled, creating a looming humanitarian crisis in a country that anchors the region. |
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However, keep some jewellery of lesser value in your dresser drawer to fool burglars and keep them from ransacking your home looking for your hiding place. |
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I'm angry the Harper government has rushed into ransacking the democratic process to push through a free trade deal that will exacerbate the human rights crisis in Colombia. |
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This fearsome organisation at the disposal of the president does the government's dirty work, typically ransacking media offices, making illegal arrests and arbitrarily throwing people in prison. |
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Today Rockefeller is ransacking the Nixon record to try to prove, before the Republican convention meets in Miami Beach in August, that Nixon is a born loser and will surely go down before Vice-President Humphrey. |
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According to eyewitnesses, police took the first offensive in violence to prevent the ransacking of the polling booths by the irate mob. |
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Kieft suggested that they be taught a lesson by ransacking their villages. |
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At the time of his creation, Vikings were ransacking England. |
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