How To Use Ransacked In A Sentence
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After posting a "sunny, bright, cozy loft" on the rental marketplace, the woman, who uses the pseudonym EJ, returned to find the apartment ransacked by a renter using the name "DJ Pattrson.
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Meanwhile, more religions are ransacked for metaphor than Joseph Campbell ever shook his shtick at.
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The gangs sold their booty, families tried to earn money from their belongings and neighbours ransacked the homes of anyone who had not returned from prison.
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York war veteran Joe Munday today spoke of his anger towards thieves who ransacked his house and stole his prized medals.
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The crooks prised out the kitchen window and ransacked the house.
The Sun
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They tied her to a chair in the nursery and then ransacked her house looking for cash and valuables.
The Sun
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He allegedly then ransacked the house, stole a gun from a safe, and fled in the homeowner's vehicle.
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A landlord who was tied up and threatened at knifepoint while balaclava-clad raiders ransacked his Brentwood pub has told of his horrific ordeal.
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I've ransacked the house for those papers, but I can't find them.
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Thieves had ransacked class seven, stealing exercise books belonging to Year Five children age 10.
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The robbers then ransacked the premises and stole £3,000 worth of cigarettes and a substantial amount of cash.
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Ransacked: Ania Cerelczak outside the gallery in Great Guildford Street Bungling thief drops mobile during ram-raid at gallery Robbers smashed their van into a London art gallery in a ram-raid that caused thousands of pounds of damage.
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The burglars ransacked the house but found nothing valuable.
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Burglars ransacked the house, taking £1,000 of jewellery, silver and china and the family heirlooms.
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‘When he went back into his home, he found that two rooms had been ransacked and the cash stolen,’ he said.
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So I set to and ransacked the lockers, where, amongst a vast variety of miscellaneous matters, I was not long in finding a bottle of very tolerable rum, some salt junk, some biscuit, and a goglet or porous earthen jar of water, with some capital cigars.
Tom Cringle's Log
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Housing estates have been burnt down, schools ransacked, shops looted.
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There has been lots of looting and lawlessness, with government buildings, hospitals, schools, libraries and museums ransacked.
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They tied her to a chair in the nursery and then ransacked her house looking for cash and valuables.
The Sun
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He knocked on the door and, when the woman opened it, he pushed her inside and ransacked the house, escaping with her handbag, purse and glasses.
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Twice burglars in my pay ransacked her house.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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The whole flat had been ransacked.
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I ransacked the house looking for my purse.
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Invaders from the south ransacked the town.
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The economy, ransacked by successive leaders, now teetered on the brink of collapse.
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Answering the siren call of Egypt once more, Amelia Peabody and her family arrive at their home in Luxor to learn of a new royal tomb ransacked by thieves.
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One witness said a police station in the central town of Kaolack had been ransacked, while state radio said the local headquarters of Wade's liberal PDS had been burned down.
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Because the Jets and Giants shouldn't be the only ones sitting at home getting fat this Sunday, we've ransacked the minds of some of NY's most esteemed chefs & barmen to bring you easy-to-make recipes packing flavors so explosive, you'll think Antonio Cromartie's tweeting about you.
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They smashed the windowpanes of the cinema, damaged the furniture and ransacked the canteen.
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They ransacked the house searching for a gun for almost 12 hours but it was not found.
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She ransacked the wardrobe for something to wear.
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Shortly afterwards her house was ransacked.
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They were ordered not to move or speak for an hour while the riot squad searched and often ransacked their rooms.
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The owner of a mail order lingerie business which was ransacked by burglars has spoken of her disgust at the intruders.
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Sadly, pathetically, while he was hospitalised his neat single storey home was broken into and ransacked in an obvious search for money.
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But when the Americans launched a withering counterattack the defenders sustained heavy casualties and were forced to abandon the town, which was subsequently ransacked.
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I kept my keys in a'safe' place and as a result my home was ransacked.
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The reopening of the embassy building comes four years after a mob ransacked it in a protest over Western sanctions.
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They smashed the windowpanes of the cinema, damaged the furniture and ransacked the canteen.
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Every room in their home was turned over and ransacked by the raiders in their search for valuables.
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She ransacked her house hunting for the ticket, before remembering she still had the play slip.
The Sun
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When he demanded £5,000 to cover the costs of his journey south, Cecil and Buckhurst ransacked the accounts and found no credits whatsoever.
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Then he bound her hands and ransacked the house, stealing what is believed to be a few hundred pounds.
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He was allowed home after one night, only to find his house had been ransacked in his absence.
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Young artists ransacked antique shops and archives to find spiritual nourishment beyond the groundwork that had been laid waste.
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When police failed to catch the burglar who ransacked her dying mum's home, Georgina Artingstall decided she would solve the case herself.
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I've ransacked the house for those papers, but I can't find them.
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But that relief would have quickly turned to a different flavor of alarm when the victims realized that Under the pretext of a drug search, the five-man robbery crew ransacked the Locklear home in search of large amounts of cash that could be "forfeited" - that is, stolen - as alleged drug proceeds.
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The whole flat had been ransacked.
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A SHOCKED great gran died after suffering a heart attack when she found her home had been ransacked by burglars.
The Sun
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Thieves ransacked the office, taking a sack of loose change.
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The subject firmly grips a ransacked, unfashioned garment secured by a simple-knotted line of inter-woven string.
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The shops have been ransacked, their steel shutters ripped away.
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After he finished violating her, he then ransacked the room stealing 1,000 baht in cash and other items before leaving.
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His Columbia University office was ransacked and he was subject to a seemingly endless litany of lies about his character.
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A library had been ransacked and shops looted.
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I've ransacked the house for those papers, but I can't find them.
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Attics were ransacked with uncustomary thoroughness.
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He discovered the house had been ransacked and his car taken when he returned.
The Sun
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The Police ransacked the village, killed 20 persons in indiscriminate firing, and set fire to two busses.
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So he sole out an 'went to whah dey was re - cruitin', an 'hired hisse'f out to de Colonel for his servant; an' den he went all froo de battles everywhah, huntin 'for his ole mammy; yes in - deedy, he'd hire to fust one officer an' den an - other, tell he'd ransacked de whole Souf -- but you see I didn't know nuffin ''bout dis.
A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It
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The shops have been ransacked, their steel shutters ripped away.
Times, Sunday Times
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Reuters filmed houses with their doors smashed in and ransacked by US troops as they searched for weapons.
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As one held him down and demanded to know where he kept his money, the others ransacked his home, pulling out drawers and emptying cupboards.
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They ransacked the whole classroom for their basketball.
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While we examined the formation, Furayj and old Sulaym, who became more and more "moony," ransacked the block in all directions, and notably failed to find a trace of mining.
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A total of 44 active boxes were ransacked.
The Sun
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And while Mr Stevens's bride was keeping a round-the-clock at his hospital bedside, burglars ransacked their home.
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His house in Berlin was ransacked by the Nazis. Einstein gave up his German citizenship in 1932 and became a naturalised American citizen in 1940.
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The wine cellar's been ransacked, the telly's gone missing and the plants are withered and smelling of pee, but apart from that, it's more or less how I left it.
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A few years earlier, when a Coast Guard cutter in hot pursuit of a Lake Erie rumrunner ran aground near Port Colborne, Ontario, it was looted and ransacked by a crowd of locals, its wiring cut, its cylinders filled with sand.
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She ransacked her house hunting for the ticket, before remembering she still had the play slip.
The Sun
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Shops all over the city have been ransacked for boots, basques, garters, stockings and suspenders and other distinctly racy garments by theatre-goers determined to join in the spirit of the gender-bending theatrical phenomenon.
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Europe was ransacked for copies of the long unused Latin classics and copyists multiplied them.
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I've ransacked the house for those papers, but I can't find them.
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The owner of a mail order lingerie business which was ransacked by burglars has spoken of her disgust at the intruders.
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As one held him down and demanded to know where he kept his money, the others ransacked his home, pulling out drawers and emptying cupboards.
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He ransacked drawers and cupboards in her room, but it is not known if anything was stolen.
The Sun
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Yet the swine who broke into and ransacked her home had not a moment's concern for her age or her condition.
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The flat looks rather like it has been ransacked by disgruntled burglars.
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When he recently tried to enrol at university in Kabul, he claims the security agencies ransacked his room.
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What should have been a difficult test for Ayr turned into a romp as the hosts ransacked their guests.
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I ransacked the cupboard for my ski boots.
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He noted the house had been doused in petrol after it was ransacked.
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His house in Berlin was ransacked by the Nazis. Einstein gave up his German citizenship in 1932 and became a naturalised American citizen in 1940.
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The three friends were then locked in a bathroom while the gang ransacked the flat, stealing mobile phones and other items.
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Dozens forced their way inside and ransacked the building.
The Sun
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The couple's holiday home was ransacked by locals.
The Sun
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The intruders grabbed 2,000 as they ransacked the house.
The Sun
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Shortly afterwards her house was ransacked.
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My bed shall be abused, my coffers ransacked, my reputation gnawn at; and I shall not only receive this villanous wrong, but stand under the adoption of abominable terms, and by him that does me this wrong.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
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They ransacked the whole classroom for their basketball.
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I have ransacked my thesaurus for a word that does justice to the terrible events that made up what history will know for ever as The Battle of Old Trafford, and I have come up with the mot juste.
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The thieving wine connoisseurs then ransacked the house, stealing laptops, wallets and jewellery.
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So when heartless thieves ransacked and stole decorations from outside his Netley home he was devastated.
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The thieves ransacked the living room but only stole a small amount of jewellery.
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Structuralism, semiotics, and later, psychoanalysis were all ransacked for help in understanding how a film achieved its effects.
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The couple's holiday home was ransacked by locals.
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They ransacked brick rubble lay strong strong and unyielding ( up ).
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The young man reportedly ransacked the house, destroying everything within his reach.
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The raiders broke into the community centre where the toddler group meets and ransacked four rooms, helping themselves to drinks and chocolate that had been bought for the tots.
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At least three people were killed as demonstrators ransacked the national assembly and other government buildings.
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The economy, ransacked by successive leaders, now teetered on the brink of collapse.
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A SHOCKED great gran died after suffering a heart attack when she found her home had been ransacked by burglars.
The Sun
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He discovered the house had been ransacked and his car taken when he returned.
The Sun
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Thousands of demonstrators ransacked the embassy compound, tearing down the large US seal on the front of the chancellery building and setting fire to vehicles.
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Shops were ransacked and traders were killed where they worked.
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Dozens forced their way inside and ransacked the building.
The Sun
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Earlier the court heard that police found the flat had been ransacked and there were bloodstained footprints in the hall.
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Property of the targeted man was ransacked, and a police sergeant was hospitalised after being hit by astone.
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I then ransacked the studio for a cardboard box that I could turn into a cigarette box and happily, my prayers were answered in the shape of an empty box of A4 paper.
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So the crowds ransacked the house.
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I'm guessing he's in Sirius 'room at Grimmauld Place because the room looks like it's been ransacked.
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Rich came running up behind me, his expression darkening as he took in the ransacked tent.
The Children of the Lost
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The attics will be ransacked, the old turntables and cassette decks will be dusted down.
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There are a lot of funny stories about that guy, actually… He used to run his own scroggin the New Zealand term for a mixture of fruit and nuts business a while back, but the little factory he had at his house got ransacked by a flock of wild birds.
Buzzine » Kids in Caves
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Mr. Robinson claimed the house was ransacked with furniture either destroyed or stolen - among these goods, a TV, coffee table, hallstand and ornaments.
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Mobs assaulted any black person they saw on the street, ransacked and burned homes in African-American neighborhoods, and looted stores owned by blacks and “sympathetic” whites.
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The burglars ransacked the house but found nothing valuable.
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When he recently tried to enrol at university in Kabul, he claims the security agencies ransacked his room.
Times, Sunday Times
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The place was ransacked and the papers boxed up and stolen.
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The crooks prised out the kitchen window and ransacked the house.
The Sun
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Mr. Robinson claimed the house was ransacked with furniture either destroyed or stolen - among these goods, a TV, coffee table, hallstand and ornaments.
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In another instance, a family with young children was barricaded into a room while a gang ransacked the house.
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Shops were ransacked and traders were killed where they worked.
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A library had been ransacked and shops looted.
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He was allowed home after one night, only to find his house had been ransacked in his absence.
Times, Sunday Times
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They went through the couple's kitchen cupboards, tipping the contents onto the floor, and ransacked the sitting room.
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The raiders broke into the community centre where the toddler group meets and ransacked four rooms, helping themselves to drinks and chocolate that had been bought for the tots.
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Thieves ransacked the office, taking a sack of loose change.
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The intruders grabbed 2,000 as they ransacked the house.
The Sun
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Police are urging motorists to wipe personal details from the gadgets or risk having their homes ransacked.
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The woman ransacked the house for her lost jewelry.
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They ransacked two government offices, stealing furniture and torching it at a traffic intersection.
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He claimed the proceedings were a sequel to the 1991 raid in which his home had also been ransacked but which had been illegal as an invalid warrant had been used.
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Police are urging motorists to wipe personal details from the gadgets or risk having their homes ransacked.
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Four months later, on the night of her 83rd birthday, burglars ransacked her bedroom as she slept heavily after taking a sleeping tablet.
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I kept my keys in a'safe' place and as a result my home was ransacked.
Times, Sunday Times
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A total of 44 active boxes were ransacked.
The Sun
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The defence claimed her aunt was viciously beaten by a burglar who ransacked the house.
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The gangs sold their booty, families tried to earn money from their belongings and neighbours ransacked the homes of anyone who had not returned from prison.
Times, Sunday Times
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He says he has lost friends, had his house ransacked, had his taxes audited and been publicly vilified for his outspokenness.
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Twice burglars in my pay ransacked her house.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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So the crowds ransacked the house.
The English Civil War: A People's History
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His house in Berlin was ransacked by the Nazis . Einstein gave up his German citizenship in 1932became a naturalised American citizen in 1940.
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A SHOCKED great gran died after suffering a heart attack when she found her home had been ransacked by burglars.
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