noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bank robber/robbery
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The bank robbers were never caught.
armed robbery (= stealing using a gun )
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She got ten years in prison for armed robbery .
commit a robbery
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She later admitted committing the robbery.
murder/robbery etc rap
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The kid’s been cited twice on drunk-driving raps.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
armed
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The amnesty did not include those accused of offences relating to drugs, murder, economic sabotage or armed robbery .
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He says he was captured by armed police and was probably planning an armed robbery .
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The rates of rape, armed robbery , etc would probably not fall very much.
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Last summer he was placed under a supervision order after being found guilty of burglary, armed robbery and car theft.
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Detectives are linking it with a series of recent armed robberies , and warn the men could inflict serious injury.
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The defendants faced charges arising from three murders, three armed assaults and 32 armed robberies committed between 1980 and 1986.
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Two men are accused of murdering the informer to stop him giving evidence at an armed robbery trial.
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The defendant argued that any liability which he had, extended only from his breach of duty until the armed robbery .
attempted
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He was found guilty of murder and attempted murder and admitted two robberies and one attempted robbery.
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Facts: pleaded guilty to two offences of robbery , one of attempted robbery and two of assault with intent to rob.
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His car had been damaged at least six times and he'd moved his double glazing factory because of three attempted robberies .
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Joseph, of Bow, east London, was given probation at the Old Bailey yesterday for attempted robbery .
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He also admitted two other robberies and one attempted robbery.
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Facts: convicted of attempted robbery: pleaded guilty to two further offences of robbery and one of indecent assault.
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He admitted eight robberies between May and July and asked for two others and six attempted robberies to be taken into consideration.
guilty
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They conclude that the defendant was probably guilty of robbery .
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James Duncan Fleming was tried twice; at his second trial he was found not guilty of attempted robbery and felony murder.
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Corry also pleaded guilty to robbery and having a gun.
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Facts: pleaded guilty to robbery , having a firearm with intent and driving while disqualified.
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If the jury were to consider the handling account first they would reach the conclusion that he was guilty of the robbery .
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He was held not guilty of robbery because the threats were not made in order to take the money.
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Facts: pleaded guilty to robbery .
■ NOUN
attempt
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All of us will shudder with our colleagues on the receiving end of a nasty robbery attempt .
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An robbery attempt occurred at gunpoint.
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Gregory, 20, denies murdering Marion Rilka, 51, by slitting her throat in a robbery attempt at her home.
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Investigators have yet to establish a motive, but a failed robbery attempt is a likely reason, Moen said.
bank
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One major bank robbery had just come to trial.
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In 1979, President Carter commuted her seven-year sentence for bank robbery and use of a firearm in commission of a felony.
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He lent the group's activists a flat, and laundered the proceeds of their bank robberies .
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Stedeford, 27, was convicted in November of a bank robbery charge in Iowa and will be sentenced next month.
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Three people have been arrested after Britain's first alleged attempted online bank robbery was thwarted.
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Since then, both men have been sentenced to long prison terms for attempted bank robbery in Los Angeles.
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The jury earlier acquitted the three of two bank robberies in London, in which the families of managers were also terrorised.
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Williams had received the George Medal for saving three young children who were taken hostage during a bank robbery .
daylight
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Mind, you wouldn't believe some of the prices they charge up West, talk about daylight robbery .
highway
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At the end highway robberies , riots and an unspecified sense of comeuppance is what we are left with.
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The constable left in charge of Burford was reluctant to take any action, even when Seb reported the highway robbery at Swinbrook.
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This brother-in-law was eventually hanged for highway robbery .
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A matter of murder-more than one murder, highway robbery and probably the rape of a young girl too.
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She says it's highway robbery .
street
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It would also appear, particularly in relation to street robberies , that the law was rarely prosecuted with its full vigour.
■ VERB
arm
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In 1929, aged 19, he was sent to the Ohio State Penitentiary for armed robbery .
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The charges include armed robbery , distribution of stolen property, illegal gun sales and use, and drug trafficking.
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He will move to a women's prison for the final two years of his sentence for armed robbery in 1992.
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Before that he spent seven years in the Ohio State Penitentiary for armed robbery .
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In an agreement with prosecutors, she pleaded guilty to one count of manslaughter and two counts of armed robbery .
charge
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Judge Hart said Munn confessed all when interviewed by police but no-one else had been charged with the robbery .
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The three, who have not been named, have been charged with robbery and firearms offences.
commit
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They had their own ideas about who committed all the robberies in the area, and Oliver was unknown to them.
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Dixon later admitted committing the robbery , investigators said.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
daylight robbery
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Mind, you wouldn't believe some of the prices they charge up West, talk about daylight robbery.
highway robbery
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Sixty dollars for a textbook? That's highway robbery.
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A matter of murder-more than one murder, highway robbery and probably the rape of a young girl too.
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At the end highway robberies, riots and an unspecified sense of comeuppance is what we are left with.
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She says it's highway robbery.
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The constable left in charge of Burford was reluctant to take any action, even when Seb reported the highway robbery at Swinbrook.
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This brother-in-law was eventually hanged for highway robbery.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Robbery was believed to be the motive for the killing.
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He made two escape attempts while serving a sentence for armed robbery .
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I took part in my first robbery when I was only thirteen years old.
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In the first nine months of this year there were 9611 street robberies involving violence.
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Many travelers have been the victims of robberies on this road.
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Perkins was given five years in prison for robbery with violence.
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Police claim to have found the gun used in this morning's robbery of a downtown convenience store.
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The police are investigating a series of bank robberies.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A police officer was killed during the robbery .
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Could be one those females we never did catch up with, identify, on the early robberies.
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Dines is already serving thirty months at a young offenders' institution for robbery .
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His car had been damaged at least six times and he'd moved his double glazing factory because of three attempted robberies.
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In an agreement with prosecutors, she pleaded guilty to one count of manslaughter and two counts of armed robbery .
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One major bank robbery had just come to trial.
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The judge admitted the notes of interview and Francis was convicted of substantive offences of robbery .
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The rates of rape, armed robbery , etc would probably not fall very much.