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    crime


    1. “He was at the crime scene and he started talking about how I should be on his show, like nothing ever happened, like everything was fine between us


    2. Toby’s dad would have said that Raj’s room looked like a crime scene


    3. ‘But it has really underlined to me how very premeditated the whole crime was … this isn’t a spur of the moment, loss of control thing at all


    4. It is not often that I see Stephen shaken by a crime – he sees too much of that sort of thing – but this has hit him


    5. "Such a pity it is a crime that will take me back to that beautiful country


    6. One of the few unarmed forces in the world, they had the utmost regard of the European superstar policeman; fighting a tidal wave of international organized crime with only their bare hands, hopelessly outnumbered, out-gunned and underfunded, technology from the stone age, forensics from the middle ages


    7. The crime occurred less than 10 hours ago so it was unusual that things should have been wrapped up so quickly


    8. The crime scene was directly on the other side of the wall and as the Garda Liaison officer had pointed out, there was very little to see


    9. Theo Petrakis was at the Sunnyvale crime scene when two burly figures ran up and boxed him in on either side


    10. ‘Have you lived here long, Stephen?’ I asked, dipping my brush carefully into the pot so that I don’t do what my father always said was the worst crime of all – coating the entirety of the bristles in paint

    11. Solve the first crime and it would lead him to the girl he was looking for


    12. Intimidating crime victims into speaking up for themselves and for others


    13. "Report a crime? A Crime? What crime? Mr


    14. He's usually into this kind of civic action, co-operation with the Gardai kind of thing, but I suppose he knew how serious this crime was


    15. "Well, they said they couldn't help us unless a crime had been committed and so far none had


    16. That he was an avenging angel, a super-cop who struck fear into the heart of organized crime


    17. "Even if Sammy is not involved in the crime we are investigating, we need to watch him for the crimes he is involved with


    18. "There is one kind of crime other convicts don't like to be associated with in prison


    19. Melinda had followed Theo's rise to stardom in the fight against international crime, but this was all he had? He expected her to take a giant professional risk that could blight her career while he nosed around the tattoo parlors of Darklow town?


    20. "They are always a good place to start for this type of crime

    21. This shared mingling of human substance gave me strength and, like a small bellows, fanned the flame of glowing anger that accompanied my slow investigation of the crime scene


    22. He shouldn't have said anything to Enrico, but then Enrico had admitted more to him hadn't he? Homosexuality was at least as important a crime as attempting to contact a wife


    23. She hoped her avatar (or should she just admit her crime to herself and call it her clone?) would hold them well


    24. Smith turned his gaze away from the chemical and physical experiment at the edge of what we now call the Milky Way, but he left the monitors on and the tapes running just in case he ever needed to put a face to a crime


    25. This was his real crime wasn’t it? It wasn’t just faking data from the whole expedition


    26. Intelligent crime on a huge scale with a demon in the detail; a high-powered, heavily-armed, luxurious schooner feeding world-wide drivelling greed, gagging for more and supplied on demand by ruthless slavering zeal


    27. He was still officially serving a sentence for a serious crime


    28. Convict a person based on actual crime


    29. This is the kind of hideous crime that propels


    30. as saying this is the sort of crime for which victims

    31. downs and slopping out, any mention of his sort of crime meant a


    32. You're not Amanda Amy Blake, so who are you? Have you committed a crime and use Amanda as a cover?”


    33. the crowd of Gypsies, ‘What crime have we


    34. Was the crime rate round here so very high? Andy wondered cynically as he surveyed the large, modern layout of the vestibule inside the building


    35. Lives blighted by either crime happening to them or being perpetrated by them


    36. The incidence of yob crime has gone down substantially since we set it up


    37. ‘I mean, no crime has been committed as such … well, other than that woman Sheila, and I take it no-one knows how she got hold of the stuff which killed her


    38. Though the chairman of the bird sanctuary wouldn’t agree with you about no crime being committed, Mr Middlesex – there was quite considerable damage done to the site and he’s up in arms about that


    39. committed the first crime of his life


    40. 'You seem to be ignorant of the fact that the crime of

    41. Though he could not forget or forgive her crime, Eve had still been helpful for the village of Trouble Valley


    42. to resolve this crime simply and without a mess was too


    43. had intended to let Godfrey hang for his crime, he might


    44. ‘How was his crime discovered?’


    45. Dogey was a crime broker


    46. crime excuses you from all pity, monsieur,’ he said


    47. What I did is a crime, dereliction of duty


    48. crime? I can only hope that it served some practical


    49. family, his friends – and his crime


    50. He reflected on his crime throughout the














































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    Synonyms for "crime"

    crime criminal offence criminal offense law-breaking transgression breach infraction contravention infringement violation trespass

    "crime" definitions

    (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act


    an evil act not necessarily punishable by law