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    1. We rob God of His literal meaning when we say and think these things


    2. Better ring Rob now while I’m still thinking about it – ‘Hi Trish! Congratulations on your engagement


    3. I wonder if Rob and Trish could get away from the hotel … perhaps we should have it midweek – Saturdays are their busiest day


    4. I’m not at all sure what Rob will say when I tell him


    5. Talking to Rob has shaken me


    6. I’m sure I saw a loaf in the kitchen earlier, but Rob laughs,


    7. ‘That is a brilliant idea, Rob


    8. Rob sticks his head round the door, ‘You okay, Mum?’


    9. Rob is obviously keen to treat me, and I enjoy the experience of letting him do it


    10. ‘Oh Rob! Do you really think she’s that bad?’

    11. Rob flaps his hands at both of us as if to wash his hands of two such romantic idiots!


    12. Over dinner, Rob talks about how the hotel is doing


    13. I thought that I would feel awkward when it came to bedtime – I’ve never gone to bed with a man when Rob has been around but when it comes to it, there is no embarrassment


    14. Rob is sleeping on the futon in the office and takes Sam and her basket in with him


    15. ‘She waited for you, Rob


    16. Rob looks at me, ‘What are you going to do with her?’


    17. Rob goes off to use the telephone


    18. ‘I’ll be fine with Rob, darling


    19. Rob returns to say that Trish would like a quick word with me,


    20. She assures me that she can cope and again asks if Rob is all right

    21. We have a fairly subdued but substantial breakfast together and decide that Rob and I should get on the road fairly soon


    22. While Rob showers and dresses, I get a few minutes with Simon alone


    23. Together we all go round to the back garden where Rob is digging a hole under the tree in the back corner


    24. Rob insists on washing up while I go and ring Simon


    25. ‘I expect that will be Jane – she’s Simon’s sister in law, Rob


    26. I explain that Rob is with her and that they’re going to bury Sam in the garden


    27. Oh, she said that Anna was okay and that Rob is staying until tomorrow morning, so it looks as though your assessment is correct


    28. I always found it useful when Rob came home after a day on the hills – it limited the range of the mud! I had them put in about twenty years ago but had to replace the shower unit a couple of years ago, so that is quite modern


    29. Anna outlines her plans – ‘We’re looking at late morning at the moment, on the basis that we can have a lunchtime reception together and then Simon and I can go off to Dartmoor with Rob and his family


    30. Our guest list is very short – Peter and Jane, Rob, Trish and Leo, Jo and Alastair, Sally and her three children, Gary, Mel and her husband Andrew, Claire and her other half and a couple of Simon’s cousins he is particularly close to

    31. I started working for the firm just after Rob and I moved here and, after a couple of years, became Gary’s secretary … we have worked together for nearly eighteen years


    32. We manage it with five minutes to spare and are downstairs in the lounge when Rob arrives


    33. Rob smiles broadly, doubtless contemplating the effect it would have when he did


    34. Rob proudly hands over his mother to Simon who takes her hand as though it were a precious gift


    35. Rob and Trish are busy putting Leo into his seat in their car and he’s protesting at the imposition


    36. Vices that Rob the being:


    37. A name for him … she tries a few – John … Rob … Wayne …Matt … - all seem wrong somehow


    38. Rob feels very protective towards me and worries, which is why I don’t tell him when I have a problem


    39. Rob, his long arm wrapped around Beth's narrow shoulders sat at the front of the table, with their eyes glued on the girls also, but a slight fear filling their faces


    40. After watching the girls for a moment, Emma understood why Rob looked as if he were protecting Beth from some undefined terror

    41. For Rob it was the clean environment, and even sarcastic Mike commented with a touch of excitement about how Mrs


    42. Thankfully that’s just what happened, first Beth and Rob, Then Alex, suggested that they wouldn't take much to repair, and be livable


    43. When he appeared at the door, He wasn't alone, Rob and Alex, were right by his side


    44. "I don't know what you’re talking about," Rob inserted "But it really would be safer in the morning


    45. Again, she fumbled with the keys for a minute before Rob snatched them from her and headed for the back door saying, "I'll take care of it Em


    46. "What if it's out of business?" Rob asked, with a mouth full of sandwich


    47. She wasn't destined to find out that afternoon, Rob come barging in at just that instant, asking if he’d placed the furniture up stairs properly


    48. She had to leave the subject unanswered; worried that Rob already suspected something was going on between the two of them


    49. If she threw in the towel, she’d be wiping out any hope of Beth and Rob, getting that second chance they’d dubbed this


    50. retaliated when she tried to rob you – it was only natural














































    1. I robbed you, stole from you what you stole from me


    2. We tend to look more at the spiritual aspect in our modern Christendom, and have therefore robbed ourselves of the full meaning and intention of God


    3. By and large, the phrase “Kingdom of God” has been spiritualized, and therefore we have robbed ourselves of the very content necessary to progress toward the end time purposes


    4. before she was robbed of her sight


    5. The innocence of childhood has been robbed


    6. was himself robbed by the bandits we encountered


    7. Even he was robbed in Paris and


    8. thieves in Paris, and that himself was robbed


    9. There was one thing at least now and that was I did not throw up every time one of my shots killed someone or I looked at piles of corpses for the peninsula had hardened me to death and robbed me of my innocence


    10. robbed me of Appetite

    11. The immortal cities were considered safer than the mortal castles and holds, the pay was better, and the chance of being robbed or murdered on the streets after dark was minimal to almost impossible, so it was a great honour to be chosen as a mortal servant in Nordhel


    12. Then I saw the stretcher bearers begin to crawl out to collect the wounds and I knew that Smith and Stanley would be amongst them and I decided that I would take care of them now before they robbed anymore corpses


    13. He felt betrayed, robbed of something rightfully his


    14. Therefore, Julien robbed the rich of information to pass on to the needy


    15. The Governor's smart coup in arresting all the chief men, had robbed the warriors of their leaders; and the open failure of the fetish power had demoralised them thoroughly, but every precaution had to be taken


    16. Vandewater of the 71st, led to an infamous charge, made by certain cowardly volunteers, that the two chaplains had robbed dead bodies as they lay on the field


    17. We suspected we were chasing terrorists for they were armed with AK47 assault rifles according to the witnesses at the robbed shop


    18. Secondly, the Rhodesians also placed a signalling device in a small civilian FM radio which after being stolen by the terrorists as they robbed a store gave a signal to home on to


    19. * There is also a rumour that poisoned clothes were left at the shops to be stolen by the terrorists when they robbed the place


    20. He was simply robbed

    21. By means of water, an enemy may be intercepted, but not robbed of all his belongings


    22. It was nice to see that her earlier life had not totally robbed her of modestly or some kind of innocence


    23. He was nervous himself and didn’t want to listen to any more of Patty’s tizzy-fits about what Sylvia was gonna do when she found out they’d robbed her safe


    24. Anyone moving by truck or automobile was certain to be stopped by the partisans, usually robbed and sometimes killed


    25. He felt almost violated; robbed of his right to discover, experience, and learn anew


    26. Then Truman and his girlfriend (the one who had robbed Sylvia) had escaped – with his cocaine! He spun his Rolodex to Carlos, and dialed the Bluefields home number


    27. And among them stood a gray robbed man


    28. After a few minutes of conversation, Quan returned to his seat looking like he was just robbed at gunpoint for everything he had


    29. Monitored—or robbed of free will


    30. 8 For, said Hushai, you know your father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed

    31. They were momentarily robbed of normal inhibition and balance, so it


    32. He grinned and returned the beans to me, congratulating me on not being robbed by the merchants


    33. 61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me, but I have not forgotten your law


    34. “What’s been robbed?”


    35. “The records room has been robbed, dumb ass


    36. The old records room safe has been robbed


    37. “There was a call made just before the explosion saying the records room had been robbed


    38. on her treasures; and they shall be robbed


    39. robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die


    40. burn the weapons with fire, and they shall spoil those who spoiled them, and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord God

    41. I found out that the Yuliya gang definitely robbed my office


    42. “So far I’ve had a gunman break in on a Saturday afternoon, my secretary was assaulted at gunpoint, my place was robbed, I was shot at, and my assistant was beaten senseless


    43. and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts; But you said, How shall we return? 8 Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me;


    44. But you say, how have we robbed you? In tithes and offerings


    45. 9 ^You are cursed with a curse, for you have robbed me, even this


    46. “Before I left to come over here, Detective Shamansky called the 7/Eleven to find out if they have a surveillance system, and guess what? They got robbed three times last year so they put cameras on the parking lot to record the faces of robbers before they put on their ski masks,” I said


    47. the darkness; and when he has stolen, spoiled, and robbed, he bring it to his love


    48. Hill, where are your belongings? were you robbed?”


    49. We’re being robbed by friends of yours


    50. It seemed so natural to him now but once again he was robbed














































    1. majestic ways, robbing you of the possible blessing in disguise


    2. My friends and I were robbing a store and the police arrived on the scene and


    3. Promise me that you will take care of those corpse robbing shits and that you will be careful


    4. “That’s not true Sir those bastards had been robbing the dead robbing our fucking lads Sir I just shot them out of hand as they deserved


    5. “Can you prove that they were robbing the dead in fact can you prove anything at all against them because if you can’t then I don’t think we should fetch it up that you shot them


    6. ” I looked over at him and knew he was right the possessions they had stolen would be long gone and I couldn’t prove that they had been robbing anyone or that they had shot Bert


    7. "He was robbing the King's jewels," cried another


    8. More seriously a “blue light” gang started to cause a lot of problems by imitating the detective's unmarked cars and pulling off the public with stolen blue lights and then robbing them or the car of both


    9. And My decrees, binding cords robbing you of your freedom


    10. I still blame them for robbing us of our kills

    11. But, the truth was that, they were busily robbing the government by submitting phony projects


    12. So right away, I start worrying that maybe his plan includes robbing our next load too, so I ask what she knows about cocaine shipments and the whore starts in talking about your nigger boyfriend


    13. It’s a simple choice when you’re dealing with someone who’s robbing your shit: us or them, no matter if they’re broads or not


    14. Even the little whore that he’d invited to free party after free party and treated like a princess had stabbed him in the back, robbing his shit


    15. We must stop robbing ourselves of the carelessly cast-aside talent that could be the means of our very survival


    16. ‘The only condition is that you stop robbing people,’ said Russell


    17. These things were already robbing her sleep at nights and causing her nightmares when she did manage to doze off


    18. about the recent rash of rail pirates robbing passengers and mail


    19. The north-men came like stinging hornets and spread on all sides like fearful wolves, robbing, violating, committing sacrilege everywhere, ripping and slaughtering my flock of virgin scholars! Alcuin -- behold with pity and tears the shrine of Saint Cuthbert, spattered with the blood of the brides of God, stripped of its ornaments, trampled by the polluted steps of pagan fiends, within fire-black walls once graced by Northumbria's finest art! A place more venerable than all in England was the prey of pagan wretches


    20. prison, what with their life style of mugging, robbing, stealing,

    21. Nelson, was in jail for robbing rich folks in Chicago


    22. Word on the streets is he’s got a lot of dough stashed away somewhere…something about his old man robbing a Brink’s truck years ago and burying the money in a secret place


    23. Wake up Oh Christian! The thief is robbing your house!


    24. Robbing Peter to Pay Paul-The Fall of Primary Care and the Rise of Technology


    25. Puerto Loco already had plans of just robbing Loosey and letting it go because he really didn't want any heat from King Tye but after Ashon made the proposal that they could get King Tye and take his crown, Loco made other arrangements


    26. In a house, it's all nicely stored and convenient, ready for robbing


    27. for his death, for robbing her son of a father


    28. He had been accused of robbing from the poor, his goons were causing hell round Delhi


    29. I just remember that I was so disgusted watching people robbing cars because many did not have any windows and robbing electronic stores and clothing stores and filling up bags of goods with no remorse


    30. She came here seven years ago, and since then she’s worked her way to being the top gang of the Underworld here; beating up everyone else, robbing, even killing

    31. If someone is found guilty of robbing the people, not only should he be put in jail – have fun with Bubba, dude – he should also be made to restore to the victims whatever was stolen


    32. The effect was like walking up the down escalator blindfolded, then she’d bond with me by sharing insights about the difficulties of teaching in general, which were the other side of the coin most apprentices had in learning: Jokingly, but not, she said whereas I had to get my self-importance in check, she had to kick-start her ruthlessness, because she was robbing me of learning opportunities


    33. 'I feel like we're robbing the place'


    34. Steve Brouwer – Robbing Us Blind: The Return of the


    35. “Boiler Room”, or by robbing someone of their possessions or his or her identity


    36. Actually the authorities concluded later that the blood came about when Leva accidentally smashed his head with a hammer while robbing a church


    37. " Though, through her comments, Mitchell could only see the image of the three men nonchalantly trotting to their tiny green car that fateful night, after robbing his home


    38. sometimes will retype the URL web address without the extension robbing


    39. I’m robbing you and want all the cash you have hidden in the room


    40. Breathed in a chest full of foul air, courtesy of the gang that did the actual robbing

    41. Since this photo was taken, she and her gang have pulled fourteen bank jobs and jewel heists, including robbing Mr


    42. The story was chilling, he and his accomplish were robbing the tourist’s


    43. when they were thinking about robbing the joint


    44. Perhaps find other ways of benefitting society rather than simply robbing his employers


    45. “It’s a good thing grave robbing needs to be done at night, or this could have dissolved in my hands


    46. ‘Sorry,’ said Tara, taking leave at length, ‘for robbing the hosts


    47. Now tell me, by taking my cut, am I not just robbing the robbers


    48. Won’t seducing her man amount to betrayal? Well, if I develop qualms on that count, won’t I end up in the doghouse of guilt? After all, I’m not for robbing her joy by grabbing him all for me, isn’t it? What’s wrong then, if I share his affection with her? Isn’t it fine, given our lesbian connection, won’t extraordinary situations call for extraordinary solutions? Why not we three engage our love in a round robin of ardor?’


    49. This was a plan to keep thieves from robbing cab drivers


    50. He considers raising a child before robbing him down on sex











































    1. They’re left with chronic pain and limited function that robs them of independence


    2. the fool that robs another's needs


    3. Reduce the business junk mail that robs you of time and energy9


    4. Yet, I am normally against this procedure that robs a cat of its essential joy and defense


    5. Being in the water for too long robs your skin of what little moisture it can hold onto


    6. “Its not just corpses and not just Germans he robs off the living as well he also robs our boy’s corpses as well


    7. No one comes near us or robs a caravan of Uzbeks camels


    8. The simulation is using her vocal cords, but robs them of the natural fluctuations of human emotion


    9. Whoever robs his father or his mother, and


    10. then, and still do every day, that fear robs me of fulfillment in life

    11. God’s election robs mankind


    12. And robs me of my rest


    13. From this verse we understand that the idea of the thief is one who robs us of our


    14. nearly a quarter of the way through our lives, it robs us early on of the


    15. The parasite doesn’t kill them, but it robs them of the necessary nutrition that the brain needs to develop greater cognitive abilities


    16. Besides, in time, the fear of exposure, imparts dullness to their sense of excitement, and that robs them of the thrills on the frills


    17. A winning smile robs us of all our powers of judgement


    18. „who robs a thief of his ration


    19. "We will go back into the crowd and give you a sign when blue coat robs someone else


    20. Today, if a thief robs a liquor store of 100 dollars, he can be put into prison for years

    21. If this Ten Dollar-a-Day Law were actually enforced… if plea-bargaining were outlawed… if the entire legal system were simplified and made more effective… Then… if a thief robs a liquor store of 100 dollars, he can be put into prison not for years, but for a reasonable time that makes sense


    22. The theology, which says a person is born with immortality, robs Christ of the


    23. The theology that says a person is born with an immortal soul in them that is deathless gives life to all and robs Christ of giving the gift of life only to all who believes and gives life to the soul that is in all even the worst sinner at birth


    24. Rubens was a painter who gloried in the unrestrained expression of the zeal to live and drink deeply of life, and glorious as much of his work is, and wonderful as it all is, the excessive use of curves and rounded forms in his later work robs it of much of its power and offends us by its grossness


    25. Missions of Christianity,—an exclusiveness which robs foreign: missions of their fitting share of attention and support


    26. Want of exercise robs them of cheerfulness, and too much devotion to that idol of American women, the teapot, makes them feel as if they were all nerve and no muscle


    27. Never a very diligent reader of newspapers, there were at that time reasons of a private order which caused me to be even less informed than usual on public affairs as presented from day to day in that necessarily atmosphereless, perspectiveless manner of the daily papers, which somehow, for a man possessed of some historic sense, robs them of all real interest


    28. of life robs use every instant of our charms, had, at that of mine, then


    29. please to recollect what I have beforesaid of my person, which time, that at certain periods of life robs use every instant of our charms, had, at that of mine, then greatly improved into full and open, bloom, for I wanted some months of eighteen


    30. It is absurd to suppose that you have two enemies, one of whom robs you, while the other threatens your life

    31. Both are childless, and he won’t leave the house to the National Trust, which he regards as some sort of communist institution that robs the wealthy of their property


    32. How can he love you when he knows you may be called away from him any minute? He would be a low fellow if he did! Will he have a grain of respect for you? What have you in common with him? He laughs at you and robs you--that is all his love amounts to! You are lucky if he does not beat you


    33. “It robs the body of its ability to transport oxygen


    34. And that robs all mankind of something precious


    35. robs his fellows there is no honor in him, he’s a scoundrel


    36. This robs the animal of purchase in its struggle to free itself and also helps to keep it out of reach of predators


    37. Nearer yet to town, you come to Breed's location, on the other side of the way, just on the edge of the wood; ground famous for the pranks of a demon not distinctly named in old mythology, who has acted a prominent and astounding part in our New England life, and deserves, as much as any mythological character, to have his biography written one day; who first comes in the guise of a friend or hired man, and then robs and murders the whole family—New-England Rum


    38. How can he love you when he knows you may be called away from him any minute? He would be a low fellow if he did! Will he have a grain of respect for you? What have you in common with him? He laughs at you and robs you—that is all his love amounts to! You are lucky if he does not beat you


    39. “No, he does not know it; they say to him ‘don’t steal,’ and he knows that the master of the factory steals his labour by keeping back his wages; that the Government, with its officials, robs him continually by taxation


    40. A rich landowner—not only in Russia, but in France, England, Germany, or America—lives on the rents exacted from the people living on his land, and robs these generally poverty-stricken people of all he can get from them

    41. One nation robs another—that other demands reparation—prevarication is the reply


    42. The marvelous adaptability of the American woman robs the situation of any difficulty, and in no way, so far, has the American wife of the Englishman showed more astonishing adaptability than in the cordial interest with which she often identifies herself with her husband’s political interests, if he is in Parliament


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    Synonyms for "rob"

    fleece gazump hook overcharge pluck plume rob soak surcharge cheat defraud deprive rook steal pilfer shop-lift pinch pillage knock over

    "rob" definitions

    take something away by force or without the consent of the owner


    rip off; ask an unreasonable price