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Examples
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She was walking home from church in 1977 when a purse-snatcher struck.
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'Willing' amounts to a Scott Spencer blooper reel, and in it the language moves along with the undignified haste of a purse-snatcher in flight.
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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In March I caught a purse-snatcher who stole nekusagi's purse (30 points).
'Cause everyone's doing it. tragic_elegance 2008
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I am tired of being told that the people who perpetrate such acts are driven to it by the United States and merely need to be “understood” instead of stopped, sick of being told they should be treated like a purse-snatcher instead of a terrorist.
I Am A Tired American - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState 2009
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Silverstone wasn't believable kicking the ass of a purse-snatcher in the Aerosmith "Cryin '" video, so why should we believe it here?
Erik Lundegaard: Batman & Robin (1997): Why George Clooney is the Worst Batman 2008
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Please stand up in the Senate and say clearly and forcefully that this man upheld the strip search of a 10 year old girl and the police murder of an unarmed, teenaged purse-snatcher.
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In August I caught a purse-snatcher who stole bill_leisner's purse 30 points.
progress... michaelschuster 2005
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Perhaps it is the mounted police returning from their surveillance duties in Central Park, whose trees and bushes and dark, curved pathways may hide a purse-snatcher or an urban demon with unspeakable desires.
Celebrities Hardwick, Elizabeth 2001
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He once apprehended a purse-snatcher and another time saved a toddler from drowning in a lake.
Obsession John Douglas 1998
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He once apprehended a purse-snatcher and another time saved a toddler from drowning in a lake.
Obsession John Douglas 1998
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