1 We must have been burgled while we were asleep.

2 I found that my flat had been burgled.

3 Thieves burgled the warehouse.

4 Our house has been burgled.

5 We were burgled while we were away .

6 Two teenagers burgled the home of Mr Jones's mother.

7 office, house, etc. - Our house was burgled.

8 Thieves burgled a bank last night.

9 We've been burgled three times.

10 We were burgled while we were on holiday.

11 After her house was burgled, she made a claim on her insurance.

12 My wallet was burgled.

13 If you're not insured and you get burgled, you have no come-back.

14 If your house has been burgled, you shouldn't touch anything until the police arrive.

15 He'd burgled the office.

16 By an unfortunate coincidence, their house was burgled on the day he lost his job.

17 There were far more profitable houses to burgle within a stone's throw of her own modest establishment.

18 Compare rob, steal and burgle.

19 He can trespass, he can burgle.

20 I arrived back to find that my room had been burgled.

21 On their return they discovered that their house had been burgled.

22 When they got back from their holiday they found that their home had been burgled.

23 When we finally got home, we found that we'd been burgled - but that's another story.

24 He could not see too much that could be done quickly about the criminals who travelled from Wearside and Tyneside to burgle.

25 A jemmy might suggest the murderer had gone to burgle the premises.

26 The police pills were harmless placebos. But a local gang had been using the same technique to give people heavy sedatives and then burgle them.

27 In future, as newspaper fade and change, will politicians therefore burgle their opponents' offices with impunity, and corporate villains whoop as they trample over their victims ?

28 Burglar alarm going off at any time of the day or night serve only to annoy passers-by and actually assist burglars to burgle.

29 He has also been plucked from a chimney where he became stuck while trying to burgle a house, and from the ceiling of a bank where he was pinned by a security device.

30 Burglar alarms going off at any time of the day or night serve only to annoy passers-by and actually assist burglars to burgle.

31 At night everybody would leave home with skeleton keys and shaded lanterns and go and burgle a neighbour's house.