Exempel på pocketed

• After an agreement between buyer and seller has been reached, one of them returns to the seller where a commission is pocketed and subsequently distributed among them.

• Is it not commercially unfair to change the goalposts when the money has been pocketed?

• The system surmounts the problem that had become serious whereby a growing number of people simply pocketed and spent the rent money handed to them.

• However, he has wrestled with his conscience and has gone round to the nearest pub and pocketed the cheque.

• He has been swindled out of approximately £100 and an unscrupulous maker has pocketed that sum.

• Within the course of the year he got together about £200,000 of deposits, all of which he pocketed.

• They have simply pocketed the money given to them by way of increased rents, money which should have been expended on repairs.

• One is pocketed, then we are told two or three years later that we must have another one.

• It would have pocketed the quotation and realised that it was downwards only from then on.

• The landlords simply pocketed the money which they formerly had to pay out in rates.

• The fact is that industry and commerce on that occasion just pocketed the money and left unemployment to stagnate as it was.

• Invariably, it was the political elite that pocketed the profits and placed these in foreign bank accounts during both eras.

• The values of democracy were distorted, unwarranted concession after concession was made, but as each was pocketed, new demands appeared.

• Most of the people who made the excess profits have pocketed them and gone; they will not be paying the tax.

• The profits derived from the sale of houses through improvement at the expense of public funds have then been pocketed by owners.