Police can also take action if other offences, such as breaking doors or windows to gain entry or stealing electricity, have taken place.

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Friday, when the doors were unlocked, there were 2, 000 or so shoppers, many of whom "surged forward, " breaking the doors, he said.

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In the first place, the problem is not breaking down doors.

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Can they bust up the family fortune without the IRS finally breaking down their doors?

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They're breaking down the doors at the movie.

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Some ran right over his taxi and two other cabs parked nearby, breaking mirrors, windshields, bashing in the doors.

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