1.   A developer had stripped the house out and converted it into four self-contained apartments.

2.   But burglars forced a kitchen window while she was out and stripped the house of everything valuable.

3.   On their return home late at night, still trying to guess the identity of the unknown host, they found the house stripped of every article of value.

4.   The couple had to strip the house all the way to the walls, and they admit they nearly gave up.

5.   A man with a mallet pried off a window frame, stripping the house even of its fixtures.

6.   Also, the destroyed homes in Oklahoma seem to support the theory that a tornado strips a house in layers, working toward the center.

7.   Besides those few remaining residents, Ilijas was empty, and most houses had been stripped of anything that could be taken.

8.   But he quickly discovered that the house had been stripped by thieves.

9.   Fleeing Serbs have stripped houses of window frames, wiring and plumbing, torched some homes and destroyed several utility installations.

10.   Most houses were stripped bare, some were torched and several utilities were destroyed before residents left.