Assertion: pickpocket | /r/HasProperty | shown into a police-office
Facets:
value: much
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The waiting-rooms of that Department soon began to be familiar with his presence, and he was generally ushered into them by its janitors much as a pickpocket might be shown into a police-office; the principal difference being that the object of the latter class of public business is to keep the pickpocket , while the Circumlocution object was to get rid of Clennam.