I mean, if it was just a simple burglary, that's one thing.

The case was simple burglary, the students told only that the suspect was 17 years old, no word about his skin color or ethnicity.

We aren't talking about a simple burglary or an incidental murder, my Lord.

"A simple burglary," he told himself.

And it isn't any sort of simple burglary either.

Didn't it strike you as strange that half a dozen CIA men should bungle a simple burglary?

I pressed them, and was told that given the other problems attendant on Wild Card Day they haven't got time to worry about a simple burglary.

It could be a simple burglary and the thief may have departed hours ago, but she could not afford to take that chance.

But a simple burglary isn't enough fun.

It wasn't just a simple burglary.