Example sentences of "to pieces " in BNC.
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| 1 | — Now you shall see , but take this by the way — He came home this Morning at his usual Hour of Four , waken 'd me out of a sweet Dream of something else , by tumbling over the Tea-table , which he broke all to pieces , after his Man and he had rowl 'd about the Room like sick Passengers in a Storm , he comes flounce into Bed , dead as a Salmon into a Fishmonger 's Basket ; his Feet cold as Ice , his Breath hot as a Furnace , and his hands and Face as greasy as his Flanel Night-cap. — O Matrimony ! |
| 2 | What is required , he wrote , is to find an outlet for those energies , for those needs and desires , so that they do not turn inward and rend you to pieces , an outlet , he wrote , but never to imagine that what we do is ever going to be an everlasting achievement . |
| 3 | Actaeon is torn to pieces by his own dogs , but Ovid is not torn . |
| 4 | I mean , you must be thrilled to pieces , no ? |
| 5 | When the glider is desperately low the pilot 's handling often goes to pieces , and he may over-rudder in an effort to get round a final turn without touching a wing-tip or turning any steeper . |
| 6 | For , as Benedict ( 1967 : 12 ) implied , reflexivity in any dogmatic culture always presents the possibility that the whole scheme of things will simply fall to pieces . |
| 7 | I would not let him eat anything canned or frozen , I spoilt him to pieces . |
| 8 | How could they stick to it , though , once they were under a sergeant-major , a trained bully , lashed to a gun carriage and flogged to pieces ? |
| 9 | Finally , just try to wrench your trolley to pieces . |
| 10 | Take along a prosperous adviser on all shopping sprees , demonstrate a high degree of trust and strong reliance in what they say and you may have unexpected protection should the seller go out of business and the goods fall to pieces . |
| 11 | They would have been invaluable to the inquiry — and to the crew , as book and movie offers pour in — but were lost when the wreck was smashed to pieces on the island 's rocks . |
| 12 | They would blaze into prominence just as the foreground planting was falling to pieces . |
| 13 | Taff was blown to pieces in his trench earlier this evening , probably thinking he was safe a couple of feet or so below ground . |
| 14 | He tears his past life to pieces with the ferocity of the convert . |
| 15 | But most of the material was falling to pieces . |
| 16 | As the unashamedly extravagant Continental R in the most outrageous shade of red majestically revolved on the stand to an upbeat and immensely loud recording of ‘ Land Of Hope And Glory ’ the last thing on anyone 's mind was how the CFCs in the air conditioning were going to rip the ozone to pieces . |
| 17 | The media seemed to be willing the marriage to fall to pieces . |
| 18 | It was a curious evening , a backward look to pieces in which could be seen the seeds of the choreographic gift that was to develop , sometimes into epic stagings , in the years ahead . |
| 19 | The Soviet Union is falling to pieces ; a bloody struggle for those pieces can not be ruled out . |
| 20 | Gandhi walked towards a platform to begin his speech and was blown to pieces by a bomb , along with 14 other people . |
| 21 | Marshal Voroshilov , the man who helped Stalin cut the Soviet army to pieces in the 1930s , is described as ‘ the biggest bag of shit in the army ’ . |
| 22 | My mother , I 'm afraid , went quite to pieces after his death . |
| 23 | When she looked in the little round mirror , she saw that she was n't falling to pieces . |
| 24 | He wears the promises of God underneath his battle dress , and puts them in danger of being hacked to pieces with his own body . |
| 25 | After the stories of the last few chapters , since the point when the promises were first given , our confidence in Abraham 's reliability has been shaken nearly to pieces . |
| 26 | If in the end we wish to locate God in the destruction of Jericho , should we not search for him lying in the dust with the rest of his people of that city , like them hacked to pieces ? |
| 27 | The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces ; |
| 28 | Their views are readily recognizable in a world where the fuss about the Turin Shroud has reminded us of a time when high hopes and claims of miracle were commonly attached to pieces of the true cross or heads of John the Baptist , where much Christian literature promises believers great success in life if only they have enough faith in God , and where men and women of political power still try to have God and his Church on their side , and to use their authority to enhance their own . |
| 29 | ‘ I know but that feckless lot up at Claro had that grand , old house given an' they 've let it fall to pieces round 'em . ’ |
| 30 | Here 's a crusty roll — must n't show my ignorance and cut it with a knife , have to tear it to pieces as if it was my worst enemy . |