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Someone has torn two pages out of this book.
And, they've already torn up the garden.
The old houses were torn down to make room for a supermarket.
The poor dog was literally torn apart by the lion.
The house in which we lived was torn down.
I could not stand my house being torn down.
I had my thumbnail torn off.
Her dress was torn.
It may seem like Tom has forgotten all about the matter, but deep down inside, he's still torn up about it.
Tom and Mary had their old house torn down.
The house we used to live in was torn down.
Three pages have been torn out.
After the wall was torn down, Berliners could view the two sides of Berlin at once for the first time since 1961.
Who has torn the envelope open?
England was once torn by civil war.
Today young people find themselves, through no fault of their own, living in a world torn by international bitterness and the threat of nuclear destruction.
There used to be a fireplace here but I guess it's been torn down.
The cover of this book has been torn off.
The torn dollar bill passed through several hands.
The seat of my pants is torn.
I see a page has been torn out of this book.
My shirt is torn at the elbow.
Movie subtitles
The impoverished, petty, strife-torn kingdoms of Western Europe embarked on five centuries of uninterrupted expansion.
For weeks, doubts have torn at me, whether you love me or are just playing with me.
Perhaps some will say. that you should not be allowed to go yet. that you are too young, that you have homes, mothers, fathers. that you should not be torn away.
And I will have Carfax Abbey torn down stone by stone, excavated a mile around.
Now, then, let's have this impudent story torn to rags.
Are we any the less victims of the war than those whose bodies were torn asunder?
I saw your toga torn by daggers, wet with blood, your blood, my husband.
You, torn with doubts and me with my duty undischarged.
The gladiators didn't suddenly nip out for a tortellini. after the lions torn 'em up, did they?
Nobody at the Russell Square flat, everything torn up.
In May 1896, while I was chief of intelligence I received parts of a torn letter addressed to Esterhazy from the representative of a foreign power.
Some lie, torn with swords. Others lie pierced with arrows.
You've torn your coat.
I'm just trying to tell you, you've torn.
I've torn them out by the roots.
Now I've torn it.
Oh. Nobody at the Russell Square flat, everything torn up.
He is torn from your arms, the bridegroom of an hour.
I'm just trying to tell you, you've torn. - No, I didn't.
Yes, it was torn from that tree. Perhaps by something hurdling past.
That means it was torn off within the last few hours.
The lamp torn away, a glass of water knocked over.
Torn sheets I've got used to.
You won't let it get torn.
Before we could get at him Sir Hugo was dead his body literally torn to shreds.
Oh, well, I'll have it torn down. That's what I'll do.
Nick, this whole thing, it's torn our crew apart.
Friendships were being torn apart, and everything was getting messed up.
I'd have torn you from the clutches of that man.
Let me look, I might have ideas. It's all torn up.
Prunes every day for breakfast I don't mind. Torn sheets I've got used to. - But pants, I cannot swallow.
First of all, all the flooring must be torn up.
Like a man who's had his insides torn out and can't die.
Suppose you was torn away from your mother when you was just a baby nobody to tuck you in at nights no warm, soft, caressing' trunk to snuzzle into.
Gee whiz, honey, it's torn to ribbons.
News and current affairs
At a time when public debate in Israel is torn between pseudo-religious nationalist fanatics and anti-Zionists masquerading as post-modernists, the moral certitudes of Eban, for all their urbanity, may sound shallow.
We can dig into their family histories in strife-torn Dagestan, or examine, once again, the lethal appeal of Islamist radicalism.
The United Nations is torn apart by internal tensions.
The compact builds on the 2001 Bonn Agreement, which laid the framework for a democratic Afghanistan but left much to be done to overcome that war-torn country's tragic legacy.
Here, the feckless West - torn between its democratic rhetoric and its antipathy to the Islamists - showed its hand.
Yugoslavia's wars of the past decade provide ample warnings as to what may happen when a federal system is torn apart by resentment.
As a result, the Ethiopian-Somalia border has been war-torn for decades.
To the southeast is war-torn Syria, which has already disgorged almost 400,000 refugees into Turkey.
Ostensibly, President Bush has embarked on a new political and military strategy for the war-torn Iraq.
Institutions are torn down, property rights are called into question, and a random and ever more corrupt redistribution effort is underway.
President Charles Taylor's resignation from Liberia's presidency and his exile in Nigeria is not only a welcome relief for the war-torn land he so misruled, but also perhaps a bellwether for other discredited dictators.
The exodus from war-torn Syria should never have become a crisis.
BRUSSELS - The tragic exodus of people from war-torn Syria and surrounding countries challenges the world's reason and sympathy.
But it gave war-torn and desperately poor Europeans a positive vision of a new future, something that Greece and Cyprus, not to mention Middle Eastern and North African countries, desperately need.
Like its neighbors, Congo and Rwanda, Burundi is a war-torn land.
A country torn by sectarian violence beginning in 1975, Lebanon pitted an even more complex array of contestants against each other than Iraq does today.
The crisis-torn peripheral economies - Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Italy, and even Spain - are already in recession.
Yet this seems to be the distinctive operating style of Kirchnerism, torn between an elite born and raised in Patagonia, a few close allies, and everybody else.
Few of us in the developed world can fathom aggregate-output contractions on the scale that crisis-torn Asia suffered in 1998, let alone muster the political will to impose them on our economies.
This was another urgent trip by Ban to a war-torn capital, as part of his regular duties as the UN's chief representative, seeking to uphold peace and restore global comity.
Countries will be torn between retaining their security ties to the US and building new economic linkages with China.
If the political environment continues to develop in this manner, Greater Europe, torn by conflicts rooted in its past, will have to take a subordinate role on the global stage.
And globalization and new technologies have torn down the wall that for centuries separated the rich and prosperous countries of the North from the poor and underdeveloped countries of the South.
The initiative has met with some success, although it has not completely halted trade in diamonds from conflict-torn countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo.
All these cases of preemption occurred when China was weak, poor, and internally torn.
The ongoing exodus from Syria and other war-torn countries was long in the making, easy to foresee, and eminently manageable.
Arguably, the war in Gaza created a new kind of mutual deterrence in this war-torn region.