It will be smashed because of this".
The windows of a councillor's house in Saffron Walden were smashed because the crowd believed he was harbouring two Germans.
She had been reading about the genocide in Darfur and was struck by a photo of a boy whose face had been smashed because of his ethnicity.
I also couldn't have spent the rest of today being smashed because I have a huge pile of work to get through: partly to pay for the Unbanana Experience and partly because work is arriving for assessment from the latest crop of Warwick creative writing students.
Specialists are painstakingly restoring dozens of Buddhas and other sculptures that were smashed because they were deemed contrary to Koranic law.
Is Lebanon's intricate, but hitherto intact, jigsaw about to be smashed into pieces because of what is going on in Syria?
Take Frank Tjepkema and Peter Van der Jagt's "Do Break" vases, which give new meaning to the idea of the crackled surface; they can be smashed or shattered but remain intact because of their silicone interiors.
I learn that momentum is the single most important thing, that the gearbox is crummy, that there's no windscreen because it would be smashed by rocks, that the absence of doors aids egress when it rolls over, that I need to beware of the whoop-de-dos and that dust is an almighty issue.
When you have meetings with pluggers, you don't want to say, "Yeah, this should be smashing it on radio", because you sound like a dick.
Some died from their wounds in vessels which lacked anaesthetics or surgeons or, very often, both; some drowned because lifeboats had been smashed into flotsam or because, after days or weeks adrift without food and water, they succumbed to insanity and threw themselves overboard".
