Given enough time a burglar will tear into a house, ripping apart upholstery, breaking up cabinets and even tearing pictures from walls, looking for salable items.
When things stopped moving — the house ripped into pieces and shoved 200 feet from its foundation — Mr. McPherson found himself trapped.
"They tore down the house, ripped out the trees, and now they're going to put up one of these, these..."...
But Maria sent the sea crashing into their small house, ripping the cement porch to pieces and filling the inside of the home with a mountain of mud and debris.
Eve, who practically lives on the phone, hastily retrieves the instrument, then thinks twice and tosses it back to the insatiable pooch, who resumes his meal while she dashes around her fancy Los Angeles house ripping every phone and fax connection out of the wall.
So those early streetwear brands pretty much get a pass for house ripping.
None caused significant damage and only one fell on private property and into the corner of a house, ripping off shingles without causing structural damage, Harmon said.
I know this because I was sitting pretty with my roommates, in the living room of our house, ripping the shit out of X-Mas gifts.
Accustomed to working with some of the best Hollywood costumers, like Travis Banton and Jean Louis, who designed the nearly nude gowns for her Las Vegas shows, Dietrich often made seamstresses at Paris couture houses rip out seams until she was satisfied.
Whole neighborhoods had been submerged, their houses ripped clean off their foundations.
Cars had been rammed against lamp-posts or through the surface of streets, the sides of houses ripped off.
