Sentence examples for smashing them up from inspiring English sources

In fact, I had a series of cars, because I kept wrecking them and smashing them up".

'He'll be ripping out all the hard drives from the Downing Street computers and smashing them up with Alastair in the garden.' Because Jackson is a fantasist who makes things happen, this act - set to the Stranglers' 'No More Heroes' - will be the closing sequence to Blaired Vision, her forthcoming Channel 4 film about a decade of malfeasance at Number 10.

But rather than letting them lie there in their boxes, unloved and gathering dust, why not put them to good use by smashing them up and turning them into attractive animal sculptures?

Against New Zealand in November we were so hell-bent on smashing them up front to achieve forward domination we were committing seven or, occasionally, all eight forwards to the breakdown.

"He had about 20 television sets onstage," Wingfield recalls, "and at the end of the set he smashed them up, ripping his hands to shreds".

Nazif (Nazif Mujic) is a guy who scrapes a living as an "iron picker": he finds wrecked cars and smashes them up with his axe to sell the bits for scrap.

Evans, who has pleaded guilty to hacking charges related to periods as a staff journalist at both the NOTW and the Sunday Mirror, said he "sucked the ribbons" [magnetic tape] out of the cassettes, smashed them up, and dropped them into the company's recycling bins.

For his M.A. collection, in 2012, he encumbered his models with plywood-framed cubes and cylinders, and, the following year, for a catwalk show that drew baffled and derisive coverage from the British press, he bought wooden planks from the home-improvement store B&Q, smashed them up, painted them, and nailed them back together into unwieldy headpieces.

Hull took his aircraft above the bombers, then dived towards them, telling his pilots to "smash them up".

Obviously that didn't stop me going out and buying punk records and stashing them in my sock drawer, but invariably he would find them and smash them up.

Can't you take a joke, love?" Maybe we could never take a joke, we just pretended to, and the inequalities and assumptions and stereotypes got hard-baked into the stuff of life, making it ever harder to smash them up.