Sentence examples for taking to pieces from inspiring English sources

So we have the picture of a kind of intellectual taking to pieces of ideas or concepts; the discovering of what elements a concept or idea is composed and how they are related.

Those deputising for them – Harriet Harman, George Osborne and Vince Cable – are being taken to pieces.

It leaves its hero bitter, caustic, crippled — "one of those people taken to pieces by his times".

Child is not in the least concerned about seeing his novel taken to pieces and stuck back together again as a film.

Consequently a great deal of furniture is made of the "knockdown" type; that is, it can be taken to pieces and stacked flat.

The bad news: Aalborg have dropped the hapless left-back who Shaun Wright-Phillips took to pieces in the first leg.

As the ramifications of the judge's sexually promiscuous past spread, his peace of mind, his health, his home and his family are all taken to pieces.

Hats were soon taken to pieces and crowns were taken from brims to give them a more fashionable shape.

Then, more often than not, it is put on a tabletop, taken to pieces and the repair work begins.

Rather, in this novel "the language of morality has been examined, picked up, turned over, taken to pieces.

Neptune spent three years in this role, and was finally taken to pieces in October 1818.