Sentence examples for were blown open from inspiring English sources

The floodgates were blown open by prop Sam Moa from close range, followed by a double from Anthony Minichiello and efforts by Jared Waerea-Hargreaves, Shaun Kenny-Dowall and Daniel Tupou in a 20-minute blitz.

They would probably have never come to light had they not been revealed in the files of Gaddafi's intelligence chief Moussa Koussa (who became a close colleague of Sir Mark Allen, head of counter terrorism at MI6, later appointed a BP director) that were blown open by Nato-led air strikes in Tripoli in 2011.

The car is blown open by pressure.

"His face was blown open.

The living room wall of his apartment had been blown open.

What has been blown open, again, is how little we truly know.

At least four safes had been blown open in the building.

Police have arrested a man in connection with a raid in which a petrol station cashpoint machine was blown open by thieves.

Five years later, British literature was being blown open by writers whose names we couldn't even pronounce — Rushdie and Ondaatje and Ishiguro and Coetzee.

The row over the Government's "progressive" credentials and the fairness of the emergency Budget is blown open today with new research from the respected Institute for Fiscal Studies.

A woman stumbled through the wreckage, sobbing, near a car whose trunk was blown open to reveal a floral patterned baby seat.