tear away
tear off

It was as if part of himself had been torn away.

The thought was torn away by new pain in his head.

Beyond the picture a section of wall had been torn away.

A second or two and that hand would tear away whatever it held.

The band and back of the watch had been torn away.

His brother's family was wonderful, but their future had been torn away.

But a good part of that division has been torn away.

I haven't seen the master go tearing away like that in weeks.

To Elizabeth she wrote that life seemed to have been torn away.

But everyone's attention had been torn away by the sound of the screaming.