There was another new world and different things were being pulled to pieces.

I felt like my very identity was being pulled to pieces.

The room was empty, but the bed had all been pulled to pieces.

We'd have been pulled to pieces before we got there, that's all.

I'll rather risk all upon a cast, than be pulled to pieces by degrees.

All the time the others sat late into the night Matthew lay on the rack pulled to pieces.

They're only common; but they're good enough for her to pull to pieces.

They'd never think of pulling to pieces one of their own pictures.

Rather, it's the story of a girl who's trying to grow up without being pulled to pieces by conflicting loyalties.

"It will pull to pieces the profit models of their competitors," Williamson says.

Sturdy though it is, the book will probably be pulled to pieces by toddlers, thus the 3-and-up designation.

Have to be pulled to pieces first!

Hardly a week goes by now when some constitution somewhere in the world is not hauled off to a political chop shop and pulled to pieces.

All the roofs were intact, not one of them had been pulled to pieces; so my bailiff had told a lie.

A white rose joined its fallen brethren, pulled to pieces by fingers that trembled pitifully.

In another instance a Chinaman was pulled to pieces in the street by horses hitched to his arms and legs.

My father professed holiness, and the environment was such that I felt as if I were being pulled to pieces.

Make a noise on your face as if you was being pulled to pieces an' that all that holds you is will-power.

It was unlike Duckworth to be so positive about anything until he could support his own theory without much fear of having it pulled to pieces.

New recruits are often stunned as pieces are systematically pulled to pieces and reassembled.

Pulls to pieces for crying (5)

Collate, note imperfections, pull to pieces.

After judgement had been pronounced, the dossier was given back to Mercier, who had it pulled to pieces, and later on destroyed the biographical notice.

If a haunted house were pulled to pieces, it would stop being haunted, even if it were built up as accurately as possible again.

Outplayed by Wigan in the second half last weekend they were pulled to pieces by Spurs in the opening exchanges on Thursday.