Voorbeelden van ripping

• In a corner, one of the musicians, barefoot, was ripping various things into shreds, searching for (and finding) the sound of breaking bones.

• I do not believe that if hunting were banned they would suddenly go out and start chopping down trees and woods, and ripping up hedgerows.

• I find, as does my council, that we can no longer acquiesce by our silence in abysmal service failure and ripping off the travelling public.

• I could give a long catalogue of our troubles with private firms selling us double glazing and ripping us off into the bargain.

• Petrol companies are ripping off service stations which are contracted to them.

• It is the ripping off of public assets by a combination of greed and incompetence.

• Or the blight caused by opencast mining ripping apart the environment.

• One week he might be ripping coal at a reasonable rate of pay and another week he might be machine-minding.

• It is said that this justifies the ripping up of settled trusts.

• Certainly we have no plans for ripping up the country to build another motorway.

• It was a new machine then, called a middle-jib ripping machine.

• We need tenants' rights and local control, but we do not need private cowboy builders ripping off the public.

• They are ripping off the taxpayer while providing inadequate housing.

• I find that people are outraged by the idea that some claimants are ripping off the system.

• None the less, we have to accept that criminals are not only ripping off the taxpayer, but financing further criminal activity.