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.
