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Margaret took advantage of the time to turn out the drawers of her desk, tearing up pieces of paper in a nervous compulsion to do something.

It's very easy to imagine Shaw or Pauline Kael tearing up the comment threads (and impossible to imagine Dwight Macdonald doing so).

It went on tearing up the grass and took no notice of him.

toxic secretions thick thick, was auburn, tearing up the rear in the air, easy to change color.

He was all tearing up. Ready to hug me.

Right at that very second. It was like the heavens heard my cry, and the angels were tearing up sheets of paper right along with me.

"It is like tearing up an invaluable painting and replacing it with a cheap print, " he said.

Firstly , entering a program will effectively involve tearing up the credit agreements you've signed with your creditors .

It was the reason that we always saw Haizi being painful, lonely, drunk, wailing, and tearing up many poetry manuscripts.

He was tearing up bunches of grass, beating them against his knees to clean them and stuffing them into his mouth.

He began by tearing up a large number of bushes by the roots.

McQueen recovered quickly, tearing up the field as he zipped back onto the track.

"I'm tearing up, " she said. "You never know when you're going to build your last fort. "

I used to Code Fearlessly all the time, tearing up everything whenever I had a thought about a better way of doing something.

One unconfirmed account says fighting began when a group of Sunnis confronted Shi'ites and accused them of tearing up a sacred Sunni flag.

I don't think she's the kind of werewolf that just likes to go around tearing up people.

I knew that strip mining was tearing up many scenic areas and that clear-cutting was causing widespread damage in the mountains.

Only after a developer has restored land it has already mined could it begin tearing up an area of equivalent size within the refuge.

I had to cover myeyes numerous times just to give my senses a break from the brutalimagery (even so, I found myself tearing up a few times).

Because I'm good, but I'm not good enough to talk about that without tearing up.

But he did but then he started tearing up everything and he started drawing in the blinds from the. . . ah the drapes into it.

were tearing up the road with a pneumatic drill.

In December Mr Abbott led the party's hardliners in tearing up the deal and then unseated Mr Turnbull.

The monkeys, or macaques, have been biting tourists at the famous Wat Phnom pagoda. They have also been tearing up Internet lines.

When tearing up his own unsatisfied poetry draft, Haizi's manner was furious.

Tearing up the social contract is something that should not be done lightly.

The camera zoomed in on audience members tearing up as well.

Linda Johnston fulfilled a lifelong dream to watch a launch, tearing up as the shuttle lifted off.

DC seeing YR has lost so much weight felt like his heart is tearing up.

How can it be so spicy? I am tearing up! The taste is too strong for me.

But as China's leaders ponder how to exert more influence abroad, they need to ask: "Is it really worth tearing up a winning strategy? "

North Korea is essentially tearing up the agreements that make the zone run.

Allianz's commitment to tearing up the allfinanz model is unwavering.

From the first day to meet you, I started tearing up, but the dragon does not say.

Tearing up decades of monetarist orthodoxy, it has been printing money to keep the financial system afloat.

Banks prefaced her comment by admitting, "How can I say this without tearing up? "

Andrew Feustel, an astronaut, got soap in his eye and started tearing up.

The python couldn't dodge these missiles and one by one the rocks began tearing up its body.

No you don't. Sigourney Weaver's hot! -Yeah, that's not bad. -You're tearing up?

Powell remembers her husband's doctors tearing up with joy.

You feds make a nice living, but not so nice. you go around tearing up expensive sod.

Crises, however, have a long history of tearing up well-thought out agendas.

"Thank you, " Bathurst says, tearing up. "This means I can make two more house payments. "

I was tearing up his clothes.

She is tearing up the ivories in heaven, I am trusty.

Uh-huh. -And why are you tearing up? -'cause my hair's gone.

For most, moving would be tearing up roots and trying to transplant them in new soil;

Tearing Up the Project Plans

The truth is tearing up my heart,

Tearing up. . . all your letters

ROADthe truth is tearing up my heart

Because it's tearing up my mind