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To her great surprise, she fell through the roof, landing on her head, and the roof caved in on top of her.

He took over the firm in 1989, and promptly started expanding. Sales went through the roof, with store openings all over the country.

So when you step-up to that big-screen HDTV, you need to make sure that it's not going to send your electric bill through the roof.

That frenzy had been sending property prices through the roof, at least until the last couple of months.

Much of the past decade has been a commodities boom-time, with gold prices, oil prices and Chinese demand all going through the roof.

The mining industry has definitely experienced a demand shock, and prices, in nominal terms at least, are through the roof.

Public expectations went through the roof, just as the economy's capacity to meet them collapsed.

The sun shines through the walls from floor to roof, and through the roof as well.

There was much pain for the poorest. The cost of living went through the roof. The gap between rich and poor got wider, and stayed that way.

Billions of pounds have been spent propping up the banking sector - something which has sent government borrowing through the roof.

He claims to have escaped the Venetian prison by using a piece of metal to make a hole in the ceiling and climbing through the roof.

He longed to ascend through the roof and fly away to another country where he would never hear again of his trouble.

After a month -- although it took several tries to get there -- those improvements were all through the roof.

As a result of the early gene bombardment from mitochondria, the mutation rate surely shot through the roof.

Hillsborough County Fire Rescue workers used a rope to pull Jordan back out through the roof, after which he was arrested for burglary.

A family and three aircrew escaped unhurt after a police helicopter spun out of the sky and crashed through the roof of a house in Cardiff.

Worst of all, with public debt through the roof, the administration has failed to give the smallest sign of its exit strategy.

Consuming animal protein at the current rate has sent obesity, cancer rates and heart disease through the roof over the last 50 years.

As turkeys have been bred to better conform to what consumers want, sales have gone through the roof.

It appeared, at first sight, to be a lightning conductor, mounted on an insulator going through the roof.

But they do not necessarily expect prices to go through the roof.

As you try to make them work with each other, the complexity goes through the roof, and you have to do a lot manually.

Following the dramatic comeback against Spurs, team spirit must be through the roof and hopefully this will show on the pitch.

With the economy crumbling and public borrowing through the roof, Mr Obama had every excuse to slither away from healthcare reform.

Chocolates, cakes, candies. . . calorie intakes go through the roof over the holiday period.

Since 1985, Nike sales have jumped through the roof and Phil Knight (Nike's CEO) was not about to lose Mike that easily.

With the cost of gasoline going through the roof, not having to drive is important for everyone.

So even without US debasement of currency, the amount of buying of chinese middle class would send PMs through the roof. WOW. . .

If side effects were skyrocketing in the real world, wouldn't reports from doctors to the FDA be shooting through the roof as well?

Prices are very high After Playboy clothes became popular, their prices went through the roof.

Markets are full of cats and dogs, stocks of unprofitable companies that at some point fly through the roof, defying gravity.

Last night I saw a program about a bank, and they showed how you could break into it through the roof.

Kids' digital media consumption is going through the roof.

Prices have gone through the roof since the oil crisis began.

The pipe of fume hood should upward through the roof. There should be water pipe and water sink in the fume hood.

We are shoving that through the roof and when our buying dried up, the market collapsed.

I had deadlines and projects and people breathing down my neck, and my stress levels went through the roof.

And although oil and gas leases and permits on state and private land are going through the roof, on federal land they are stalling.

Once again, economies experienced credit crises, and debt-servicing costs went through the roof.

Unless China starts to revalue the renminbi, Chinese inflation may well go through the roof and do real damage.

Add a looming bankruptcy to the mix and stress levels for most dealers will likely be going through the roof.

A man who tried to rob a Texas store by entering through the roof got stuck upside down instead.

You will never be pleasantly surprised because your expectations, my expectations, have gone through the roof.

I eat two eggs per day and my cholesterol goes through the roof, you eat a five-egg omelette every morning and. . . nuthin!

In the 80s, Japan's bubble economy created unsustainable growth in Tokyo and property prices in the capital went through the roof.

What are the messages on the TV sets bursting through the roof?

As a result, YouTube is now the second largest search engine, and traffic is through the roof.

This barely moved my coffee cup, but it sent my nerves right through the roof.

They used waterproof cement to prevent water from seeping through the roof of the runnel .

They used waterproof cement to prevent water from seeping through the roof of the tunnel .

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But scalpers said that weekend prices are higher and holiday-time prices will go through the roof.

The decrease in hop production, put at some 50% over the past decade, has sent prices through the roof.

You're looking for growth opportunity -- it's just going up through the roof.

Inflation would go through the roof and the Greek economy would get worse and worse.

As a result, they bought insurance in the swaps market instead, driving Greek swap prices through the roof.

The euro's exchange rate is meanwhile shooting through the roof.

While property values go through the roof in China, the price of an important consumer staple is plunging: pork.

They are going through the roof earlier this year untill they ran into their recent difficulties.

Do you spend a lot of money on travel and hotels? Gas prices have gone through the roof now and travel expenses are rising fast.

Scaling can be safely carried out from inside the cage through the roof.

The blast blew a hole straight up through the roof of Reactor No. 4, and the explosions were followed by fire.

Your national ranking went through the roof.

Gas prices are going through the roof! I think it's better to take public transportation.

Heating biles would go through the roof this winter.

had gone away, and my energy level just went through the roof.

Yet the yen didn't go into long-term decline and interest rates hardly went through the roof.

Your albums are going through the roof!

Expectations went through the roof as crowds of people (even outside the U. S. ) shouted that oft-repeated campaign slogan, "Yes we can! "

Prices are gonna go through the roof even further.

Our stock prices went through the roof last month.

Does water always come through the roof in this place?

House prices here have gone through the roof.

And my day club went through the roof.

Oh, I always have the idea, but the house price has gone through the roof this year.

Those stocks could go through the roof.

She went through the roof when I told her I'd crashed her car.

I mean, can you imagine what this thing's gonna do ? Go through the roof !

The signal strength is through the roof. Where did you say you got this?

Bob, my oil pressure's through the roof.

Rain has worked in through the roof.

The rain percolated through the roof.

When I told her about breaking the window, she went through the roof.

Don't tell the director how you ruined the job, or he'll go through the roof.

The rain had soaked through the roof .

The rain seeped through the roof.

This allows us to off-load the grapes through the roof of the cellar and make use of the gravity flow.

Operating costs went through the roof last year.

An Israeli army officer looks at the hole blasted through the roof of an apartment building in the town of Nahariya

Emergency personnel also used a saw to cut through the roof of the trailer to reach the cattle

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Due to shortages, the price of wheat has gone through the roof,

The furnace has direct vent hookups that run out through the roof

Beijing prices go through the roof

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