Example sentences of "[verb] apart at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the unholy alliance in favour of the National Curriculum is likely to come apart at the seams over the issue of resource , so also , given the very different aspirations of those who support its introduction , there is likely to be a parting of the ways over principles . |
| 2 | They get it into their heads that their fund-raising dinner for Hypothermic Pensioners In High Rise Blocks In Portsmouth will fall apart at the seams if Dillie Keane is n't there . |
| 3 | ‘ In other words you could n't bear the thought that there might just be one female in a hundred-mile radius who did n't fall apart at the seams every time you deigned to smile in her direction , ’ she spat back . |
| 4 | Last spring Nelson Mandela was released and the USSR began to split apart at the seams . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're not living apart at the moment , ’ he reminded her . |
| 6 | In many cases the husband and wife will be living apart at the time of the court order , or at a time when agreement is reached between them concerning the former matrimonial home , in circumstances that are likely to prove permanent . |
| 7 | Each tier was held in place by tiny press studs which sprang apart at the least pressure . |
| 8 | He writes that while the state plan of the day was ‘ coming apart at the seams ’ , Khrushchev was toying with radical reform that would reshape the Stalinist economy , and pondering sweeping changes in the constitution of 1936 . |
| 9 | ‘ By the mid-Fifties , ’ said Heston , ‘ That was all coming apart at the seams . |
| 10 | The voice is utterly firm , and there are no places where it gives notice of coming apart at the seams : she does not sport a ‘ separate ’ chest-register or a ‘ separate ’ floated top . |
| 11 | She was an idiot , coming apart at the seams , and she had n't written a word . |
| 12 | Dressed in a dark , immaculate evening suit and a crisp white shirt , worn with a bow-tie that had been , by the looks of it , impatiently pulled apart at the very earliest opportunity . |
| 13 | ‘ I fell apart at the seams — I was in tears all the time , and my doctor put me on pills . ’ |
| 14 | If the atmosphere at Sandringham was uncomfortable , at Park House it became unbearable as Diana 's little world fell apart at the seams . |
| 15 | In the sixties , fashion was such that a girl or a fella could afford a new Biba dress or John Stephen shirt every other week , they cost 35s 9d and who cared if they fell apart at the launderette . |
| 16 | Suddenly the idea of keeping her enemy close seemed ludicrous — how could she keep him close when she fell apart at the seams every time he was anywhere near her ? |
| 17 | After all , she was the one who fell apart at the seams every time they touched , while he remained infuriatingly unmoved . |
| 18 | It was symptomatic of a system going soft , falling apart at the seams . |
| 19 | Defence cuts , NATO falling apart at the seams as a near-bankrupt Great Britain trimmed her commitment back below the survival level and the other European allies stopped considering the quality of their defensive and offensive hardware and began worrying about sharing out the contracts amongst the EEC brotherhood instead . |
| 20 | Gazing blankly at the colour chart that was thrust into her hands , she felt as though she was falling apart at the seams , as though all the muscles and tendons that were holding her body together were snapping one by one . |
| 21 | Health service falling apart at the seams , and this the moment when , instead of attacking this awful government , a number of Labour politicians have decided to attack us , the trade unions who founded the party , and loyally supported the party through thick and thin . |
| 22 | We hope the human race will continue to exist for millions of years , and grow to more understanding but , in the year 2020 , the world seems to be falling apart at the seams . ’ |
| 23 | The leisurewear industry would come apart at the seams , literally , without this indispensable fastening . |
| 24 | She had helped enthusiastically with the costumes , making for Mary a trailing blue robe of cornflower taffeta , her own Cambridge May Ball dress sheared apart at the seams , lending or donating bright belts and beads to deck out the three kings , one of whom wore a peacock-feathered turban made of the shot-silk stole she had worn with that dance dress . |
| 25 | It 's all stripped apart at the moment ! |
| 26 | Sadly , in the second half , the play begins to fall apart at the seams as Harwood attempts to combine comedy with more serious themes . |
| 27 | Acads pick up the pieces as GH-K start to fall apart at the seams |
| 28 | We watch as friendships come apart at the seams , as lives of promise collapse under the weight of illness or despair or disillusion , but there is a reckless exhilaration about it all . |