Example sentences of "go [prep] pieces " in BNC.
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| 1 | He talked of the language going to pieces " before our eyes " . |
| 2 | I put my other hand up to my face too , and put my head down on my knees , trying to keep myself from going to pieces . |
| 3 | Emotional resilience — to feel one 's own pain or tiredness or loneliness or what-have-you and be able to deal with it without " going to pieces " — is a fundamental requirement . |
| 4 | You wo n't help yourself or Susan by going to pieces . |
| 5 | He was going to pieces inside , just as Lorton intended , and he did n't like it . |
| 6 | I can scarcely write the four words without going to pieces , and watching it actually makes me lose weight . |
| 7 | He was obviously well accustomed to women going to pieces in his presence . |
| 8 | Travis might be going to pieces because he thought Rosemary had finished with him , but , all too clearly , he did n't deep down believe that they were through . |
| 9 | You 're not going to pieces of paper are you ? |
| 10 | This chapter is written with humility and with admiration by a former librarian whose strategy , when dealing with troublesome readers , was to go to pieces and leave it to Nancy . |
| 11 | But he was a tough boy and he determined not to go to pieces . |
| 12 | One little rejection , the first suggestion of a problem , and he started to go to pieces , blame everyone except himself . |
| 13 | That 's perhaps why things began to go to pieces when the boy was born . |
| 14 | ‘ If we are going to go to pieces , then let's go to pieces together ’ invites a whingeing love-struck cowboy of the Nineties . |
| 15 | He goes on to say of course federal laws were not being obeyed in the confederacy because they 'd rejected the entire panoply of federal laws and Lincoln goes on to point out must they these laws and the confederacy be allowed to state the question more directly , are all the laws but one to go unexecuted and the government itself to go to pieces less that one be violated . |
| 16 | When the glider is desperately low the pilot 's handling often goes to pieces , and he may over-rudder in an effort to get round a final turn without touching a wing-tip or turning any steeper . |
| 17 | From being someone who simply happened to fail his first driving test , he becomes a person who ‘ always goes to pieces when sitting beside the examiner ’ . |
| 18 | Edwin and Robert Grabhorn , who founded the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco in 1920 , worked so amicably together that it was said of them : ‘ When Ed 's away the shop goes to pieces ; when Bob 's away , Ed goes to pieces ’ ; but it would be a mistake to think that relationships between printers were always so harmonious . |
| 19 | Edwin and Robert Grabhorn , who founded the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco in 1920 , worked so amicably together that it was said of them : ‘ When Ed 's away the shop goes to pieces ; when Bob 's away , Ed goes to pieces ’ ; but it would be a mistake to think that relationships between printers were always so harmonious . |
| 20 | It goes to pieces like quicksilver under my touch . ’ |
| 21 | It seems he goes to pieces in a crisis , then . |
| 22 | If you ever try to do a ha a demonstration for anybody erm or a group of people involving a sort of manual skill , you find that it goes to pieces if it 's not a very well rehearsed skill , whereas you find you can actually get very your performance is a lot better when you 've got an audience if you know the skill very well . |
| 23 | A MODEL housewife slowly goes to pieces as one disaster follows another in Carol and Company : Diary Of A Really , Really Mad Housewife ( BBC1 , 11.05pm ) , a one-act comedy starring Carol Burnett . |
| 24 | Carol A MODEL housewife slowly goes to pieces as one disaster follows another in Carol and Company : Diary Of A Really , Really Mad Housewife ( BBC1 , 11.05pm ) , a one-act comedy starring Carol Burnett . |
| 25 | He goes to pieces , he 's lost all confidence ai n't he , in himself |
| 26 | Before a concert , some people went to pieces , chain-smoking , hands trembling , shaking whisky out of the bottle . |
| 27 | Franco had never seen him so drunk and , although Maidstone 's intake of alcohol had often been greater on past occasions , this time he just went to pieces . |
| 28 | Byrne plays the young ragamuffins ' father , Papa Riley , a former leader of the travellers who went to pieces when his beloved wife died in childbirth and now subsists on cheap whisky and stale fags in a rundown council flat while his boyos fend for themselves . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ Eventually we went to pieces . |
| 30 | Her self-discipline and game went to pieces , and she was stunned when Martina , disturbed at Pam 's fragile mental state , eventually called time on their long-standing doubles partnership . |