They have been living there up until October 12th and once they moved out the earth-moving machines made matchwood of it pronto. |
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It thrashed through the shops, turning them into matchwood and bits of toys and upturned fridges. |
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They had built a breakwater so ineffectual that any boat taking overnight shelter behind it was likely to be smashed to matchwood on the rocks. |
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The full force of the waves hit us, rocking our little boat like a piece of matchwood. |
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He signed for his new home at 11 am on Christmas Eve, which by dawn on Christmas day was matchwood. |
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When I attain power, his wailing guitar will be reduced to matchwood, and put on the fire, thus returning it from whence it came. |
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Still, those occasions when it all fell into place can still blow your loudspeakers to matchwood. |
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Seismic shifts under the sea bed created a massive wall of water which instantly turned coastal communities into so much matchwood. |
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He did, however, blow his bottom off and reduce the kitchen to splintered matchwood. |
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Many mobile homes were reduced to piles of matchwood and twisted aluminium. |
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In the interview, Bill told of being on the ferry when the torpedo from the midget submarine turned it to matchwood and took 21 lives. |
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Crushed wooden houses now resemble matchwood, scattered in every direction over swampy wasteland. |
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In 1908, an asteroid or comet about 60 metres long exploded over Siberia with the force of 600 times the Hiroshima bomb, reducing a 40-km wide patch of forest to matchwood. |
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Show us how easily this Universe can make matchwood of our dreams! |
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With a curt nod, Mike ordered the others to get her ready, picked up a heavy chair as though it were matchwood, and used it to smash out one of the larger panes of glass. |
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Boats were pounded to matchwood on the savage, foam-lashed rocks below. |
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The prison at Omsk, which had known Dostoyevsky, was not like any old Gulag transit prison, hastily knocked together from matchwood. |
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In the widening gyre the greatest of them have splintered into matchwood. |
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Then, nothing again but red road, big sky and a dry creek lined with strange, skeletal trees, snapped and scattered like matchwood by a recent tornado. |
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Mariinsky Posad, with shipbuilding, and Kozlovka are the chief timber centres along the Volga River, producing prefabricated houses, railroad ties, and matchwood. |
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The walls were as thin as matchwood, and to hide the cracks they had been covered with layer after layer of pink paper, which had come loose and housed innumerable bugs. |
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