| He ripped off his shoes, shoving them in his belt, then pelted forward, knocking startled onlookers aside. |
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| An 18-foot portion of the roof of the cabin ripped off, and a flight attendant standing in the aisle was ejected from the plane. |
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| She ripped off some fabric from one of the petticoats she wore and gently pressed it on the exit wound. |
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| There are at least three properties where the Gib has been ripped off, and they're being marketed as a do-up. |
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| The man ripped off her copy and put it on the box, then nodded and left the way he had come. |
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| In the United States, thousands of people are ripped off by con artists selling bogus investments. |
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| Britain is an expensive tourist trap where visitors are ripped off and overcharged for terrible service in restaurants and hotels. |
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| So, if you want to get ripped off, get your holiday money from a tour operator, travel agent or bureau de change. |
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| The mobsters also ripped off two federally supervised funds that subsidize rural phone companies through another billing scam, they said. |
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| Jillian felt the covers being ripped off of her and she shriveled up due to the loss of warmth. |
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| You saw carports down, roofs that had been ripped off, insulation all over the ground. |
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| Bumpers were damaged, wing mirrors were ripped off and deep scratches were etched into paintwork. |
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| In the early hours I had a terrific run on my swan mussel rod that again ripped off yards of line. |
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| The last thing that the motorist needs is to be ripped off at the petrol pumps. |
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| The con artists are careful not to get ripped off themselves, and no transaction takes place without first checking the validity of the numbers. |
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| Furiously, Louis tore off the leather gloves adding them to the trail of expensive finery he had ripped off. |
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| We did have guard rails for disabled people and children on the fishing platforms but they've all been kicked in or ripped off with tools. |
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| The whole mystery-gemstones-as-nuclear-fuel angle feels ripped off from a grade-B sci-fi-flick, and out of place in an urban actioner. |
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| A 3,000-foot section of track was ripped off the gravel bed where 11 of the coaches jumped the track, leaving wreckage for a quarter of a mile. |
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| He ripped off the purple wrapping paper and let it drop to the floor, whereupon it was attacked by Alex's cat, and best friend, Mookie. |
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| Whatever you do, don't seek to change a booking because you will be ripped off. |
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| Post-Christmas sales only prove just how much you were ripped off in the Pre-Christmas hurley-burley. |
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| The other night, a friend in my building told me that she was ripped off by the restaurant across the street. |
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| The concepts and moves are ripped off from American videos, but now she is also looking at our stuff and picking out things. |
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| I tuned Sparky out and started worrying about what my mother was gonna say when she found out all my stuff had been ripped off. |
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| I'm not sure what Hong Kong movie this plot is ripped off from, but Quentin is involved so I'm confident it's one of them. |
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| The idea to add the clicker was ripped off from an excellent Yankee-centric site by a writer named Cecilia Tan. |
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| An interesting thing to note with the movie is that it is ripped off in Luc Besson's Fifth Element. |
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| His ideas have been ripped off for years and years, and with increasing frequency. |
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| The game starts when Plok notices that his favorite flag has been ripped off and taken to the neighbouring isle of Cotton Island. |
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| I'm not using these examples as a pointer to the level of their skills, this is just a statement about the sound they've shamelessly ripped off. |
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| Sendei ripped off his outer clothes to reveal battle armour and a crossbow hanging from a leather belt. |
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| Fair Go is back for its 27th year to help out Kiwis who have been ripped off, short-changed or given the runaround. |
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| The girls get their costumes ripped off by the lupine guy in the white jacket and ripped jeans. |
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| Shocked travellers described how the larger Boeing 767 shook from side to side as its wing ripped off a tail fin from the smaller aircraft. |
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| First she took off the ribbon, and then gingerly ripped off the tape holding the paper together. |
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| The PM-designate's election-night high-jinx ripped off his mask as a modest politician to expose a two-pot screamer. |
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| You don't want to be ripped off by a bootlegger who sells pirate copies from the boot of a car. |
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| The soft material that used to pad sharp corners has been ripped off and not replaced. |
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| It is blithering nonsense to suggest that customers are being ripped off by thousands of pounds a minute. |
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| I stopped dead in my tracks as, unbelievably, two artist friends' works had been ripped off at once. |
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| Sold some books and was ripped off by the unpleasant second-hand bookseller. |
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| See the brainiac who ripped off Microsoft and then boasted about his vast quantities of illegal gain here. |
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| We have all heard stories about how Social Security is being ripped off by benefit fraudsters. |
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| Everyone is convinced they are being ripped off and the main strategy is to nobble your opponent. |
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| Who cares that you will probably be ripped off if you're in a country used to haggling for items, as the experience will be remembered? |
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| The hulls were ripped off the towed sub during a fierce storm and the submarine sank in 170 metres of water. |
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| They worked too hard for that money to see it get ripped off by some cheese-ball recording company. |
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| His right ear was almost ripped off, his right cheek was badly bitten and he sustained severe injuries to the back of the head and hands. |
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| He ripped off his own shirt, revealing perfect cosmetically implanted pectoral muscles, and waved it into the pool. |
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| Ixta stood up, and ripped off the gown she was wearing, revealing a green bustier, and a green skirt. |
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| On the surface it seems like an open invitation to getting ripped off but in some cases the system can work for people. |
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| The paint coating the frame was peeling and a small flake was ripped off by a breeze and was carried away. |
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| It ripped off roofs, flattened buildings and threw container lorries great distances. |
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| Down the street, one man was cleaning out a soggy Florida room on Monday after the wind ripped off part of his roof. |
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| One great alternative to getting ripped off by greedy lenders is to join a credit union. |
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| He ripped off two lengths of bandage and began soaking them in the liquid. |
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| She even ripped off the foldaway table on the seat beside her. |
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| Jealous of her young male friend who was permitted to ride his bike around shirtless, she once ripped off her top, too. |
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| The cuffs on her arms had been ripped off, and although he could only see the underside of her arms, there was a hint of leopard spots dappling the sides. |
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| I grabbed a sheet of paper from my binder and ripped off a small part. |
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| There were trees and electrical poles strewn across the road and corrugated iron roofing that had been ripped off houses. |
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| We are going to fight this tooth and nail because we think it is pretty scandalous the way workers are being ripped off in this country. |
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| The rugby fans after Ireland's Triple Crown victory in Dublin were ripped off by the pubs who charged exorbitant prices for drink over the weekend. |
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| They knew we wanted to stop consumers being ripped off, but weren't convinced we also wanted businesses to grow and flourish. |
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| In addition, of course, as is simply the case with such adventures, whenever anyone helped the fugitive, they ripped off part of the treasure. |
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| The left aileron, trailing edge flaps, and leading edge slats were ripped off the wing structure and were not found. |
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| The tanks of these cars were punctured and torn open, and the safety valves and isolation valves were ripped off. |
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| Damage and contact markings indicated that the slats had deployed violently before being ripped off the wings. |
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| The coach roof was ripped off the boat was full of water, although luckily the crew were quickly airlifted off by helicopter. |
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| On hitting the water, one of the floats on the plane struck a wave, and was ripped off. |
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| In Windsor, the roof was ripped off a union hall building with chunks of roofing and shards of glass littering the lawn and front steps. |
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| The explosion ripped off most of her right hand, burned her face from chin to forehead and peppered her body with shards of shrapnel. |
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| Just because there's competition, that doesn't mean consumers won't get ripped off. |
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| There were too many Maiden fans getting ripped off with cheap copies, and we don't like to see that. |
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| The patch pocket on her jacket was supposed to have been ripped off. |
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| I was instantly smitten with Brad the lumber jack god with blonde hair, bronzed muscular arms shown off by the ripped off sleeves of his plaid lumberjack shirt. |
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| An entire section of the roof ripped off, leaving passengers exposed as though sitting on the top deck of a roofless tour bus. |
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| At the stand-up comedy there is deep relief in seeing an audience of assorted South Africans all howling with laughter at themselves being ripped off. |
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| The car hit the kerb so hard the wheels were ripped off and split in two. |
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| I must confess, a lot of my style is ripped off from The Simpsons. |
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| With intellectual property rights, I will not accept the excuse that it is too widespread or too large-scale to handle, not until China's own products are ripped off. |
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| Brian moved up into the treeline and ripped off a couple cow calls, and a bull responded immediately from only a couple hundred yards away. |
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| Bosses at a funeral parlour have said sorry to grieving families ripped off by three heartless workers. |
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| There are many people who see Weir as a hangnail to be picked at and ripped off. |
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| I can see some challenges where some of the Elders and knowledge holders don't want to share anything anymore because they've been ripped off too much. |
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| One stripping mechanism is for gas to be caught in bubbles of magnetic field, which are ripped off by solar winds. |
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| One young man, who had ripped off his shirt, rushed forward to wipe Kandia Kouyaté's shoes as 10,000 CFA banknotes fluttered down upon the artists' heads. |
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| And these hooligans ripped off our present. |
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| The sea has been ripped off its fish by vessels flying international flags, consequently leading to the progressive disappearance of local fishermen. |
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| The Purple Rain artist does not want people being ripped off by ticket tout websites and took to Twitter to vent his anger. |
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| You can do the goth sway to it, but you might get your Ankh ripped off in the mosh pit. |
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| Apart from the mainsail track, which was partly ripped off and has handicapped Safran's progress for over half of the course, everything is working perfectly aboard the grey and orange monohull. |
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| After he ripped off his clothing, Michalak felt ill. |
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| Dozens, scores of others, all trusting, all by Ronnie's noble standards deserving of his protection: conned, robbed, ripped off by their knight errant. |
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| Dan ripped off his life vest and helped pull Christopher up. |
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| When his grave was plundered in 1995, even the flying wings from his tunic were ripped off. |
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| I discovered in my 40s that he is just a recapitulation of the things that the high modernists had already done, and that he basically just ripped off Joyce. |
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| It opens on The Hindu Times, which despite its its guitar riff ripped off from Stereophonics' Same Size Feet, is a great anthem. |
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| The competition and the similarities were close enough for Apple to sue Samsung for patent infringement in several countries, spurring the South Korean firm to counterclaim that it had been ripped off by Apple as well. |
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| The same argument was repeated over and over, namely that it is no big deal if Quebec workers are cheated, ripped off, pay premiums that are three times those of other workers because it is not a mandatory program. |
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| We have seen far too many times that when we privatize inspections, it just means that the retailers end up having to pay more and the consumers continue to get ripped off and hosed. |
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| A bad day on the field for a player on the national soccer squad could result in savage retribution: players had their feet scalded and toenails ripped off for failing to win tournaments. |
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| Minor issues include a flat tyre or a ripped off tyre and 4WDs getting stuck in places where a fellow driver's tow rope or a marshal's winch are of little help. |
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| Motorists are being ripped off by a Government using global warming as an excuse to implement stealth taxes when it has not been proved the car is the problem. |
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