Appendix a Resultative Phrases
APPENDIX A RESULTATIVE PHRASES Exhaustive corpus search in the British National Corpus (BNC). ‘Size’ lists the total number of occurrences of the target phrase found in the BNC. ‘No. of occur.’ lists the number of resultative usages of the target phrase found in [NP V NP XP] patterns in the BNC (within five words to the left of the target phrase). A.1 APART Size: 3444 intervals/matches Verb No. of occur. Tear 166 Take 48 Pull 41 Prise 26 Blow 24 Rip 21 Force 16 Drive 8 Split 7 Break, push 6 Draw 4 Brace, knock, place, tease, wrench 3 Ease, pick, spread, sweep, wedge 2 Burst, rip, bust, tear, cut, drag, glimpse, 1 nudge, plant, press, rub, shift, slide 1. Certain parts of the station seemed to have been attacked and ripped apart. 2. That blew me apart. 3. On both of the previous occasions, the area was evacuated and isolated until the storm blew itself apart. 4. Petrol tanks ignited, blew machines apart, sprayed blazing fuel over other fighters. 5. The South Africans arrived claiming they were going to teach the Welsh pack about power play but Gary Llewellyn 's men blew them apart and the Welsh forwards bagged four of the tries. 6. In the description of the sprinkler and the apron, and especially the altar, the internalization of law ( as disguise ) results in this sacrilege within reverence , an intimacy with law which can blow apart its ideological effect ( revealing the hidden side of the altar ) -- and with a strange knowing innocence strangely inseparable from that intimacy.
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