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. 7. But Mr Bush 's old agency, the CIA, suddenly produced the trial 's only real, live agent to blow apart a key assertion: that Noriega had fallen out with the cartel after his troops destroyed a state-of-the-art cocaine laboratory in Panama. 8. If the Community is built on anything other than a recognition that people and nations often disagree and argue , then it will blow apart in time , or , worse , have to maintained by ever more centralised power. 9. Both belt and bandoleers were ready-laden with red Ely cartridges loaded with buckshot; one in the belly would blow a man apart. 10. It 's too risky, and I 'm not willing to blow the leadership contest apart on the basis of speculation." 11. At the smallest sign of unusual activity they 'll blow the thing apart." 1 12. The attempt to hold it together at gunpoint may succeed only in blowing the Soviet Union apart more violently. 13. What is especially good about this unit is that you can also replicate big brother SVT 's trademark ` growl " , if required ; the limiter can be set to allow the power amp to be safely overdriven , without fear of blowing the speakers apart with harmful transistorised clipping . 14. The UN force in Croatia has been nearly paralysed since 22 January when Croatia 's army began to bombard Serb-dominated areas under UN protection, blowing apart a year old ceasefire . 15. yeah , you 're blowing <unclear> apart as well because we aren't servicing our part of the partnership , cos it 's not only just talking about the projects he 's bringing in and getting him involved with projects like that. 16. The wood fibres are blown apart , but remain glued together at many individual points by the set resin , or connected by viscous strings of it if it has not quite set . 17. Giving up with the Browning , Ace lobbed a grenade at the sedan chair , and was rewarded by the sight of Mait leaping out with surprising agility instants before the chair was blown apart . 18. Everyone on the bridge of the Raubvogel ducked as a pane of glass was blown apart. 19. Not noticing the church hadn't been quite as crass as he 'd feared , because whatever else the bomb had done , it had blown the church apart . 20. There was nothing visible downstairs where we were, so immediately went up the stairs at the side to the production level where the blast had come from , and there we met a group of people who had just come out of the control room and they were cut and suffering from shock 'cos the blast had obviously well it <trunc> d </trunc> nearly blown the control room apart . 21. I have to report to the House with deep sadness that, shortly after 5 o'clock on Friday afternoon, seven construction workers on their way home from work were killed and seven were injured , five very seriously , when their minibus was blown apart in a massive explosion at Teebane Cross , on the main Omagh to Cookstown road in County Tyrone . 22. ` But personally I think he 's split, now his organisation 's blown apart. 23. Swindon were blown apart. 24. But financial analysts say the end of the credit boom has blown the market apart. 25. There is a catastrophic ` implosion " , which may be called the opposite of an explosion , followed by a shock-wave which literally blows the star apart in what is called a supernova outburst . 26. A man stepped out of the distant trees, braced his legs apart, hunched slightly and pointed a pistol at him . 27. A figure moved to her right, a man in overalls who suddenly braced his legs apart , and raised a gun . 28. Wet and muddy, but moving doggedly under his own steam, Gus Hambro lurched into the circle of his would-be rescuers, braced his rubbery legs well apart , and stood dazzled , holding his head together with both hands . 29. Moreover, she has been advised by Sir Alan Walters that, once exchange controls have finally been removed by France and Italy in July 1990, the new freedom of capital flows will break the fixed exchange rate system apart. 30. Most were far too taken with the spectacle of Andrei Gromyko, then the Soviet Union 's deputy Foreign Minister, trying -- and failing -- to break the conference apart. 31. We sell a great many long haul holidays, often breaking apart the packages then putting them together again at lower cost. " 32. They are breaking it apart, and if they were to get another five years they would all but finish the job. " 33. That beautiful girl was ruining her life, was breaking her family apart -- for drugs. 34. The team is now breaking the basin apart, attempting to apply modern techniques, and posing new questions . 35. But he certainly went through Chapter Yard, into the cathedral, and was walking near the crypt when Michael Soames seemed to be struggling to open the barrier as if he would burst it apart. 36. The commission accepts that one country 's excessive borrowing would not bust the EMU apart. 37. Aside from the stalemated Iran-Iraq war , Lebanon continued to tear itself apart in continuous internecine struggles. 38. When the hunters at the head of the column discover prey , they swarm all over it , cutting it apart . 39. We both went crashing over and a furious fight ensued until two big prefects dragged us apart. 40. Both class relations and gender relations, while they exist within their own histories , can nevertheless be so closely interwoven that it is theoretically very difficult to draw them apart within specific historic conjunctures . 41. Drawing them apart he suddenly cracked their heads together. 2 42. He was just drawing the screens apart to step inside, when the door opened . 43. He covers it with his other hand , draws his fists apart and holds them for GUIL . 44. The gap between the British and Prussian armies was still very narrow, yet Sharpe 's news proved that the Emperor had his foot between the two doors and , in the morning , he would be heaving damned hard to drive the doors apart . 45. ` I know Tom was bitter and angry, but he 'll get over it and remember, Joe, there are quarrels in every family, but it doesn't drive them apart for long , not if they really love each other , it don't . " 46. Olivia, who likes her <pb n=201> sleep, soon developed a great loathing for our morning visitors , but all her efforts to drive them away and apart had little success , and spectacularly failed to calm the passions of the energetically copulating birds . 47. It had brought them together and would drive them apart. 48. Personal rivalries and conflicting ambitions drove them apart. 49. On the day the merger was announced, USL president Roel Pieper, who will report to Noorda , claimed a positive reaction to the move from AT&T 's old enemies Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM who always fretted over AT&T 's control , its hardware biases and its association with the bad blood that drove the industry apart . 50. Nicolo 's voice was cold as the thrust of a knife; it drove them apart and they stood staring at him . 51. The capricious blaze, devouring the easiest fuel, hissed between them and drove them apart , and Isambard came leaping through it , grinning like a demon and bringing with him a shower of sparks and the smoky , scorching odour of hell . 52. She lay in bed, curled up like a ball , grasping her twin moons , and erotically easing them apart so that the cleft widened to expose her tight little bumhole. 53. The lips that had soothed now hardened, and when she stiffened in fright his tongue ran along her mouth with shocking intimacy, easing her lips apart and moving inside to tease her tongue and explore the warmth. 54. Their shared experiences over the past 2,000 years, he argues, bring them together more than their conflicts force them apart.