"The man tore his coat as he got through this gap," he said.

Up into the tree he scrambled, not without some difficulty, for the branches were close together and stiff, and Ned tore his coat in the effort.

We tore his coat, stole his money, and saw to it his lips were stained with liquor.

Sharpe forced himself through the hole in the wall, tearing his coat on a protruding stone.

'Surely you could have split the rock without tearing my coat to bits!'

I tore my coat this morning,' he began, when he had found her sitting at the door of her house eating an apple.

"She tore her coat on the catch, climbing out," the chinless man said, displaying the scrap of fur.

Your dog has torn my coat.

You have torn my thin little coat all to shreds, useless, awkward hussies that you are!

When the mob attacked, Foster took twenty blows to the head and had his coat torn in half.