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[11 : Something ----s something ]
[8 : Somebody ----s something ]



NP (Destroyer) V () PP[like] (Manner) NP (Patient)
NP (Patient) V () CNI (Destroyer)
NP (Patient) V () CNI (Destroyer) VPto (Purpose) PP[in] (Time)
NP (Patient) V () CNI (Destroyer) PP[to] (Result)
NP (Patient) V () CNI (Destroyer) PP[to] (Result) PP[in] (Time)
NP (Destroyer) V () NP (Patient) PP[in] (Time)
NP (Patient) V () PP[by] (Destroyer) PP[on] (Time)
NP (Cause) V () AVP (Degree) NP (Patient) PP[ago] (Time)
NP (Cause) V () NP (Patient) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Patient) V () CNI (Cause) AVP (Degree)
NP (Cause) V () AVP (Degree) NP (Patient)
NP (Patient) V () PP[in] (Cause) AVP (Degree) PP[over] (Time)
NP (Patient) V () PP[by] (Cause) Sub (Explanation) AVP (Manner)
NP (Cause) V () AVP (Frequency) NP (Patient)
NP (Cause) V () AVP (Manner) NP (Patient)
NP (Cause) V () PP[by] (Means) NP (Patient)
NP (Patient) V () CNI (Cause)
NP (Cause) V () NP (Patient) PP[under] (Result) PP[around] (Time)
NP (Patient) V () PP[by] (Cause) PP[at] (Place) PP[on] (Time)
NP (Patient) V () PP[in] (Cause) PP[in] (Place) 2nd (Time)
NP (Patient) V () PP[by] (Cause) PP[in] (Time)
NP (Destroyer) V () PP[in] (Containing_event) NP (Patient) PP[on] (Time)
NP (Destroyer) V () AVP (Degree) PP[by] (Means) NP (Patient)
NP (Destroyer) V () AVP (Degree) NP (Patient)
NP (Patient) V () AVP (Degree) CNI (Destroyer) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Destroyer) V () AVP (Depictive) VPing (Depictive) NP (Patient)
NP (Destroyer) V () AVP (Manner) NP (Patient)
NP (Destroyer) V () VPing (Means) NP (Patient)
NP (Patient) V () CNI (Destroyer) PP[under] (Explanation) PP[by] (Time)
NP (Destroyer) V () PP[with] (Instrument) NP (Patient)
NP (Patient) V () INI (Destroyer) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Destroyer) V () NP (Patient) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Destroyer) V () NP (Patient) PP[in] (Place) NP (Time)
NP (Patient) V () CNI (Destroyer) PP[for] (Purpose)
NP (Destroyer) V () PP[by] (Means) NP (Patient)
NP (Cause) V () NP (Patient) NP (Time)
NP (Cause) V () NP (Patient) PP[on] (Time)
NP (Cause) V () 2nd (Instrument) NP (Patient) AVP (Time)
NP (Patient) V () PP[in] (Cause) 2nd (Place) PP[in] (Time)
NP (Cause) V () NP (Patient) PP[at] (Place) PP[near] (Place)
NP (Cause) V () NP (Patient) PP[in] (Place) NP (Time)
NP (Patient) V () PP[by] (Cause) NP (Time)
NP (Patient) V () PP[from] (Cause) 2nd (Time)
NP (Patient) V () CNI (Destroyer) 2nd (Explanation) NP (Time) Sub (Time)
NP (Patient) V () CNI (Cause) NP (Place)
NP (Patient) V () CNI (Cause) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Patient) V () PP[by] (Destroyer) PP[at] (Place) PP[in] (Time)
NP (Patient) V () PP[during] (Containing_event) PP[by] (Destroyer)
NP (Patient) V () PP[during] (Containing_event) CNI (Destroyer) PP[in] (Time)
NP (Patient) V () Sinterrog (Containing_event) CNI (Destroyer) PP[in] (Time)
NP (Patient) V () AVP (Degree) PP[by] (Destroyer)
NP (Destroyer) V () PP[in] (Explanation) NP (Patient)
NP (Destroyer) V () Sinterrog (Explanation) NP (Patient)
NP (Destroyer) V () VPto (Explanation) NP (Patient)
NP (Patient) V () CNI (Destroyer) Sbrst (Explanation)
NP (Destroyer) V () VPing (Means) PP[in] (Medium) NP (Patient) PP[as] (Role)
NP (Patient) V () CNI (Destroyer) PP[except] (Means)
NP (Patient) V () CNI (Destroyer) VPto (Purpose)
NP (Destroyer) V () NP (Patient) PP[at] (Place) VPto (Purpose)
NP (Destroyer) V () NP (Patient) VPto (Purpose)
NP (Patient) V () CNI (Destroyer) Sinterrog (Time)
NP (Destroyer) V () NP (Patient) AVP (Time)
NP (Destroyer) V () NP (Patient) Sub (Time)
NP (Patient) V () AVP (Manner) PP[in] (Time)
NP (Destroyer) V () PP[with] (Depictive) NP (Patient)
NP (Destroyer) V () PP[because of] (Explanation) PP[with] (Instrument) NP (Patient)
NP (Patient) V () PP[by] (Destroyer) PP[in] (Place) VPing (Result) PP[on] (Time)
NP (Destroyer) V () NP (Destroyer) NP (Patient)
NP.instrument (Instrument) V () NP (Patient)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Patient) NP (Cause) V () NP (Patient)
NP (Destroyer) V () NP (Patient)
NP (Destroyer) V () INI (Patient)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Patient) PP.instrument[with] (Instrument)


Examples from WordNet


You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!
The tears ruined her make-up



Examples from VerbNet


The builders destroyed the warehouse with explosives.
The explosives destroyed the warehouse.
The Romans destroyed the city.



Examples from SemCor


During the following week, six tons of hay belonging to one rancher were burned; some buildings, farm tools, two horses, plows, and hay owned by Bonito_Lavato, a friendly interpreter for the company, and Pedro_Chavez' hay were stolen or destroyed; and a store was broken into and robbed.
But in our case- and my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come_close to wrecking several more.
In rare cases, diseases such_as encephalitis or a pituitary tumor may damage the appestat permanently, destroying nearly all sense of satiety.
When he remembered that he might have not signed the check, Mercer made_out another for the same amount, instructing the bank to destroy the other- especially if he had happened_to have absent-mindedly signed both of them.
That is why the members of the beat_generation proudly assume the title of the holy barbarians; they will destroy the shrines, temples, museums, and churches of the state that is the implacable enemy of the life they believe_in.
South Viet_Nam 's rice surplus for next year- more_than 300000 tons- may have been destroyed.
If we fail to develop the means to hunt_down and destroy the enemy 's military_force with extreme care and precision, and if war comes in spite of our most ardent desires for peace, our choice of alternatives will be truly frightening.
`` But it did destroy the natural controls of a borer and released a new plague that wrecked a sugar_cane crop'', he said.
The great advances made in recent years in Communist strength and in our own capacity to destroy require an educated citizenry in the Western world.
Survivability of our strategic forces( Polaris, mobile and hardened Minuteman, hardened Atlas and Titan, and airborne Skybolt) means that it will take some time, perhaps weeks, to destroy a strategic force.
We would have the means to seek_out and destroy the enemy 's force- whether it were fixed or mobile.
Many_of the latter were destroyed in their turn, during the burning of the vast Ch' in palace some ten years later; yet some must have survived, because the old interest in number symbolism, divination, and magic persisted on into the Han dynasty, which succeeded in reuniting China and keeping it together for a longer period( from 202 B._C. to A._D. 220).
In 1819 grasshoppers again destroyed the crop at`` the Forks''( Fort_Douglas) and in December 1819, twenty men left Fort_Daer for the most northerly American outpost at Prairie_du_Chien.
Many_of you are familiar, I 'm sure, with the story of my early struggles: the fire in January, 1947, that destroyed everything- even our precious list of subscribers.
How best to destroy your peace?
Jonathan wrote grimly of the destruction of Harpers_Ferry before they abandoned it; of their first engagement at Falling_Waters after Old_Jack 's First_Brigade had destroyed all the rolling_stock of the B_+_O_Railroad.
It would be even more valuable because that same aircraft could immediately destroy any targets it discovered- no need to wait for a missile to come all_the_way from the United_States with the chance that the target, if it were mobile, would be gone.
The innocence that they tried to conceal at the beginning is clearly destroyed forever when one of them, asking for a piece of lemon-meringue_pie, gets a plate of English_muffins instead.
Competent teachers are well versed in the technique of leading students to pre-set conclusions without destroying the students' illusion that they are making their own decisions.
If the target can change its position significantly during the 30_minutes the missile is in_the_air on its way, the probability of the missile destroying the target is drastically reduced.
The nest itself, the structure that in some cases housed about 2000 individuals when the season was at its peak, is now rapidly destroyed by the larvae of certain beetles and moths.
They do not destroy physical_structures as is true of high_explosives.
It is true, of_course, the uncertainties of life being what they are, that as now_and_then the Christian killed the lion, homecoming days have been ruined by a visiting team.
The United_States and Soviet_Russia have enough nuclear_weapons to destroy all nations.
Or put another way, the hardest missile site planned today could be destroyed by placing a one-kiloton warhead( 1 20 th the size of those used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki) within 100 to 200 feet of the target!
`` You 're working_up to something, and if you do n't watch_out you 'll ruin your whole life one_of_these_days just to prove that the Abernathy family is superior to everything, even a depression''.
The charges by the late junior Senator from Wisconsin not_only destroyed innocent people but misled the nation.
The capacity of intellectuals and members of the new professional classes to contribute creatively to national development is likely to be destroyed by a constraining sense of inferiority toward both their own political class and their colleagues and professional counterparts in the West.
They had ruined the radar warning system with their window, they had made themselves invisible above their flares.
The aircraft could be used to destroy other mobile, fleeting, and imprecisely located targets as_well as the known, fixed and hardened targets which can also be destroyed by missile.
Again Reverend_Corder saved the bridge when Union soldiers planned to destroy it, after filling its two lanes with hay and straw- but for what reason is not recorded nor remembered, certainly not because of pressure from an opposing Confederate force.