Example Sentences

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Fighters I should have been smashing up I was having hard fights against, But when I went back to Birmingham my old amateur trainer, Tom Chaney, took over again.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2013

I have been smashing up mouldings this morning with an axe.

From “Crumps”, The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went by Keene, Louis