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Examples

  • It's not on my to-rent list now, so perhaps I'll just keep it where it is in the queue

    Can Sam Rockwell really get an Oscar nomination? Reel Fanatic 2009

  • It's a sad, yet fascinating story worth checking out as I think it would appeal to many WFMU listeners, if only for the montage of great films excerpted and name-checked that can easily go on one's to-rent list.

    Z Channel's Freeform Movie Mayhem 2005

  • Guess I'll be putting this at the very bottom of my to-rent list in about 8 months.

    haloaskew Diary Entry haloaskew 2005

  • But I've got a couple of those on my to-rent list.

    wisdom of Natalie Holly 2005

  • Then the tyrant did do hang them, and with hooks and crochets of iron did do tear their flesh and all to-rent it.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900

  • Then Decius made him to be beaten with staves, and all to-rent with combs of iron.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900

  • And as he said these words, it was told the king that his god Baldach was overthrown and all to-broken, and when the king heard that, he brake and all to-rent his purple in which he was clad, and commanded that the apostle should be beaten with staves, and that he should be flayed quick, and so it was done.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900

  • S. Edmund and his fellows, on a day as they came from Lewkenor to Abingdon, saw in a valley many black fowls like crows or ravens, among whorn was one which was all to-rent and torn with the other black birds, and threw him from one to another that it was a piteous sight to see, and they that accompanied S. Edmund were almost from themselves for fear of the sight.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 6 1230-1298 1900

  • Diocletian so sore tormented and all to-rent by divers torments, that she came to the judge and confessed her to be christian.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900

  • And then forthwith they drew out his teeth of his head, and the holy mouth that had borne witness of truth was grievously beaten with so many of them that, ere they left they tare all the members of his body and to-brake all his bones, and all to-rent his body, and left him Iying upon the sand.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900

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