Example sentences of "[adv] cutting [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seeks out the host queen , and rides about on her back while she quietly performs , to quote Edward Wilson 's artfully macabre understatement , ‘ the one act for which she is uniquely specialized : slowly cutting off the head of her victim ’ . |
| 2 | From Pamplona the army and the Carlist Requeté advanced northwards and by September , with the help of Italian bombers , had seized Irún and San Sebastián , thereby cutting off the rest of the Basque country and the north coast from the French border . |
| 3 | Thousands of tons of sand washed off the hillside onto Faringdon — silting up cellars and virtually cutting off the town . |
| 4 | He would hammer the point of the nail flat on a metal block , file it to an arrow shape , then cutting off the head , would use this as a drill . |
| 5 | Cover the cake with the appropriate pieces of fondant — for the front side with the holes , gently press on before neatly cutting around the holes and removing the pieces of surplus fondant . |
| 6 | Burying the ‘ evidence ’ he smeared the telltale marks on his blouse with mud , reluctantly cutting off the tops of his flying boots , hoping that the small holes in his uniform , from shrapnel , would pass unnoticed . |
| 7 | Ironically the easiest thing of all was actually cutting through the rope that bound them . |