Example sentences of "cut [adv prt] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here I cut down several of the largest trees with my knife , and made two wooden boxes . |
| 2 | It was alleged by his widow that Thomas Flete , as agent of Clemens , ‘ … him feloniously slew and murdered and clove his head in four parties and gave him ten deadly wounds in his body and when he was dead they cut off one of his legs and one of his arms and his head from his body to make him sure ’ . |
| 3 | In the Sun 's report , the accused was alleged to have told the police that he stripped the victim naked and cut off one of her breasts to make it look like ‘ the work of a madman ’ . |
| 4 | Cut out some of the obscurer passages , and anything too tactless . |
| 5 | Instead , I cut back some of the more boisterous forest plants in my garden . |
| 6 | When the fainter member passes in front of the brighter , it naturally cuts off some of the light , and Algol ‘ winks ’ . |
| 7 | LocoScript PC Easy cuts out some of the more esoteric features that can usually be found in a word processor these days — advanced layout features such as newspaper style columns , the ability to add footnotes , access to an on-line thesaurus etc . |
| 8 | Where you going to go to get for you , , I do n't know why they 're cutting down all of erm , his , they 've got some nice ones on there . |
| 9 | Well you , you can actually cut down some of the overtime maybe , and you need to review that and that 's , you need to make that decision . |
| 10 | He sacrifices four lambs at the base of the li ga , then takes two inside and kills them by slitting open the throat and the chest and cutting off one of the forelegs at the shoulder , so the heart can be taken out , still pumping , and offered to the god on a plate on the dhāmi 's raised seat . |
| 11 | Thus subscription prices were shooting up and cutting off thousands of readers who could no longer afford them . |
| 12 | Lightening hit overhead power cables at Stanton Harcourt , cutting off thousands of homes around Burford , Bourton on the Water and the Rissingtons . |
| 13 | ‘ And how could you cut off one of my curls with a sword that is n't sharp ? ’ |
| 14 | It can , none the less , cut out many of the worst frustrations : material that takes hours to trace , is never found , or is unavailable at the right time ; teacher-made material that takes too long , is botched in process or inexpertly designed ; equipment that does n't work , or works badly , or is preempted by someone else at the crucial moment ; timetables that do n't , when it comes to the point , allow sufficient flexibility ; help that one feels ought to be available but somehow never is . |
| 15 | He wo n't cut out any of my teeth will he ? |
| 16 | But I think if you did bring back hanging it 'd cut out some of these flaming crimes . |
| 17 | We 're carrying on with that as normal and with many other jobs as well ; we 've cut down some of our local training sorties to release aircraft for the main lift , but we 're coping pretty well . |
| 18 | Do it yourself — just cut out one of our ads , paste it to a stiff piece of card , and place it on your set ! |
| 19 | In the early 1960s Dr Beeching , the chairman of the railways , had cut out some of the most unprofitable rail lines and the fear was that I would do the same . |
| 20 | Yolland thought that the only action needed was to cut down some of the trees in a young plantation in order to give people riding or driving on the turnpike a good view of an advancing train in the cutting . |
| 21 | Recently a major new canal has been made to cut off some of the tributary rivers . |
| 22 | The first thing most people do when they diet is to cut out many of the foods they like . |
| 23 | ‘ The Government is trying to promote small businesses and to cut out some of the bureaucracy and red tape which is strangling us . ’ |
| 24 | I always buy your magazine , but to get a picture of ‘ Slash ’ or ‘ Satch ’ I have to cut out half of the interview page . |