Example sentences of "cut [adv prt] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the fourteenth siege of Tor Alessi he charged right into the heart of the Dwarf infantry and was cut down by King Gotrek who snatched the Phoenix crown from his corpse and took it in payment for the Elves ' insolence . |
| 2 | Thousands of High Elves were cut down by crossbow fire as they waded ashore . |
| 3 | But then one of their number was cut down by musket fire , to which they could not reply , for , clinging to the side , they had no hands free . |
| 4 | If the two girls compare notes one day , the New Yorker will complain about the useless articles she read ; the newspaper articles were almost always short , written maybe by hard-pressed critics who were only allowed short articles , further cut down by sub-editors . |
| 5 | His sidekick froze , and was cut down by fire from all quarters . |
| 6 | The most convenient way to study flows of this sort is to look at old examples which have been brought up above sea level by earth movements of one kind or another , and which have been subsequently cut through by erosion and exposed in clean , dry cliff sections . |
| 7 | Some 3,000 electors in a north Queensland constituency were cut off by floods and did not vote until several days after the election . |
| 8 | The village was cut off by floods . |
| 9 | As rebel fighters of Charles Taylor 's National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) tightened their grip on Monrovia , the city 's Spriggs Payne airport was temporarily closed by mortar fire on Oct. 31 , increasing the isolation of the 700,000 inhabitants of the capital , already completely cut off by land [ see p. 39131 ] . |
| 10 | Her diatribe was cut off by Michael who stormed into the kitchen . |
| 11 | It was decided to press ahead with Saturday 's show despite access to the main field being badly cut up by exhibitors ' vehicles having to be tractor- towed into position . |
| 12 | The design is carefully stencilled on to the fabric , then embroidered and the pattern cut out by hand to produce bed linen of the very highest quality . |