Example sentences of "cut a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the charity 's Ealing offices , Cliff , with BBC newsroom South East television cameras in attendance , cut a cake to help celebrate ACET 's third birthday during June . |
| 2 | On mine , I cut a groove near the periphery of the board to collect used marbles . |
| 3 | Cut a 5/8in wide band of bicycle inner tube . |
| 4 | To make invisibly mounted brass nameplates cut a brass disc of the appropriate diameter and thickness ; I use 1 mm sheet , and 1 mm diameter . |
| 5 | The answer is to cut out a small square of plasterboard ( or to cut through the laths in the same way ) , cut a narrow notch in the nogging to allow the cable through , and then replace the plasterboard , nailing it in place either side of the notch , and making good with filler . |
| 6 | Karoly Grosz , the outgoing general secretary , cut a lonely figure as he bowed out , dropping hints that in future he would be taking a back seat in politics . |
| 7 | Saturday 's team reunites five of the Auckland backs who recently cut a swathe through NZ rugby . |
| 8 | Censorship , dictated by the military and Catholic priests , cut a lot . |
| 9 | Cut a strip of patterned giftwrap 30 × 7cm . |
| 10 | Cut a piece of blue card 30 × 20cm . |
| 11 | Then cut a strip of green card 30 × 6cm and cut deep zigzags along one edge to represent the grass . |
| 12 | For the flower pot , cut a piece of orange card 14 × 10cm . |
| 13 | Cut a strip of orange card 15 × 3cm for the rim . |
| 14 | Cut a piece of white card 20 × 30cm . |
| 15 | Cut a piece of white card 12 × 10cm for the shirt pocket . |
| 16 | Cut a block into eight rectangular blocks , about 7–8cm in length . |
| 17 | We should all be exercising , even when we do it badly , even when we cut a ridiculous figure as we job along , puffing and panting . |
| 18 | CUT A DASH IN A CARDI … |
| 19 | Editors often cut a vital sentence , too , and made the whole thing unbalanced . |
| 20 | I showed her the garden , and we chose and cut a cabbage , which I cooked , and we had lunch . |
| 21 | Cut a plastic bottle in half , and put a mixture of jam and water into the bottom half . |
| 22 | Whole leaf with stalk ( African violet , peperomia ) : cut a leaf near the base of its stalk , dip the end in hormone rooting powder and insert in compost up to the leaf base . |
| 23 | Cut a tongue in each of the faces to be joined so that they interlock neatly , bind the joint with raffia and cover with grafting wax or bituminous tree paint . |
| 24 | Arrange the plants side by side and cut a thin sliver from each stem so that the two wounds exactly match when brought together . |
| 25 | Cut a length of one-year-old stem ( ‘ the budstick ’ ) from the scion variety and cut out the buds , each in the centre of a thin , inch-long shield of bark . |
| 26 | Some might call Connaught the Real Ireland , but I do n't see why turf-cutters are any more or less real than Midland golfers who cut a different kind of turf when they swing their clubs . |
| 27 | They were able to take a high line , look impressive , cut a dash — on the cheap . |
| 28 | Cut a rebate in the sill so it fits around the seal carriers |
| 29 | First , cut a suitably-sized hole in the interior wall leaf , using bolster and club hammer . |
| 30 | She snatched up one of the spears racked handy beside the hearth , and her father ducked fast as it slashed just over his head into a tapestry hanging above the fire , cut a two-foot gash in Saint Peter 's side and raised a shower of sparks . |