Example sentences of "cut [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cut along these lines using pinking shears . |
| 2 | Cut along these lines using pinking shears |
| 3 | The situation was triggered by an arbitrary cut in the pay of sailors hired to rig the Guineaman Derby who , in protest , cut down all the rigging . |
| 4 | Cut down all the trees . |
| 5 | You cut down two trees and the the grass has been left and they took advantage of the bit that was there . |
| 6 | I cut down young trees and put them in the ground , in a half-circle around the front of my tent . |
| 7 | Text Bite : Cut down single user version of transactional database . |
| 8 | John Gibbons , a courtier , was fined £8,600 for exceeding the terms of his grant of land in the forest : between 1629 and 1634 he had , without warrant , cut down 4,000 oaks worth £1 apiece , spoiled certain coppices , and enclosed 94 acres . |
| 9 | Here I cut down several of the largest trees with my knife , and made two wooden boxes . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | If you cut off one head of a hydra , two others promptly sprouted in its place . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | Cut off one sloping short end of the cake to form a secure standing base . |
| 14 | Even the Arab world , which had tried to prevent the UN turning Libya into an international pariah , grudgingly acceded to the UN Security Council and cut off all air links . |
| 15 | If this considerable force struck toward Siedlice , some 160km/100mls east of Warsaw , Conrad 's northward drive could , in combination , cut off all Russian forces in the salient . |
| 16 | During the days of live Television AFMs were equipped with a ‘ cut key ’ — a hard-wired push-button which , when pressed , cut off all sound from the studio microphones so that the viewers at home could not hear the prompt line being called out by the AFM . |
| 17 | You cut off all the old you that gets in the way of the maker you . |
| 18 | When you are preparing rhubarb , cut off all the leaves , which are poisonous , and chop off the other end along with any brown parts . |
| 19 | He had , after all , cut off all his sources of wealth and honour and position in Scotland , and a man must take care of himself and his own , at whatever cost to other men . |
| 20 | Croatia on Sept. 15 cut off all supplies to 15 army bases , which subsequently surrendered , and extended the blockade throughout Croatia . |
| 21 | Maybe — I cut off that line of thinking . |
| 22 | The number of dead and injured was expected to rise as rescue teams reached more outlying regions cut off due to the widespread destruction of roads and bridges . |
| 23 | Jeans cut off thigh-high to make shorts and a T-shirt he had made out of an old man 's vest he had bought for 20p in a sale under the arches at Charing Cross Station and dyed green and yellow . |
| 24 | This was partly because of the structure of the lexicon used which enabled efficient storage and search , and cut off non-productive alternatives at an early stage . |
| 25 | Unearth them the following winter , remove all the rooted stems for transplanting and cut off any that have failed to root . |
| 26 | Nor has she slit any throats , gouged out any eyes or cut off any fingers or genitals , which is what is routinely done , pour encourager les autres , to opponents of the huge Guatemalan army . |
| 27 | Leave approximately 25cms hanging below the bear , attach the toggle and cut off any extra cord . |
| 28 | To prevent birds pulling them up , net the rows until they root and cut off any wispy tips . |
| 29 | They would certainly have time to get to the river Almond and cut off any interference from the garrisons there at Perth and at Scone , even if they ca n't overwhelm them . |
| 30 | Cut off more than ever from the society of my peers , I fell back on my mother . |