Example sentences of "cut [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When much of Britain and Europe was covered with forest , tree worship was prevalent and it was customary to go in spring or early summer into the woods , cut down a tree and bring it , together with the blessings bestowed by the tree spirit , into the village where it was re-erected . |
| 2 | It would be agreeable to report that on at last sighting the ocean I , like Vasco Núñez , promptly prayed a lot , rejoiced even more , cut down a fine tree and erected a cross , then had the expedition secretary carefully write down the names of all my companions for posterity . |
| 3 | I cut down a big tree , and then began to make a long hole in it . |
| 4 | Yeah catching rabbits a hedge and cut down a stick you know at the corn on the old and if we were lucky we used to get erm we used to er seat the old fella on the boiler and have a ride round on one of the horses . |
| 5 | cut down a plastic bucket and fixed that , it was great she had a bucket round her , round her |
| 6 | There 's nothing around the sides of the stage except cold brick walls and if you put anything there you cut down the already poor sight lines even more . |
| 7 | THIS TIME last year a crew of 50 descended on Caroline and Roger Shapland 's 17th-century Oxfordshire farmhouse , cut down the holly bush at the end of their drive , ripped up their carpets , removed their light switches and took over all but one of their bedrooms . |
| 8 | British Rail 's answer to leaves on the line : cut down the trees |
| 9 | The Western sheep and cattle rangers cut down the big trees and put a stop to the burning of bush . |
| 10 | And if we cut down the number of our operations — for the part he 's making it would n't be worth automating . |
| 11 | As the Turks cut down the oak-trees to fuel the trains , so Lawrence blew up the track . |
| 12 | Cut down the grooming time but do it quickly , efficiently and calmly . |
| 13 | This would save energy and cut down the risk of fires . |
| 14 | The approval by members at the June special meeting of a reformed scheme should , with luck , cut down the time that references to the JDS take to complete , as well as the cost of these expensive investigations . |
| 15 | They cut down the flowery mass |
| 16 | 2 nurses can perform a dressing more efficiently and cut down the length of time a wound is exposed and at risk and the number of times hands need to be washed . |
| 17 | When humans cut down the forest , it might be replaced by a permanent grassland because the soil itself had been modified in a way that prevented the trees from reseeding themselves . |
| 18 | Cut down the baby baggage |
| 19 | ‘ In the meantime I suggest we cut down the cross-referencing . |
| 20 | It said 60 anti-guerrilla units cut down the plants in the indigenous area of Aponte in El Tablon , more than 460km ( 312 miles ) southwest of Bogota , at the weekend . |
| 21 | Every other station has , you even have advertising on radio , why ca n't you have it now on B B C One and Two and cut down the eighty pounds ? |
| 22 | Therefore , in the test runs described in the next chapter we cut down the utterance length to no more than 10 words . |
| 23 | Yeah okay yeah , cut down the entertainment that 's not , cut down on the clothes , we would n't buy so many expensive clothes I suppose . |
| 24 | Scrape the soil away from the plant to expose some of its larger roots and cut off a few of these with a sharp knife . |
| 25 | Cut off a narrow strip around the edge and use to line the dampened rim of the pie plate . |
| 26 | Testing machines now exist which have vice-like grips , called ‘ friction grips ’ , so that one can take an ordinary bar of metal , cut off a short length , and break it in tension . |
| 27 | There 's usually a fair amount of hash around , I 'm told , mainly distributed , as elsewhere , by people whose profit consists of a ten-spot , cut off a quarter , for themselves . |
| 28 | The shop-keeper nodded with eventual understanding , cut off a huge bunch of bright green grapes and threw them on to the scales . |
| 29 | One of them showed a pair of slim , naked legs , cut off a fraction of a millimetre below the groin , running through a meadow full of dewy grass and pale blue cornflowers . |
| 30 | Cut off a piece of plant just below the place where the leaves join the stem . |