Example sentences of "[noun] was cut [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later the woman 's benefit was cut off on the grounds that she and her lodger were living together as husband and wife , and he must therefore maintain her . |
| 2 | Irrigation was cut off by the authorities on Aug. 22 in the Andalucian Guadalquivir valley ( south-western Spain ) , and also in Castille-La Mancha at the beginning of October . |
| 3 | ‘ Get — ’ Ace was cut off by the jolt of the speeder coming to rest . |
| 4 | His left leg was cut off above the knee and he walked with a crutch under his left shoulder . |
| 5 | The Viking Hotel in York was cut off by the River Ouse after rising water stopped work on a new pumping station designed to stop flooding . |
| 6 | The disease has now reinvaded the American tropics , whence it had been absent since migration from Asia was cut off by the world upheavals of 1914–18 . |
| 7 | THIS NEWSPAPER PHOTO WAS CUT OFF UNDER THE CHIN FOR SECURITY REASONS , SO THAT THE BRASS PATHFINDER BROOCH WAS NOT SHOWN . |
| 8 | Catalonia was cut off from the rest of the Republic by then and slowly being strangled to death . |
| 9 | One version is that the route was cut off by the rising tide ; the Welsh swooped , and drove the English into the sea . |
| 10 | But this passageway was cut through in the seventeenth century if not earlier . |
| 11 | The privilege half illustrated was issued to a female as a hunk was cut out of the top of the ticket , and could have been used by the one lady employee , or the wife or female dependant of an employee of the B.C.R. , or any other railway , who took a ride on the 17th January 1934 . |
| 12 | Each table was cut off from the next by screens of greenery ; even so , from where he sat he had a view of what was happening at other tables and on other levels . |