Example sentences of "[noun] cut [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One was a good deal cut up by the war , ’ she answered . |
| 2 | This game is similar to games you would buy for 2–6 year olds that had Zoo animals cut out of the board with little pins on them , The child would try to fit the animal back into the right shape . |
| 3 | I went into the garden where I made an H-shaped cut through to the nest with a spade . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not right for politicians to offer a sanitised campaign cut off from the people they 're asking to elect them , ’ he said . |
| 5 | No wonder he had his work cut out on the bench . |
| 6 | But of course there is some choice erm let me give you a final southern er Africa example of this , Botswana geographically is one of those countries cut off from the sea , it 's a very large country but much of it is uninhabitable because it 's so arid it 's therefore a small country by almost any standards , number of people , the economy of er of Botswana is small and it 's frankly dependent upon South Africa in many ways for its transport , for its economic wellbeing , for the movement of people erm and even some educational resources . |
| 7 | And then Boy cut back to the man on the bed , who was saying ( actually it was a different man in a different room , Boy realised ; the sofa and the quilted nylon counterpane were in a different colour in this room , though the man sitting there looked just like the last one ) , the man was saying I like your shoes , please take off your shoes ; and Boy cut backwards and forwards between this man and the politician beginning to lose his self-control and saying I would just ask people to forgive me really and to forgive my wife as well . |
| 8 | ‘ What 's he doing ? ’ she cried , agonized , as the picture cut back to the chairman . |
| 9 | Instead Ford has decided not to pass the Government 's tax cut on to the motorist but to pour it into its own pockets and profits . |
| 10 | Wet post cut up for the cook and it 's an anagram of wet post ? |
| 11 | A river of golden water surrounded it , flowing between banks cut out of the stone , crossed by four bridges . |
| 12 | It was tight above , with a pale pink " vee " for modesty in the front , and the back cut down to the coccyx , with another little " vee " there too . |
| 13 | There were rumours that a pied-billed grebe had settled on ‘ Little Sea ’ , a freshwater lagoon cut off from the coast by the gradual build-up of sand dunes . |
| 14 | There was a flurry of constitutional activity between 1906 and 1914 , and the House of Lords had its powers cut back by the Parliament Act , 1911 , so formally putting the " balanced " constitution to rest . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't care for the notion that Paul Gray had his head cut off in the Cathedral . |
| 16 | A natural response to this state of affairs would be to say that theory cut off from the writing of literature is no more than a sterile academicism . |
| 17 | There were times when the ministry of her Son left her feeling cut out of the action , and she was amazed and perhaps frightened at what she had unleashed on the world . |
| 18 | In Conspiration Nizan ironically refers to school life as a barrack-room existence cut off from the reality of the outside world . |
| 19 | Round the bend ahead the road ran fairly straight , a narrow ledge cut out of the mountainside . |
| 20 | Having laid the foundations , you simply cover them with a layer of sand about 50mm deep , and level this off , using a straight-edge cut out at the ends to just under the depth of the bricks , say about 90mm . |
| 21 | A steep path cut down from the quarry edge to the meadow . |
| 22 | According to WWF team leader John McKinnon , the reserve is " like a lost world cut off from the rest of Indo-China " . |
| 23 | Each one of them is in some way cut off from the rest of society : Hywel because he 's a miserable sod , Angharad because something went awfully wrong , and Beuno because he 's fallen in love with God . ’ |
| 24 | Wide-eyed , Robbie backed away , but found her retreat cut off by the worktop . |
| 25 | As soon as they were over the bridge , a driveway cut off to the left and their way was barred by huge wrought-iron gates . |
| 26 | The landed gentry of Europe have become a leisured class cut off from the peasantry and increasingly divorced from the authority of scripture . |
| 27 | At Glenegedale there is Driom a mhuillinn — Ridge of the mill and to the north of Port Ellen is Cnoc na Cloiche-muilinn Millstone Hill where there are a number of unfinished mill stones cut out of the rocks . |
| 28 | The other finger-ring key on the right of the photograph has a slot cut out of the bit , with notches on the end . |