Example sentences of "[noun] cut [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 No wonder he had his work cut out on the bench .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 ‘ What 's he doing ? ’ she cried , agonized , as the picture cut back to the chairman .
8 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 .
9 Wet post cut up for the cook and it 's an anagram of wet post ?
10 A river of golden water surrounded it , flowing between banks cut out of the stone , crossed by four bridges .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 ‘ I do n't care for the notion that Paul Gray had his head cut off in the Cathedral .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 In Conspiration Nizan ironically refers to school life as a barrack-room existence cut off from the reality of the outside world .
18 Round the bend ahead the road ran fairly straight , a narrow ledge cut out of the mountainside .
19 A steep path cut down from the quarry edge to the meadow .
20 According to WWF team leader John McKinnon , the reserve is " like a lost world cut off from the rest of Indo-China " .
21 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 . ’
22 Wide-eyed , Robbie backed away , but found her retreat cut off by the worktop .
23 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 .
24 The landed gentry of Europe have become a leisured class cut off from the peasantry and increasingly divorced from the authority of scripture .
25 The other finger-ring key on the right of the photograph has a slot cut out of the bit , with notches on the end .
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