Example sentences of "[noun sg] cut [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was wearing a linen suit the colour of pale watercress soup , with the skirt cut just above the knee . |
| 2 | ‘ One was a good deal cut up by the war , ’ she answered . |
| 3 | Stella the personnel administrator will not simply push paper around in Personnel but will take action to cut down on the bureaucracy . |
| 4 | I went into the garden where I made an H-shaped cut through to the nest with a spade . |
| 5 | No wonder he had his work cut out on the bench . |
| 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 | It 's all part of a plan to cut down on the quantity of rubbish being taken to already overflowing landfill sites . |
| 8 | A breeze cuts across from the river , bringing that faint Thames aroma that floats up only when cars are off the road . |
| 9 | ‘ What 's he doing ? ’ she cried , agonized , as the picture cut back to the chairman . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Wet post cut up for the cook and it 's an anagram of wet post ? |
| 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 | ‘ I do n't care for the notion that Paul Gray had his head cut off in the Cathedral . |
| 15 | The French men were identically garbed in black trousers and " le smoking " — a white dinner jacket cut away at the waist — while the women wore dresses from shops in the Rue Catinat fashionable enough to allow them to forget that the Rue de la Paix was a twelve-thousand-mile sea journey away . |
| 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 | Always ask for a slice cut freshly from the salame and do not expect to get the true flavour from a pre-cut chunk on a plate . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In Conspiration Nizan ironically refers to school life as a barrack-room existence cut off from the reality of the outside world . |
| 20 | He had a large head with his hair cut right into the wood , piggy eyes and a broad flat nose that looked like it had been well punched in its day . |
| 21 | He deflected the blow , and the razor edge cut deep into the gunwale of the ship . |
| 22 | The Director 's voice cut sharply across the Controller 's tirade . |
| 23 | The train immediately entered the tunnel — a tunnel cut just beneath the surface , of course , not the deep tube . |
| 24 | Round the bend ahead the road ran fairly straight , a narrow ledge cut out of the mountainside . |
| 25 | A steep path cut down from the quarry edge to the meadow . |
| 26 | A path cut precariously into the valley side , sometimes only as wide as an animal 's body , sometimes passing through the cliff itself . |
| 27 | According to WWF team leader John McKinnon , the reserve is " like a lost world cut off from the rest of Indo-China " . |
| 28 | Thus , where a council was developing hostel accommodation to cut down on the use of bed-and-breakfast placements there was no provision within that hostel accommodation for disabled people . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | Wide-eyed , Robbie backed away , but found her retreat cut off by the worktop . |