Example sentences of "[vb past] cut [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These icy cold droplets seemed to cut through to the bone as if to punish him for the way he was . |
| 2 | To save time , I determined to cut straight across the desert to Afdam instead of returning by the longer route we had come by . |
| 3 | Britain finally became cut off from the Continent at the Straits of Dover around 6500 BC , although it may have been somewhat later between East Anglia and northern Europe via the Dogger Bank . |
| 4 | Unfortunately he got cut off in the middle of a sentence . ’ |
| 5 | If anyone thinks my language exaggerated or highly coloured — and such there might well be , considering that no one here under pensionable age can have any recollection of a world without rent restriction or subsidised rents — let him recall another upas tree which we only managed to cut down in the nick of time ten years ago . |
| 6 | There was little noise from outside the windows and we appeared cut off from the city and from civilian life in general ; I lay in bed and pulled the sheets up over my nose . |
| 7 | He liked to cut directly into the stone , relishing its firm crisp quality . |
| 8 | The rest of the wall was stained with damp and flaking brown paint ; the winters had cut deeply into the fabric of the old serail . |
| 9 | So you 're doing exactly what we were telling you to do a few weeks ago , that you had to er take money out of reserves or you had to cut down on the level of services if you were to avoid putting that thirty four pounds on the council tax bills this year . |