Example sentences of "[vb past] cut [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , that — I , er — got cut up on the rocks canoeing , Matron . |
| 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 | Bodie had cut up through the rows of parked cars , swinging up onto the half ramp , and pumping two shots into the van 's front tyre . |
| 8 | 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 . |