Example sentences of "[vb past] to cut [adv] [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 | 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | He liked to cut directly into the stone , relishing its firm crisp quality . |
| 5 | 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 . |