Example sentences of "[noun sg] cut [adv] [prep] the " 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 | ‘ It 's not right for politicians to offer a sanitised campaign cut off from the people they 're asking to elect them , ’ he said . |
| 6 | I feel that the PR team have their work cut out at the best of times without the likes of Mr. Wigmore and his cheap , sensationalist style of so-called journalism . |
| 7 | No wonder he had his work cut out on the bench . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It 's all part of a plan to cut down on the quantity of rubbish being taken to already overflowing landfill sites . |
| 10 | A breeze cuts across from the river , bringing that faint Thames aroma that floats up only when cars are off the road . |
| 11 | ‘ What 's he doing ? ’ she cried , agonized , as the picture cut back to the chairman . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Wet post cut up for the cook and it 's an anagram of wet post ? |
| 14 | The main themes that Bukharin pursued were : ( 1 ) the need to cut down on the excessive unproductive consumption of the state bureaucracy ; and ( 2 ) the need to draw the widest possible strata of the people into the planning process and into controlling the state . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't care for the notion that Paul Gray had his head cut off in the Cathedral . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She turned , arms flailing , head back , eyes open — but the gaping mouth would utter no more prophecies , her breath cut off by the red garrotte cord round her scrawny neck . |
| 23 | In Conspiration Nizan ironically refers to school life as a barrack-room existence cut off from the reality of the outside world . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was indeed a performance to get your hair cut there as the two elderly unmarried brothers quite unwittingly put on a music hall act . |
| 26 | When , at the end of the Second World War , France was liberated , those who had collaborated excessively with the Germans often had their hair cut off by the French Resistance . |
| 27 | In the attempt to win society 's approval by a cultured ministry that had both sweetness and light , would Nonconformity produce a ministry cut off from the faithful ? |
| 28 | Swietenia macrophylla and Carapa guianensis cut close to the high water mark and floated downstream on the rising waters . |
| 29 | If the first beatitude cuts sharply across the ways of the world , then this second saying follows hard on its heels . |
| 30 | In a bwlch or mountain pass the road cut deeply at the highest place straight through the ridge to show as a notch afar off . |