Example sentences of "[noun sg] cut [adv] to the " in BNC.
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1 | I went into the garden where I made an H-shaped cut through to the nest with a spade . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ What 's he doing ? ’ she cried , agonized , as the picture cut back to the chairman . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Swietenia macrophylla and Carapa guianensis cut close to the high water mark and floated downstream on the rising waters . |
7 | As soon as they were over the bridge , a driveway cut off to the left and their way was barred by huge wrought-iron gates . |
8 | If a factory chimney dumps smoke on a thousand gardens nearby it may be very expensive to collect 1 from each household to bribe the factory to cut back to the socially efficient amount . |
9 | It was time to cut through to the heart of the matter . |