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 | A breeze cuts across from the river , bringing that faint Thames aroma that floats up only when cars are off the road . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Swietenia macrophylla and Carapa guianensis cut close to the high water mark and floated downstream on the rising waters . |
| 8 | If the first beatitude cuts sharply across the ways of the world , then this second saying follows hard on its heels . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He deflected the blow , and the razor edge cut deep into the gunwale of the ship . |
| 11 | The Director 's voice cut sharply across the Controller 's tirade . |
| 12 | The train immediately entered the tunnel — a tunnel cut just beneath the surface , of course , not the deep tube . |
| 13 | A path cut precariously into the valley side , sometimes only as wide as an animal 's body , sometimes passing through the cliff itself . |
| 14 | Alirio Parra , OPEC 's president who toured member states in an effort to get support for production cuts ahead of the Vienna meeting , declined to comment last night on the progress at the talks . |
| 15 | Here a thick series of alluvial deposits rests in a basin cut largely in the Upper Jurassic clay formations , the Oxford , Ampthill and Kimeridge Clays . |
| 16 | The thin string handles of the carrier bag cut deep into the palm of Dot 's hand . |