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 I went into the garden where I made an H-shaped cut through to the nest with a spade .
4 ‘ It 's not right for politicians to offer a sanitised campaign cut off from the people they 're asking to elect them , ’ he said .
5 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 .
6 No wonder he had his work cut out on the bench .
7 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 .
8 ‘ What 's he doing ? ’ she cried , agonized , as the picture cut back to the chairman .
9 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 .
10 Wet post cut up for the cook and it 's an anagram of wet post ?
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 ‘ I do n't care for the notion that Paul Gray had his head cut off in the Cathedral .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 In Conspiration Nizan ironically refers to school life as a barrack-room existence cut off from the reality of the outside world .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 ?
24 Swietenia macrophylla and Carapa guianensis cut close to the high water mark and floated downstream on the rising waters .
25 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 .
26 He deflected the blow , and the razor edge cut deep into the gunwale of the ship .
27 The Director 's voice cut sharply across the Controller 's tirade .
28 The tomb chamber is a relatively small square chamber cut out of the living rock of the Gypsades hillside .
29 The train immediately entered the tunnel — a tunnel cut just beneath the surface , of course , not the deep tube .
30 Round the bend ahead the road ran fairly straight , a narrow ledge cut out of the mountainside .
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