Example sentences of "[vb past] cut [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then we tried to cut across the fields at the bottom and that was a mistake , they were all ploughed up . |
| 2 | The former soldier grew even angrier when he tried to cut through the metal with the hacksaw but failed . |
| 3 | The Royal Navy moved to cut off the raiders , but fog allowed them to slip past . |
| 4 | Well I was just tidying myself up , och just a week lick of lipstick and a puffa blusher basically when I noticed that my mascara was on its last legs so I had to remind myself to stop by at Frazers Innoxa counter as any other tearproof bar theirs brings me out in lumps , so to cut a long story short I just nicked in the sidedoor — honest to god I was festooned with carriers laden down like a workhouse donkey — and I 'd to cut through the shoe department . |
| 5 | These weaknesses were exploited by the Bolsheviks in 1917 when Vikzhel , the old railway trade union , threatened to cut off the capital and the government from the rest of Russia unless Lenin listened to its political demands . |
| 6 | He had arrived by bus , now he decided to cut across the Heath , through Greenwich Park and to Rose 's flat . |
| 7 | While in screwing the top , I moved it over slightly to give clearance for my jigsaw blade , and started to cut off the overlap . |
| 8 | He got cut on the hand . |
| 9 | He still had thick black unruly hair , which he now wore cut in a DA . |
| 10 | With a steel rule held firmly in position to guide a heavy-duty craft knife which is held at an angle , make a clean , bevelled cut between the pin holes to create the window . |
| 11 | The English fleet , once at sea , managed to cut across the bows of the Spaniards , then turned to pursue them up the channel . |
| 12 | They did cut through the door , I swear it . ’ |
| 13 | A young man , eighteen years old , a student at Essex University , had cut off the head of one of his teachers , accusing him of handing out unfairly poor marks . |
| 14 | Pascoe 's original position , behind the dinghies , had cut off the route to the storage hut and that other means of getting to the street . |
| 15 | Lightning from the storm had cut off the electricity and the cell was illuminated by a bronze dish filled with flickering candles . |
| 16 | This level should , Leathart advised , be pushed on with speed to the Great Cross-course , and then on to the second fault , seen in the northern end of Fleming 's , which had cut off the vein , and there to institute a search . |
| 17 | He had cut off the girl 's head and put it next to her father 's on the garden path , where they had been found by a neighbour . |
| 18 | Partition had cut off the Pomeranian Poles from the areas of Poland that might have sustained a more confident sense of Polish national identity . |
| 19 | During the night I cut firewood for them , and added it secretly to the wood which the young man had cut during the day . |
| 20 | That was half full of water and the ice had cut through the wood flow down the river , cos the water was coming in like hell and er cos one thing I had to do about it , had like a chain in the , in th in the boat , so we pulled the chain out , I pulled the chain out first and go just got the , the erm hull just above water so I bail the boat out with a bucket chuck it down the side right quick . |
| 21 | The current had cut into a hillside on the upriver side of the bend so that he would be faced with a steep climb of some fifty feet . |
| 22 | The shortened burst of automatic fire from Nell 's Uzi had cut into the night and was gone before it could be properly assimilated . |
| 23 | They had told her in hospital that the glass had cut into an artery and she had needed transfusions but although she had felt far from well this morning she was certainly feeling worse now . |
| 24 | All that could be seen of Daak was his chainsword , silent now and held aloft as Daak disappeared through the hole he had cut in the floor . |
| 25 | Gabriel had cut inside the turn and was racing to meet them on their other flank . |
| 26 | She hovered for a brief time over the trunk of the tree , tears streaming from her eyes , shuddering as the axes continued to cut into the wood , shaking her head from side to side . |
| 27 | So you had to cut round the doorstep , cut round it , |