Example sentences of "cut [adv prt] [det] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation was triggered by an arbitrary cut in the pay of sailors hired to rig the Guineaman Derby who , in protest , cut down all the rigging . |
| 2 | As Plutarch says ( Aratos xvi ) of the Akrokorinth : ‘ it hinders and cuts off all the country south of the Isthmus from intercourse , transits , and the carrying on of military expeditions by land and sea , and makes him who controls the place with a garrison sole lord of Greece . ’ |
| 3 | That 's right and put your paddle in that and you scull you had to come down every time and many a time people 'd learn that that paddle will come out , but once you got the knack of it you could do it one hand , cos you was cutting down all the time like that 's what it was . |
| 4 | The only way to win a war of attrition is by halting the enemy 's advance and cutting off all the aggressor 's supply lines . |
| 5 | all the things that 's like and ours , I say with ours they 're cutting back and cutting back all the time until I mean it 's under funded now , it 's under staffed already , thirty seven , thirty eight in the class , so what do they do now , they want to save seven million on education |