Example sentences of "he cut [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Some of these were too hard to be blown , in which case he cut with the point of a penknife or of a small knife adapted for the purpose , an oval-shaped piece of the shell out of the side , emptied the egg , and replaced the shell . ’
2 He cut off the rest of the frantic protest with his mouth , wrenching her against him and covering her angrily parted lips with his own .
3 I gave him my sword , and at once he cut off the head of his enemy .
4 With his own hands he cut off the beards of leading courtiers and ordered all noblemen to abandon this ancient symbol of Orthodox manhood .
5 A little farther on he cut across the strip of parched grass known as the Villa Comunale which separated Via Caracciolo from the long parallel sweep of the Riviera di Chiaia and made his way up the hill again , away from the bay .
6 In the dark he cut across the grass by the tractor-shed , then back behind a row of buildings where there was an old cow-byre that they did n't use any more except for storing stuff .
7 He cut across the grass , stepping between and over the outstretched bodies .
8 His blazer studded with drawing pins in homage to Presley 's cloth of gold , he cut through the verbiage with a revolutionary cry for the times .
9 Doyle was parked further away , and he cut round the side road , walking briskly alongside the high , wooden fence .
10 In his first experiment he cut from a sheet of mica a normal hour-glass shaped test-piece ( Figure 6(b) ) .
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