Example sentences of "[noun prp] cut a " in BNC.

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1 Yorkshire wanted 145 from the last 20 overs and they seemed to have lost their way when Sachin Tendulkar needlessly ran himself out and Richard Blakey cut a hard catch to Trump .
2 Oxford captain Michael Patton cut a desolate figure after his second successive Varsity defeat .
3 Assistant Editor , Hellena Barnes cut a dash with her scissors ; Art Editor Sarah Vernot got going with her trusty scalpel and Editor Sue Rouse added the finishing touches .
4 Singer Paula Kelly cuts a curious sight cross-legged on the stage-floor for ‘ Happen ’ , head bowed to her knees , screaming to herself , but Courtney or Kat she ai n't .
5 Langbaurgh mayor Coun Arthur Harvison cut a birthday cake at the Redcar Leisure Centre yesterday to celebrate its ten years in business .
6 Murray cut a small neat slice and put it deftly on her plate .
7 Shelley cut a grapefruit in half and squeezed the juice .
8 SET IN the dipping wooded hills of Lambton Park , through which the wide and tidal Wear cuts a deep valley , this grandest of early Georgian houses looks south down a long wide avenue , smothered solid with daffodils in the spring .
9 Mason cuts a battered but defiant figure .
10 Mason cuts a battered but defiant figure .
11 Diana cut a nondescript figure in her checked shirt , her sister 's anorak , cords and wellington boots .
12 Doomsday cuts a swathe across the States and takes on Superman in a clash of the titans .
13 South-east Cambridgeshire MP James Paice cut a ribbon to mark the completion of the £5.5 million one-and-a-half mile scheme which takes 25,000 vehicles a day .
14 In the city itself , the cathedral was the province of an autonomous dean and chapter ; further afield , the extensive deanery of South Malling cut a swathe through Sussex to Kent , and the diocese of the archbishop , whose ‘ peculiar ’ it was and whose palace at Mayfield dominated the north-eastern Weald .
15 If they 're not irretrievably addled , the puppies from Por Tanssie cut a sharp caper .
16 THE COMPANY celebrated ten years of offshore contracts in December with a party in Aberdeen , where chairman Frank Bell cut a specially prepared birthday cake .
17 The following morning , after breakfast , a bruised Clare cut a photograph of herself from the local newspaper ; luckily , her face was totally obscured by the banner , which had wrapped itself around her like a winding sheet .
18 Greeted by record breaking ice floes , the ship is pictured here en route to Montreal with the Canadian ice breaker , Terry Fox cutting a path through thick patches of ice on the S Lawrence River .
19 Pictured are consultants Myrddin Rees and Colin Jardine Brown , trustee Lady Fraser and keyhole patient Gordon Stockham cutting a cake celebrating ten years of fundraising achievements and the genesis of the new project .
20 Captured by Beaton : C.Z. cutting a dash at the Feria in Seville ( above ) .
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