Example sentences of "cut [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had to break out so I kicked a hole in it , you see , but I 've cut my feet … ’ |
| 2 | I would have cut my throat rather than grow up to be like my Mam . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've cut my boss out like a cancer but I ca n't drive past where I used to work , ’ she says . |
| 4 | My first memory is of falling off a rather high bed at the age of three years on the evening that my parents had moved into a house near the top of Hampstead Heath , and of my Father going off on his bicycle to search for a doctor as I had cut my head . |
| 5 | I am sorry my reply is so brief , but having just cut my thumb I am unable to continue writing . |
| 6 | I had cut my hand on the gun : it was n't bleeding much but the little finger was bent sideways and I could n't move it . |
| 7 | If I had lied , I 'm sure they would have cut my throat . |
| 8 | That did the trick — ‘ Of course , ’ recalls the director , ‘ I did n't show him that I had cut my hand in the process . ’ |
| 9 | I 've cut my social life . |
| 10 | I 've cut my mike again . |
| 11 | The Retirement Care Group , a company which specialises in managing retirement schemes , estimates that more than 4,000 sheltered properties are on the market and that builders have cut their original forecast of 12,000 units built this year back to about 8,000 as a result . |
| 12 | This average conceals an important fact : many of the industries that tend to suffer most during recessions ( suppliers of consumer durables , transport and communications , for example ) have actually cut their debt-service burden since 1980 ; the biggest increases in debt service have been taken on by relatively stable industries ( such as producers of services and consumer non-durables ) . |
| 13 | Brokers have cut their expectations for the full year from £30m to £28m , suggesting earnings of just under 15p . |
| 14 | Each zany episode is hermetically sealed , like an extract from one of the late-night TV revues on which both Martin and Hawn have cut their teeth . |
| 15 | A BRC spokeswoman said : ‘ Retailers have already cut their costs as much as they can . |
| 16 | Most analysts have now cut their first quarter forecast , and the views now range from a loss of 64 cents a share to a profit of eight cents — and David Wu of S G Warburg has gone out on a limb with forecast $0.80 a share loss . |
| 17 | While London-based IBCA has held firm to an average AA for the three , S&P and Moody 's have cut their grades to A. At the end of 1992 all three agencies rated them similarly . |
| 18 | Apple Computer Inc , IBM Corp and DEC have cut their prices 40% in Japan , making things highly uncomfortable for microcomputer leader NEC . |
| 19 | Public authorities have , however , minimal expertise in this area , though they have ‘ cut their teeth ’ by developing ‘ specifications for contracts ’ for-non-care services such as cleaning and catering . |
| 20 | Kandel , trained as a psychiatrist , spent a period working on Aplysia with Ladislav Tauc in Paris in the 1960s , saw the potential of the organism , initially for the study of short-term processes such as habituation , and over the subsequent quarter-century in New York he has made its study peculiarly his own and that of the generations of researchers who have cut their teeth in this Columbia laboratory . |
| 21 | On the boat , Johnson asked about ‘ the use of the dirk , with which he imagined the Highlanders cut their meat ’ , and was told they also had knives and forks , that the men tended to hand the knives and forks to the women after they had cut their own meat which they then ate from their hands , and that one old Macdonald retainer always ate fish with his fingers , claiming that ‘ a knife and fork gave it a bad taste ’ . |
| 22 | Many hon. Members on both sides of the House have cut their political teeth in local government and one would expect such Conservative Members to show more loyalty towards it . |
| 23 | William Hill , the other William , immediately cut their price on Wills being crowned by January the first in the year two thousand from twenty five to one to ten to one . |
| 24 | right , well the E E C have cut their grants of all school milk I think you 'll find certainly on that being discovered I would imagine that it 's similar to the County Council . |
| 25 | Some had cut their hair and nails as mementos to return to their families . |
| 26 | While improving the quality of their service to passengers , they 've cut their staff by thirty percent . |
| 27 | The Gunners are now 12 points ahead of struggling Leeds and after six league wins in a row it is little wonder the bookmakers have again cut their odds as title favourites to just 5-4 . |
| 28 | Yes , it is a fact , but what airlines have been forced to do now is cut their costs , reshape , look at where they were losing money , and perhaps that 's a positive thing . |
| 29 | She swam for 40 km ( 25 miles ) in the shark-infested Indian Ocean , but she had cut her foot and she saw half a dozen sharks trailing her . |
| 30 | Having cut her teeth touring with a socialist theatre collective , her formal training has been by a battery of French mime gurus . |