Example sentences of "cut through " in BNC.

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1 The path turned inland and met the road to Sandweg which cut through arable land , punctuated by low , brooding barns .
2 If the new mall is to be covered , probably the best option is for it to be glazed in the manner of the arcades which cut through many nineteenth-century blocks .
3 I cut through shallow , sandy hills , but the struggle was anaesthetized by day-dreams .
4 It can still put across simple , direct feelings which cut through all the nonsense that goes into the selling of it .
5 Take your graft — the short-handled spade with the curved blade — cut through the surface layer , whether grass or whatever , and remove it intact as a circle some 18 inches ( 45 centimetres ) in diameter .
6 He had ideas which cut through the mass of tradition and very dull detail which hung around materials work everywhere but unfortunately nobody took them very seriously .
7 Amitha : It was the Equal Opportunities Policy which cut through all the contradictions .
8 Cut through the Arch Duke 's sleevenotes and poems ( a bit hippy ) to discover that he is funnier and more inventive than at any time in the intervening years .
9 That was provided by the French foreign minister , Robert Schuman , who in May 1950 cut through all the objections and hesitations within the European debate to propose a pooling of coal and steel resources .
10 Jaq had learned all this during his training in the headquarters of the Inquisition , that labyrinth many contorted thousands of kilometres in extent which cut through the bed-rock deep beneath the massive concealing ice-cap of Earth 's south polar continent .
11 I cut through it on each side and did the same to the binding on his ankles .
12 John Smith , Minister For Industry , today [ date ] cut through a symbolic piece of red tape at Tadchester New Town to mark the launch of the very first English Development Zone .
13 As soon as her mind registered what it had seen she jumped away from the car door , a scream issuing from her that cut through the night air .
14 I cut through the alley at the end of the Cours and wandered into the Café du Coin , the crucible of Reine les Falaises and once a place well known to Montaine .
15 Low-voltage lights are a good idea as you wo n't get an electric shock from them , even if you cut through the cable when digging .
16 ‘ We cut through the crap that exists in ski teaching . ’
17 Directions for the great north-south coastal highway came up and suddenly we were on a dual carriageway that cut through the remains of a giant sand slide .
18 His head was throbbing and his body was a bruise radiating from a single abscess of pain that cut through him at every step .
19 As heavy fighting took place at Orasje , Brcko and Gradacac , the three main towns in the corridor still under Croatian control , Croatian forces on Oct. 10 cut through the Serbian-controlled corridor near Brcko ; the area was retaken , however , on Oct. 12 .
20 The road wound gradually upwards towards the Downs — only the English could call uplands downs — until I was clear of the motorways which cut through Kent like the prongs of a carving fork stabbing at France .
21 The village was lit by a swathe of sunlight which cut through the morning mist .
22 We cut through Managers Street into Coldharbour — a narrow street , hard on the riverside , one of those enclosed lanes you find around docks .
23 The World Bank 's funding of a highway that cut through central and west Brazil with " devastating " results was also cited .
24 They cut through her impatiently .
25 His voice dropped lower , taking on a steely edge that cut through the air .
26 They cut through a cable controlling signalling equipment then put a bed frame on the line at Den Road in Kirkcaldy just before 10pm on Monday .
27 And I tell you another thing I noticed , I cut through the car park in the lane behind Shirley 's one day this week , I went through and and the back door of the old police station 's open .
28 Oh Serlison High , I cut through there going to , when I 'm going to work .
29 erm , oh cut through over there I suppose I was thinking the other day when I worked out that money for Saturday is it , it came to something like two pound eighty when you had Jordan
30 The Cohens were situated a little below the halfway mark , just below the grand boulevard that cuts through the neighbourhood .
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