1 Several branches had been lopped off .

2 I'll need to lop off the lower branches of the tree.

3 Workmen have lopped off more branches in an effort to save the tree.

4 His ponytail had been lopped off.

5 He had his arm lopped off by an electric saw.

6 More than 100 million pounds will be lopped off the prison building programme.

7 I lopped off several pages of my report before submitting it to the meeting.

8 Kanishka's head and torso were lopped off long ago.

9 If he did, it was lopped off.

10 Lopped off brambles lay around and the long grass was all trampled.

11 I see developing trees with only two main growth arteries where one has been lopped off, leaving an odd-looking lopsided thing.

12 She put everything into it, and Ivy simply lopped off everything she said and left it lying there, dead.

13 His swamp-hunter boots could have been an elephant's feet lopped off and hollowed out.

14 Pick your head up to look too far down the road and get it lopped off.

15 The poor rarely fell trees: they mainly lop off small branches, twigs, roots and dead wood.

16 The result looked like an insidious, grey-green growth lopped off an otherwise healthy young tree to protect its trunk.

17 Let's lop off those repeated and empty words.

18 I say, 'Maybe you could lop off the second floor entirely.'

19 His article is too cumbersome. Let's lop off those repeated and empty words.

20 See, the Lord, the LORD Almighty, will lop off the boughs with great power. The lofty trees will be felled, the tall ones will be brought low.

21 See, the Lord, the Lord Almighty, will lop off the boughs with great power.

22 Your article is too cumbersome. Lop off those repeated and empty words.

23 Hrudey was a casualty of a team in dire financial trouble that wanted to lop off its higher-priced and older players.

24 Yep, that, s certainly the way Iran handles its protesters...can you say bullets and dull knives to lop off their heads!

25 To help pare their budgets, more Americans are bypassing the salon and opting to lop off their own locks.

26 You can talk about the origins of French nationalism in the middle of the eighteenth century, but it's very closely tied to this dynasty, at least until they lop off the guy's head in 1793.

27 There he would force him to lie down, and in order to fit him to the bed he would lop off the lower parts of his limbs.

28 It's like waking up one day, realizing you're overweight and deciding the way to fix that is to lop off your left leg below the knee.

29 The downturn has created a nation of cost, and hair- cutters. To help pare their budgets, more Americans are bypassing the salon and opting to lop off their own locks.

30 This would probably have been the case in the French Revolution too, had the movies been invented in time for the likes of Robespierre to lop off the heads of pesky auteurs.

1 I'll need to lop off the lower branches of the tree.

31 It includes details of plans to lop off more than 80 billion pounds ($128 billion) from the government budget between now and 2015 to tackle an 11 percent deficit.

32 But real-estate construction accounts for another third of total investment spending, and its collapse should lop off at least an additional percentage point from economic growth.

33 In all, GM's bankruptcy could lop off 4 percentage points from the U.S. gross domestic product, of which two-thirds is driven by consumer spending, LaVorgna said.

34 He had to lop off whole pages of the report.

35 It's better to lop off long wisps than to try and save them.