Example sentences of "way down the " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 He slipped through the open toilet door and saw Lee standing half way down the long , flagged passage .
2 An imaginary line half way down the foot is compatible to the body 's waist line ; so the organs in the upper part of the body have reflex areas in the upper foot and the lower organs are linked to the lower foot .
3 ‘ Just another five minutes , ’ Nick begged , not taking his eyes from the ball as he whacked it half way down the table .
4 The drainage dyke was probably half way down the 1000 metres I had expected and I have easily , in the past , landed the aircraft inside 400 metres .
5 I was half way down the alley between the walls with the hope bright before me that my patient would be improved when from nowhere an appalling explosion of sound blasted into my right ear .
6 Half way down the companion he stopped , and it was as though the whole length of the hold moved towards him in a body .
7 Yet she was pleased , nevertheless , to see him sitting half way down the church , resplendent in silver grey and the very fanciest of brocade waistcoats imaginable .
8 To look for small changes in the transition frequency , it is sufficient to take measurements at two points , one each side of the central peak , roughly half way down the peak .
9 As it was I got Doreen because Duncan was half way down the garden path ( all three feet of it ) on his way to the pub .
10 Half way down the passageway , the van stopped moving .
  Next page