Example sentences of "halfway across the " in BNC.

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1 He also has a smart answer to the real big question about abduction — why exactly do these super-intelligent beings travel halfway across the universe in hi-tech spaceships to stick blunt instruments up people 's bottoms ?
2 But why exactly do these super-intelligent beings travel halfway across the universe in hi-tech spaceships to stick blunt instruments up people 's bottoms ?
3 It lay on Roman Watling Street , and had two old coaching-inns , each with enormous , elaborate wrought-iron signs which stretched halfway across the road .
4 She heard Tim give a shout and saw him stretch out an arm and point towards her , but she-had no fear of capture ; she was over halfway across the marsh .
5 He used to enjoy telling us of the early trials of the Young husband expedition of 1908 which trekked more than halfway across the lonely reaches of Persia and Afghanistan , and over the Himalaya range to Tibet .
6 It 's irritatingly easy to crash at first , as the pushscroll is only activated when you 're more than halfway across the screen , giving you little time to see and avoid hazards .
7 Halfway across the Mediterranean , when the stewardess seemed oddly unresponsive to his overtures , he idly opened the file .
8 Halfway across the site , the earth is scorched , and the remnants of dwellings bear witness to a horrendous fire .
9 Green-skinned warriors will travel halfway across the Old World just to fight alongside a particularly powerful Warlord .
10 How do you share a date when your paramour is unavoidably detained on business in another town halfway across the country ?
11 He had gone halfway across the first field when he heard a cry behind him .
12 But what sort of a man was it who could be kidnapped , bundled into a cart and made to lie on the floor under a rug with a gun at his head while being driven halfway across the city on a cold November afternoon — and then just calmly and quietly fall fast asleep ?
13 ‘ Am I to be dragged halfway across the country in a cart ? ’
14 Halfway across the dock , however , there was a metallic scraping , and the sheet metal forming the outer skin of the oddly shaped bulges in the hull at deck level fell away .
15 They had spilled halfway across the road , and although most of them shuffled quickly aside when they saw the car approaching , four boys gathered themselves quickly into a group and remained standing defiantly in its path .
16 Without waiting for Chuck he strode off in the direction taken by the herd , and halfway across the grassland he let out a roar and dropped to his knees .
17 ‘ So it seems , ’ said Cadfael , and eyed the bushes that encroached halfway across the path .
18 Pushing aside the leaves , she saw him stop halfway across the lawn and bend his head to light a cigarette .
19 Next , mark the finished length from hemline , taken at a quarter of the way across the window ( FH ) , at a position halfway across the fabric .
20 Lee-Wright does n't shrink from naming names and one recognizes many familiar superstore products that originate from some fume-choked hovel halfway across the world .
21 halfway across the classroom , stretched
22 The rickety building rang like a gong , leapt off its foundations and was dragged halfway across the quarry before it fell apart in a shower of rust and smoke .
23 " Well , " he said , " we think we lose a lot of aircraft , because we have been monitoring quite a — few they just disappear from the radar screen 50 miles off the coast , sometimes more , sometimes halfway across the sea if they are making a dash far Flamborough Head .
24 She halted halfway across the carpet , and was aware of his sharp glance going over her bespectacled face and shapeless suit .
25 Well next door but one are having erm double glazed back window , you know that main lounge window and the the guy 's parked halfway across the drive with the van , left it there all in disarray you can just about get your car up and round and brains that some of these people
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