Example sentences of "way [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A SOLDIER was critically injured yesterday after driving the wrong way down a fogbound motorway . |
| 2 | A BOOZY taxi driver drove 14 miles the WRONG WAY down a dual carriageway at night . |
| 3 | Obispal spotted a lone purestrain Stealer lurking some way down a dismal arcade lined by shuttered clothing stores . |
| 4 | This means you can shoot your way down a line of troops , picking off each one in turn . |
| 5 | This means you can shoot your way down a line of troops , picking off each one in turn . |
| 6 | This means you can shoot your way down a line of troops , picking off each one in turn . |
| 7 | It lay a third of the way down a dim hallway . |
| 8 | It hung two-thirds of the way down a nine-feet drop and kept coming , then paused . |
| 9 | She led the way down a short and curving hall into the lounge — a rugged expanse of blue and gold that seemed to glow in the light admitted by three high windows . |
| 10 | I found my way down a communication trench . |
| 11 | Dear Horace , I think I may be a bit late with this as here in the antipodes , and especially being some way down a circulation list , your column takes some weeks to reach me . |
| 12 | The car was eventually stopped after driving the wrong way down a dual carriageway . |
| 13 | He slipped through the open toilet door and saw Lee standing half way down the long , flagged passage . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Just another five minutes , ’ Nick begged , not taking his eyes from the ball as he whacked it half way down the table . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Half way down the companion he stopped , and it was as though the whole length of the hold moved towards him in a body . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Half way down the passageway , the van stopped moving . |
| 23 | INSURANCE was the furthest thing from Pat Whyte 's mind as she edged her way down an Austrian ski slope . |
| 24 | Instead of the expansive , though often rough , Michigan highways of Motown , US , we quickly , sometimes dramatically , threaded our way up a narrow zig-zagging ribbon of blacktop that would probe the credentials of any car , regardless of its origins . |
| 25 | Afterwards Aunt Louise came and took me to her room , leading the way up a strange little creaking curving staircase . |
| 26 | She led the way up a flight of stairs , shouting a greeting as they passed the entrance to the ball-scryer 's receiving room on the ground floor . |
| 27 | A third of the way up a vicious-looking ice-climb were two men , slowly hacking an unenviable route with axes and crampons . |
| 28 | There were lots of people in plastic rain hoods puffing their way up a huge , cobbled stairway , complaining at how wide apart the steps had been laid . |
| 29 | A small bone assemblage was collected below a nest in a small cave part way up a low cliff in Qatar . |
| 30 | The nun who admitted them appeared to be covered from head to foot apart from her eyes , nose , and mouth , for after she had bolted the gate behind them she tucked her bare hands into her sleeves , then led the way up a gravel path , on either side of which a lawn extended as far as a further high , stone wall , its top also embedded with glass . |