Example sentences of "[adj] way down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In winter , some way down into the darkness outside , there shone a square of light , and outlined within this square was a head . |
| 2 | Oh about erm three feet deep I reckon they were , I mean to load up er eight hundred tonnes , which we average these hoppers out at , er er we were getting a good soil we 'd load up eight hundred tonne in an hour and a half to two hours , between hour and a half to two hours we 'd be loaded , that 's all depend on what you was dredging , you might be interested in and , and go quicker , if you were dredging greenfly that 's be alright you 'd , if you dredged peat well that hopper would be full but it would n't be half lo it 'd be half loaded you see , be half way down to the plimsoll mark . |
| 3 | It 's up here and I 'll sell two twenty new bidder two twenty now two twenty then it 's half way down on the left at two twenty and I 'll sell at two two forty two sixty still against you two sixty , it 's down there and I 'll sell at two hundred and sixty pounds . |
| 4 | What visitors to Foxton now see , either from above or below , is a staircase series of two lock flights , separated half way down by a large passing pond , with intermediate side ponds stepping up the east side of the flight . |
| 5 | At the sound of his name , he swallowed his tea , excused himself and , followed at a step behind by Leroy Burns , made his portly way down to the lobby . |
| 6 | Boardwalk was not a joy to ride , Kelly reflected as the horse made its lumbering way down to the start . |
| 7 | It 's a long way down into the gulch . |
| 8 | It 's a long way down to the water but I can see a fag packet bobbing along . |
| 9 | GONE : It 's a long way down for a reporter whose life is hanging by a thread |
| 10 | This is quite a long way down for coins of this period and it would explain why I was n't finding anything earlier . |
| 11 | But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ? |
| 12 | Further along the path , also on the right , are small fissures in the clints that may be passed unnoticed : one of these , Flood Entrance Pot , was the first alternative way down into Gaping Gill when the main shaft was impassable . |
| 13 | Her mother , Gayle , puts her winning ways down to a combination of looks and personality . |
| 14 | Iago dug his heels into his fat pony 's ribs , and took the shortest way down into the Dee valley , riding hard for Shrewsbury . |
| 15 | ‘ What your map may not show is that the only way down to Thira anchorage is by mule-track down a precipitous cliff . |
| 16 | Forsaken as a route of any merit in ascent , it is the obligatory way down for parties summitting from the classic South Ridge of West Face climbs . |
| 17 | Palazzo Castiglioni stands across Corso Venezia and a little way down from Palazzo Rocca-Saporiti . |
| 18 | The village of Roncevaux is a short way beyond and a little way down from the col ; it consists mainly of the very military-looking monastery and attendant Gothic church created there in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries for the service of pilgrims . |
| 19 | Strichen lies a little way down from the left shoulder of Scotland along which they travelled to reach Inverness . |
| 20 | We 'll go the other way down to the superstore because there 's traffic lights down at the end of our road . |