Example sentences of "[vb past] all [art] way " in BNC.

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1 And flying up and down the stairs full of gin and nooky — no wonder she tripped and crashed all the way down . ’
2 Comments ranged all the way from excellent to poor with the majority being in the good to very good range .
3 Well I think it was I mean that erm we when you dredge from the Causeway I 'd say near the Harbourmaster 's office and we dredged all the way to Botterman 's Bay just below Pinmill and that Botterman 's Bay was that 's a place where they had and that 's where the big ships used to moor then and they used to get .. be lightened , like all grain goods and that used to be loaded into barges by hand and then when it goes so light they used to the fish with about three thousand grain in 'em and then they used to fill them up in the dock , on the same method .
4 ‘ So I swam all the way through High School , and I was never in a band because of that .
5 Ronni fumed all the way back to the villa .
6 There 'll be some fine tuning involved all the way along .
7 ‘ Poor me , ’ said Rhoda , ‘ poor me , ’ and she poured herself another cup of sweet strong tea , which burned all the way down .
8 Well , drove all the way up .
9 The dancer , on her way back to the United States , took Dana in her VW to Lisbon , Porto and Bilbao , where I met them , then we drove all the way to Paris .
10 We drove all the way down in the snow but they caught us and said we could n't have them ; not surprisingly I suppose . ’
11 For several years we drove all the way down from Hertfordshire to Cornwall , very slowly , starting in the early hours of the morning and arriving about tea-time , if we were lucky .
12 Alec drove all the way , with breaks of course , and it was a marvellous experience .
13 He responded , drove all the way back to the city , laced on his boots and proceeded to play a blinder .
14 I stopped long enough to recharge , then pedalled up the Arrow Valley , crossed a ridge of hills and then freewheeled all the way down to the largest second hand bookshop in the world at Hay-on-Wye .
15 She told him her perfume came all the way from Hollywood , in America , where she herself would have been living these last nine years if only Frankie 's birth had not robbed her of the life of glamour and excitement she deserved .
16 Her shoes came all the way from America , where such things were only worn by famous film-stars .
17 In the autumn a Ghanaian came all the way from Dortmund , about 220 miles , to buy a Bride 's Bible !
18 Talbot said : ‘ You came all the way up to the bridge , Jimmy , just to spread sweetness and light , your own special brand of Job 's comfort ? ’
19 It came all the way down there then . ’
20 Well that story came all the way from Africa .
21 And if you also look the most the the the clearest change that 's happened on the outside of this building , if you look at that window , if you if you follow the edge of the window the original window came all the way down to this point , and then across and up , and this has been all blocked up .
22 The sky was grey and came all the way down to the ground .
23 ‘ You mean you came all the way into Nice to get something that could be fitted into an envelope ? ’
24 Look , ’ she added sharply , aware of her pink cheeks and his mocking expression , ‘ I came all the way here to work , not to be insulted by you about my appearance , and I 'd like to get on , the light 's beginning to fade — is that all right with you ? ’
25 It came and sniffed around the edges , and gradually came all the way out .
26 This couple came all the way from Staffordshire because of the Forest 's growing biking reputation and will definitely be back for more .
27 Oh yeah , hang on , I ca n't think who they are but they came all the way .
28 , trolley came all the way down here , out through here and in the car park .
29 Not even a subdued Botham — applauded all the way to the crease but playing his first innings for five months — could rally the troops , fading after a bright start which yielded two boundaries , and eventually mis-timing to mid-off .
30 It was raining when her flight arrived at Heathrow and it rained all the way back to her flat in Islington .
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