Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adj] way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the last good book I read , this means that I am half way through my time travel , my travel through time . |
| 2 | Er , well I 'm , I 'm just in the middle of , I 'm sign writing a vehicle and I 'm half way through the letters and I 've got a , I 've got ta finish that off before I can get into my stock . |
| 3 | It 's just , er the only problem is I 'm half way through treatment and I do n't think |
| 4 | I was half way up the road when I saw the fire engine come . |
| 5 | the dining chairs , I 've had everything out at least I have n't cleaned the windows but , I was half way through , well I was almost finished , I 'd just just done the stairs though and Bernie came ! |
| 6 | Once you uncover the cause , the theory goes that you are half way to solving the particular problem that concerns you . |
| 7 | Once you have established fault , you are half way to proving your claim . |
| 8 | Once you have established fault , you are half way to proving your claim . |
| 9 | Try to give the impression you are half way through doing a domestic chore . |
| 10 | And then she 'll sleep she wo n't sleep actually in the airing cupboard , she 'll sleep so the door 's wide open and she 's half way across the la , and she sleeps you know |
| 11 | I mean there was a classic case a couple of years ago of a lady who was pushing a baby in a pram across a zebra crossing and as she was half way across out of the corner of her eye she saw a truck thundering towards her which was quite clearly was n't going to stop and that you know a sort of fairly anxious situation , and she froze . |
| 12 | There was a lot of transporter , and she was half way along it : too far in either direction to make it to safety . |
| 13 | She was half way up Stanley Street before she recovered and her heart stopped sinking in her breast . |
| 14 | We are some way from the context of the debate , but if the Minister really wants evidence of how appallingly badly the service is being delivered , I shall be extremely glad to send him the 20-page Tower Watch survey of Archway Tower social security office . |
| 15 | Okay , erm okay moving on to semantics , we 're half way through point three . |
| 16 | We , we do find it as a , as a group very difficult to organise ourselves and for us to have some time to sit down together and feed off one another and talk about it so this is quite , that 's quite hopeful , and I think that does show erm , something the same as er , I 'm sure Jack would say the same thing , like here we are , you know , we 've got all the incoming calls , we 've got all the other stuff to do , and what we 're actually doing when we 're trying to make appointments and so on is we , we fit it in , because we 're half way through |
| 17 | Yeah , yeah , we 're half way down it . |
| 18 | Whether we 're any way towards finding a solution towards it that 's appropriate |
| 19 | We were half way on our holiday . |
| 20 | OST students do n't wake up till they are half way through the second year , ’ said Paul Davies with the weary air of a man staring post-graduation penury in the face . |
| 21 | Connie pretends to be more interested in her friends ' motivations and feelings than her own , but ultimately they are another way of understanding herself . |
| 22 | They are both ways of discouraging firms from taking additional people on to their payrolls . |
| 23 | Eleven million erm , but they 're some way down the track , they 're not at the top of the hierarchy |
| 24 | They were some way behind the rest of the school , but he did not seem in any hurry to catch them up . |
| 25 | They were better informed than he 'd imagined , but they were some way from guessing the truth . |
| 26 | The dead giveaway , though , was that they were both way beyond Juvenile Court status and they were both wearing suits . |
| 27 | They were half way down the stairs when Linda came out of her room and called to him . |
| 28 | Returning home , they were half way through a portion of lime pickles before finding a 25mm-long cockroach in the food . |
| 29 | Yeah , it 's practical way of doing it . |
| 30 | Madame always had a little stage set up there at the end , and I remember thinking at the time , well , seven nights in a week and seven different acts , it 's one way of dealing with the situation . |