Example sentences of "halfway down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Later I found out that a standby wife had got halfway down the aisle before turning back , remorseful at abandoning her husband , leaving one empty seat — my seat , I brooded , as I waited for the next flight . ) |
| 2 | Knowing that the barracuda would dart forward the moment he fired , Trent aimed halfway down the jaw . |
| 3 | He stopped halfway down the passage , whirling about to meet her . |
| 4 | All the same , by the time he was halfway down the passage , she was coming back , staggering under the weight of a large , square , glass case . |
| 5 | They were now halfway down the passage . |
| 6 | Beau finished halfway down the field at the end of Day 2 . |
| 7 | The aircraft took-off at 1537 hours piloted from the left hand seat ; on becoming airborne , at a position a little over halfway down the runway , the crew saw a flock of birds ahead flying just above the ground . |
| 8 | The state of the river and a temperature barely above freezing means it is going to be hard today but I will still feed about a dozen maggots when I cast in , and them the same again when the float is halfway down the swim . |
| 9 | The last horse , Bean 's own , stood halfway down the ramp , surveying his reception committee with benign , sleepy eyes . |
| 10 | Halfway down the valley , climb up to your left to the top of Stake Pass ( 3 miles ) . |
| 11 | Riven took a place halfway down the hall from the high seats where the lords clustered and the Lady Jinneth adorned her husband 's elbow . |
| 12 | He was already halfway down the hall . |
| 13 | By now it was dark , with just two small desk lamps throwing clear-cut areas of light : one at a typist 's table halfway down the room where Maxim had finally met up with a pint of cold lager , one at the desk where Dann was listening on the telephone and sipping a small glass of neat gin . |
| 14 | Feet slithered in the mud halfway down the bank . |
| 15 | Wolves had gone into the match halfway down the table and seven points adrift from the top six . |
| 16 | I sat halfway down the table with my back to the sink , arranging fish bones in meaningful patterns on the plate while Father and Mrs Clamp exchanged very formal , almost ritualised pleasantries . |
| 17 | As Miranda was halfway down the dark and narrow stairwell , she realised who it was who had so disarmed Madame that she had not scolded Marie-Angèle ( for not being downstairs to hand , to run the message up to Mlle Everard ) , or waited to reproach Miranda herself for allowing visitors to call without appointments and cause all this trouble to her hostess in the Hotel Davenant . |
| 18 | Important parts of the overall design are the archway , halfway down the garden , and the arbour at the bottom . |
| 19 | Halfway down the pool , and quite unexpectedly , a good fish rose and slashed at my cast , taking the tail fly , a size 14 Peter Ross . |
| 20 | He stood up and walked down to the deep end as he spoke , then he dived in , surfacing at least halfway down the pool , then covering several more lengths in a leisurely crawl . |
| 21 | Halfway down the length of the tunnel a patten caught an advancing man under the chin so that his alarmed cry was cut off short as he was lifted and carried for a distance of several paces before he fell away . |
| 22 | There were three gunners , both front and rear of the plane and one in a bubble canopy halfway down the fuselage . |
| 23 | He slid down from the pill-box and sat in the high grass , halfway down the canal bank . |