Example sentences of "half-way down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fiona and Fergus were making the bed , but doing it in a funny sort of way ; the bottom sheet had been doubled up half-way down the bed . |
| 2 | The New Leicester Longhorn , which Bakewell had taken in hand , was half-way down the size table at 140cm in the bull and 125cm in the cow . |
| 3 | She had brought detective novels and thrillers and cursed her hectic reading speed : only the second day and she was half-way down the pile . |
| 4 | He was half-way down the hatch with Sammy in his arms when he remembered something . |
| 5 | A bald man in a tuxedo was standing in a doorway half-way down the alley . |
| 6 | Half-way down the Alley is a gate , which leads to the moor . |
| 7 | They passed below them , into the narrower part of the field between the two copses , and it was not until Acorn had been sent half-way down the slope to attract their attention that they turned and came up to the ditch . |
| 8 | The girl 's fair hair was scraped back and held with a slide ; she wore a grey shirt , open half-way down the front , and bleached jeans . |
| 9 | He was already half-way down the ladder when he shouted back at me , ‘ Do n't you want to come along , sister ? ’ |
| 10 | I remember a horrifying dream I had during one Wimbledon wherein I was sitting on top of a tall step-ladder half-way down the garden in the umpire 's position — not awarding points to the thrusting vegetation below but conducting them with a baton . |
| 11 | A woman came stooping out of the felt-covered fowl-house , half-way down the garden ( 19 ) . |
| 12 | Continue adding the pieces in the same way until the arms come half-way down the body . |
| 13 | He fired again , and felt the lesser kick which told him the ball had only lodged half-way down the barrel . |
| 14 | Half-way down the boulevard she built a vast caravanserai which , before it was destroyed in 1857 , was regularly described by visitors to Delhi as the most magnificent building outside the fort . |