Example sentences of "halfway across the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rickety building rang like a gong , leapt off its foundations and was dragged halfway across the quarry before it fell apart in a shower of rust and smoke . |
| 2 | Pushing aside the leaves , she saw him stop halfway across the lawn and bend his head to light a cigarette . |
| 3 | Well next door but one are having erm double glazed back window , you know that main lounge window and the the guy 's parked halfway across the drive with the van , left it there all in disarray you can just about get your car up and round and brains that some of these people |
| 4 | How do you share a date when your paramour is unavoidably detained on business in another town halfway across the country ? |
| 5 | ‘ Am I to be dragged halfway across the country in a cart ? ’ |
| 6 | It lay on Roman Watling Street , and had two old coaching-inns , each with enormous , elaborate wrought-iron signs which stretched halfway across the road . |
| 7 | They had spilled halfway across the road , and although most of them shuffled quickly aside when they saw the car approaching , four boys gathered themselves quickly into a group and remained standing defiantly in its path . |
| 8 | " Well , " he said , " we think we lose a lot of aircraft , because we have been monitoring quite a — few they just disappear from the radar screen 50 miles off the coast , sometimes more , sometimes halfway across the sea if they are making a dash far Flamborough Head . |
| 9 | He also has a smart answer to the real big question about abduction — why exactly do these super-intelligent beings travel halfway across the universe in hi-tech spaceships to stick blunt instruments up people 's bottoms ? |
| 10 | But why exactly do these super-intelligent beings travel halfway across the universe in hi-tech spaceships to stick blunt instruments up people 's bottoms ? |
| 11 | Without waiting for Chuck he strode off in the direction taken by the herd , and halfway across the grassland he let out a roar and dropped to his knees . |
| 12 | It 's irritatingly easy to crash at first , as the pushscroll is only activated when you 're more than halfway across the screen , giving you little time to see and avoid hazards . |
| 13 | Halfway across the site , the earth is scorched , and the remnants of dwellings bear witness to a horrendous fire . |
| 14 | ‘ So it seems , ’ said Cadfael , and eyed the bushes that encroached halfway across the path . |
| 15 | Lee-Wright does n't shrink from naming names and one recognizes many familiar superstore products that originate from some fume-choked hovel halfway across the world . |
| 16 | She heard Tim give a shout and saw him stretch out an arm and point towards her , but she-had no fear of capture ; she was over halfway across the marsh . |
| 17 | Halfway across the dock , however , there was a metallic scraping , and the sheet metal forming the outer skin of the oddly shaped bulges in the hull at deck level fell away . |
| 18 | But what sort of a man was it who could be kidnapped , bundled into a cart and made to lie on the floor under a rug with a gun at his head while being driven halfway across the city on a cold November afternoon — and then just calmly and quietly fall fast asleep ? |
| 19 | Next , mark the finished length from hemline , taken at a quarter of the way across the window ( FH ) , at a position halfway across the fabric . |
| 20 | Halfway across the Mediterranean , when the stewardess seemed oddly unresponsive to his overtures , he idly opened the file . |
| 21 | She halted halfway across the carpet , and was aware of his sharp glance going over her bespectacled face and shapeless suit . |
| 22 | halfway across the classroom , stretched |