Example sentences of "[verb] halfway up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roirbak bundled Tammuz into the elevator and they rode halfway up the building in silence until Tammuz said : ‘ I ca n't believe this ! ’ |
| 2 | I grimaced at Ellen , then went topsides where I found the ship being steered by its automatic pilot and Thessy and Jackson Chatterton perched halfway up the mainmast with reels of rigging wire from which Thessy was fashioning a parallel set of starboard shrouds . |
| 3 | His powerful trunk and huge belly filled the chair and the yellow cattleman 's boots were laced halfway up the stout legs . |
| 4 | Finally a continuous length of baler twine is threaded under the legs and over the top , pulled quite tight and tied halfway up the load . |
| 5 | The body of Edward Stone , 27 , an experienced climber who lived locally , was found halfway up the peak . |
| 6 | Dunwoody was surprised when the judge called him the winner on Remittance Man in the opening Bristol Novice Hurdle , believing Peter Scudamore had got back in the final strides on the favourite Regal Ambition after being headed halfway up the run-in . |
| 7 | She paused halfway up the second flight to hear whether anyone was following , but all she heard was the sound of a door below opening and the voices of Joseph , Maurin and Barbara Coleman going into the flat . |
| 8 | Maybe the women in Guido 's life were rather more accustomed to red silk nightdresses with plunging necklines and the sides split halfway up the thigh , but personally she had never possessed anything quite so racy . |
| 9 | Four guylines are attached halfway up the pole sleeve to storm-lash the tent — great for very high winds . |