Example sentences of "[adj] way [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The radio keeps telling you that the eye of the hurricane is here or there , getting near anyway , and you try to figure whether to leave the windows open a crack or tape them and you remember that the highest point of Key West is only 16 feet above sea level , and how the great hurricane of 1936 caught a train half way up the Keys filled with refugees from Key West and drowned them all , and you can get nervous . |
| 2 | But Nenna , somewhat to the curate 's surprise , for he seldom felt himself to be a truly welcome guest , was already half way up the companion . |
| 3 | It had come half way up the bunk , and nearly as far as Willis 's blankets . |
| 4 | The border to Finland is half way up the 30-mile ( 48km ) long canal and the canal office is at the eighth of the nine locks . |
| 5 | We take our seats half way up the stalls . |
| 6 | Chairman Judith Billingham said yesterday : ‘ Wales is one of the highest drinking regions of the UK and about half way up the league table for Europe . |
| 7 | This time the hoof caught me half way up the shin bone , She had n't been able to get so much height into it but it was just as painful . |
| 8 | In fact , Capital Radio is only half way up the tower . |
| 9 | Mrs Grogan had seen a man half way up the sycamore tree in the Connons ' front garden . |
| 10 | As I said , I was almost half way up the front before I realised that between knitting the back and starting the front I 'd had a teaching session . |
| 11 | In one bound he had left his seat and was half way up the ladder ; I was close behind . |
| 12 | Yet she was pleased , nevertheless , to see him sitting half way down the church , resplendent in silver grey and the very fanciest of brocade waistcoats imaginable . |
| 13 | An imaginary line half way down the foot is compatible to the body 's waist line ; so the organs in the upper part of the body have reflex areas in the upper foot and the lower organs are linked to the lower foot . |
| 14 | I was half way down the alley between the walls with the hope bright before me that my patient would be improved when from nowhere an appalling explosion of sound blasted into my right ear . |
| 15 | Half way down the passageway , the van stopped moving . |
| 16 | To look for small changes in the transition frequency , it is sufficient to take measurements at two points , one each side of the central peak , roughly half way down the peak . |
| 17 | Half way down the companion he stopped , and it was as though the whole length of the hold moved towards him in a body . |
| 18 | ‘ Just another five minutes , ’ Nick begged , not taking his eyes from the ball as he whacked it half way down the table . |
| 19 | As it was I got Doreen because Duncan was half way down the garden path ( all three feet of it ) on his way to the pub . |
| 20 | It was hardly a stately progress , but as she made her triumphant way back the seas of people around her grew and grew , so that she was accompanied back into the parade ring by a whooping mob , pushing and shoving to get to her , all carried along on a tide of exultation . |