Example sentences of "halfway down [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I REMEMBER once seeing a small girl remove a tin of soup from halfway down a display stack in a supermarket . |
| 2 | They should be all over the place — especially where least expected — halfway down a leg , on a collar , cuff or elbow for instance . |
| 3 | Russell Telford , 29 , stayed halfway down a pit shaft for nine hours after threatening a lift operator at Markham Main colliery , South Yorkshire . |
| 4 | She did n't go so far as to give me her telephone number , but I prudently copied it from the instrument at a point during the interview when she was distracted : when one of Brenda 's children had somehow slipped into the room to find a drum stacked halfway down a pile of similar toys . |
| 5 | ‘ How did the mice come to be halfway down a cliff in the first place ? ’ he had asked her . |
| 6 | Her thoughts taking flight , Luce found they had stopped halfway down a bare stone corridor . |
| 7 | Important parts of the overall design are the archway , halfway down the garden , and the arbour at the bottom . |
| 8 | 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 . ) |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He slid down from the pill-box and sat in the high grass , halfway down the canal bank . |
| 11 | Wolves had gone into the match halfway down the table and seven points adrift from the top six . |
| 12 | Knowing that the barracuda would dart forward the moment he fired , Trent aimed halfway down the jaw . |
| 13 | Feet slithered in the mud halfway down the bank . |
| 14 | She and Ethel were halfway down the next flight of stairs when they were suddenly joined by Bryce . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The last horse , Bean 's own , stood halfway down the ramp , surveying his reception committee with benign , sleepy eyes . |
| 17 | She remembered halfway down the rickety ladder stairs , but for would have been a final indignity . |
| 18 | Halfway down the valley , climb up to your left to the top of Stake Pass ( 3 miles ) . |
| 19 | Grip lashes with the curlers as close to the roots as possible and hold for five seconds , then repeat halfway down the lashes . |
| 20 | Halfway down the Canyon , you come to 400-million-year-old limestones . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Johnson 's account pauses at the Fall of Fiers , today called Foyers , a little more than halfway down the south-eastern length of the Loch . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The blinds pulled , by her domestic decree , halfway down the windows discouraged all hope . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Halfway down the Haymarket , now quite a distance from Piccadilly Circus , Neil paused , breathless , and afterwards wondered what kind god had arranged for him to be where he was . |
| 29 | He was already halfway down the hall . |
| 30 | He stopped halfway down the passage , whirling about to meet her . |