Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cat was halfway up the tree , and it took Virginia quite a long time to reach it . |
| 2 | He was halfway up the final flight when he heard the voiders ' whistle in the street outside , its piercing din unmistakable . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All the same , by the time he was halfway down the passage , she was coming back , staggering under the weight of a large , square , glass case . |
| 5 | She was only up the town . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But me an' yer muvver always used ter be goin' out when we were younger , even if it was only up the Kings Arms on Saturday nights . |
| 7 | I was only back a couple of days and it started again . |
| 8 | If Balliol was already down a back stair , he could mingle with this crowd of panic-stricken servants and nowise stand out , in his shirt and breeches , since others were in approximately the same state . |
| 9 | It might be , all his life , his worth or lack of it , that this was always down the line . |
| 10 | And you know when after we had withdrawn our labour , then various things arose in that needed sorting out , and the bonus system there , if we thought ours was unfair , their 's was totally out the window . |
| 11 | She somebody has fenced it off , she says I could see them far enough , she said , we always had that bit for our camp and it was further down the glen . |
| 12 | He used to stay a lot with the Broughs at Balnamenoch that was further down the glen . |
| 13 | He called to her when she was half-way up the open stairway to the bedroom she had shared with Francis ; Francis 's bedroom . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He was half-way down the hatch with Sammy in his arms when he remembered something . |
| 17 | The camp was actually down a farm track to one side of the base . |