Example sentences of "have [verb] half a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some planets like Jupiter has got half a dozen moons . |
| 2 | The 1 year experiment has cost half a million pounds — paid for BT , the computor industry and the Government . |
| 3 | The party has lost half a million members since the fall of the old leaders under Mr Erich Honecker in the middle of October , and recent disclosures of corruption and economic mismanagement . |
| 4 | The party has lost half a million members since the fall of the old leaders under Mr Erich Honecker in the middle of October , and recent disclosures of corruption and economic mismanagement . |
| 5 | in its first six months the agency has handled half a million cases , but there 've been hundreds of complaints about the way it operates . |
| 6 | Thus Akhsharumov directs the reader to something that makes him certain he holds a masterpiece in his hands before he has read half a dozen pages : a single pre-natal life , a foetal stirring and growth , no ordinary robust narrative sense of something afoot . |
| 7 | In front of this woman , under any normal circumstances , she would have dropped half a dozen years , for she knew she did not look her age . |
| 8 | Outgoing Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir was reported on June 27 to have said in an interview with the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv : " I would have carried on autonomy talks for 10 years and meanwhile we would have reached half a million souls in Judea and Samaria [ the West Bank ] … |
| 9 | RCA in America claim to have spent half a million dollars promoting my last album but it was obviously money spent in stupid ways . |
| 10 | They only had to miss half a dozen meals and they started to complain . |
| 11 | I had to pay some money , I just forget now , very little but er as I 've said half a dozen times now , I always wanted to do what was right , you know , and I aim to do that . |
| 12 | well you 've had half a dozen oranges , I should n't have any more , you 'll go to the toilet all the night |
| 13 | Tynagh Mines ' manager , David Fitzgerald , denied all the allegations and said that the company had spent half a million pounds on safety work and intended spending a further £200,000 . |
| 14 | Central defenders have done a good job today for Leicester of course I 've put the curse on him saying that he knocks it straight out of play but er Gary Mills who 's missed half a dozen games through injury is going to come on now and he 's going to take the place of Neil Lewis . |
| 15 | I say he 's had half a dozen kids to each girl he 's been |
| 16 | Local companies have contributed half a million pounds , but the driving force behind the festival is Thamesdown Borough Council . |
| 17 | If your energy or health bar reaches zero it 's game over , but a knackered weapon soon reappears — you just have to take half a dozen blows while retrieving it ! |