Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] half a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the far side of the church , old Mr Pugh , who had swallowed about half a kilo of compost , was coughing furiously . |
| 2 | After 30 days of aerobic walking and cutting down on fattening foods I had walked away half a stone . |
| 3 | Its chairman was Sir George ( later Lord ) May , who had spent nearly half a century in the Prudential Assurance Company , broken only by a wartime interlude administering soldiers ' canteens . |
| 4 | Straggling , catching up with one another , keeping more or less together , they had wandered over half a mile down the fields , always following the course of the brook . |
| 5 | If this was one creature , it had stood over half a mile high . |