Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took me to twenty to stand into a half crouch and reach up for the bolt . |
| 2 | He peered in the half darkness at the metal rack in which two bottles , the remains of an Easter present from Sophia 's mother , sat in lonely dignity for each was a good wine of its kind . |
| 3 | In the first place , by 1986 , teachers and other educational staff had seen the purchasing power of their salaries slip to a half or a third of their 1980 value . |
| 4 | Although the overall number of night visits increased sharply in the first year after the introduction of the contract ( for example , in Berkshire it rose by a half over the previous year p 762 ) , the absolute number of night visits made by the deputising service may have altered much less , without much cost saving . |
| 5 | Sales rose by a half of one percent last month , that was double August 's increase and more than experts had predicted . |
| 6 | Take for example the reversal , or split ess ( Fig. 9.5 ) , consisting of a half roll followed by a half loop . |
| 7 | And I have a very strong extended family as you might expect of a half Italian , mother always cooking pasta and what have you at home . |
| 8 | During the Second World War they were taken down to the dark stone vaults beneath the Half Moon Battery and buried to prevent them falling into enemy hands . |
| 9 | And mango , exotic mango sorbet filled into a half mango skin . |
| 10 | As Huy came closer , he noticed something glinting in the half light , not quite halfway up the door and towards its centre . |
| 11 | As in previous economic crises , capital expenditure was hit hardest , but on a scale not experienced before — cut to a half or to a third of previous levels in some cases . |
| 12 | ( However , they do appear on the half mill — why the difference , CAA ? ) |
| 13 | He sits behind a half screen , perusing the faces of customers as they amble away , their arms full of cans for the road . |
| 14 | I save about a half of it . |
| 15 | ‘ Do I look like a half wit ? ’ he snapped , pulling his hand back hastily . |
| 16 | And then you 'd have fifty hundredths and it 's still look like a half . |
| 17 | Reflected in the half opened eyes of the man who lay dying on the thick rug of his apartment . |
| 18 | Asa banked and went down , the Yak followed , turning in a half circle , and took up station again . |
| 19 | Cornwall has eight sites suitable for powered aircraft shown on the half mill map . |
| 20 | It is offered on a half board basis and the management prides itself on its reputation for the good quality home-cooking . |
| 21 | Given that in the harmonisation process we have already got rid of the half crown and of the threepenny bit , what is the emotional difficulty about changing the pound coin to the ecu ? |
| 22 | If I was you , I 'd walk on a bit till ye gets to the Half Moon — it 's along the Overclyst road , so … ’ |
| 23 | Overnights will always be in comfortable hotels ( all bedrooms with private bathrooms ) staying on a half board basis . |
| 24 | A local builder obliged by knocking down the remains in exchange for the materials he could salvage , and the place had been known as the Half House by local people ever since . |
| 25 | Does no one nowadays keep up the old precaution of when in a strange pub always starting with a half ? — KEN REED , Sutton , Surrey . |
| 26 | Peppard Golf Club was slowly grinding to a half ( blitzed Londoners were housed in the simple wooden clubhouse ) and two of its trophies were sent to Henley , a more durable looking Club . |
| 27 | When this applies , the average seek time will be reduced to a half , two thirds , etc. , of average head movement time , as the information will be available in main storage — so saving a seek — in an equivalent proportion of cases . |
| 28 | Secondly , the proportion of SERPS that can be inherited by a spouse has been reduced to a half rather than the full amount under the original scheme ( Walker , 1986 , p. 193 ) . |
| 29 | If the distance is reduced to the half , the image will become twice as large , if the distance is reduced to a third , the image becomes three times larger and so on . ’ |
| 30 | The gentleman I spoke with was unaware that light aircraft ADF equipment was unable to tune to the half kHz and seemed quite surprised to learn this . |