Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've received the second half of BB 's script and have sent a copy on to her in Bath . |
| 2 | There is a good chance that you stand too upright or your legs become rigid towards impact ( main photo ) causing the blade of the iron to hit the top half of the ball ( lower illustration ) . |
| 3 | When we 'd finished that night Dad gave us tuppence to go the first half at the Queen 's Hall . |
| 4 | Fold down one wire half to lie against the stem , wind the other half around stem and wire . |
| 5 | We survived the Thirties and the war , we sold successfully up to 1987 ( a flourish of porcelain animals and birds sold out 90 per cent before the opening party , immediately after Black Monday in the City ) ; even in 1991 we had secured a collection which made the first half of the year look profitable . |
| 6 | Paint the edge of just one half of the shape with a little melted chocolate and bring the two halves together . |
| 7 | In retrospect , this may have been a deliberate gimmick as she so embarrassingly outclassed the first half 's performances by The Bruvvers , Chris Montez , Len Barry and Johnny Tillotson . |
| 8 | It belonged to an extremely important erm civic family , Thomas and John Smith , who are the two important ones during the civil war , Thomas was mayor just before the War , John Smith was a member of parliament in the Long Parliament , and erm there 's a slightly complicated story to the house , Thomas moved out of it just before the war and built another one way up the street , but John stayed there , and another important landowner in Marston , Umpton Croak , owned the other half of it . |
| 9 | The idea started in our Care Committee — we raise half the money for the conversions , the Council supplies the other half . ’ |
| 10 | How remarkable that it does n't seem to have occurred to the medical profession that earlier wrinkles would be a motivation without parallel in encouraging the female half of the population ( at least ) to abandon the nasty habit . |
| 11 | In this way nothing visible in the archaeological record constitutes the other half of the exchange ; such consumables as animals and crops fall into the same category . |
| 12 | Huge crowds flock from East and West to see the second half of the artist 's career |
| 13 | The Byzantines struggled to reassert their authority and succeeded in subduing the eastern half of Simeon 's former realm , but the western half passed to the control of a Macedonian empire under Samuilo ( Samuel ) ( 976–1014 ) . |
| 14 | The second-half power cut hardly mattered because Oldham , embarrassingly inept as three goals punctuated the first half , were not much better when they were allowed to play . |
| 15 | No I wo n't make the other half , I 've done enough this morning , washing and ironing |
| 16 | Intergraph Inc will preview Microstation , its flagship CAD/CAM software , running under Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT — and will also show its new plug-in-and-go system , the PC 466 , a 66MHz Intel Corp 80486 box , which comes with 32Mb RAM , 426Mb disk , TCP/IP and graphics accelerator ; out now , it comes with a 17″ or 19″ colour monitor ; Microstation for NT will ship the second half of the year . |
| 17 | Microstation for NT will ship the second half of the year , it says . |
| 18 | As such , the best cross section of Charlie Parker here is ‘ The Charlie Parker Story ’ , all of whose takes are from the 26/11/45 session , and for which I award the extra half star . |
| 19 | On LIFFE the 50% cross allows the broker/dealer to pre-match half the order , provided he has not taken one side of the cross himself , and he has filled the other half of the order in the pit . |
| 20 | do you want the other half ? |
| 21 | Jake , do you want the other half ? |
| 22 | A 300-yard tunnel is being drilled through the mountainside to connect the two halves of the severed road again . |
| 23 | Unlike the contortions in books by Jane Fonda and others , this one concentrates on shaping the top half of the body . |
| 24 | there you go I 've made half the effort you make the other half |
| 25 | But I 'll make , I 've got to make the other half of it , so when I make the other half of it he can probably have , er have a couple of jam ones |
| 26 | you mean the first half of the table ? |
| 27 | ‘ But he 'll never know the Irish half of him . |
| 28 | A café curtain is an ideal way of giving privacy if you are overlooked , or for blocking out an unwanted view , as this type of curtain covers the lower half of the window permanently , leaving the top half uncovered . |
| 29 | Steadily , quietly , till we stumble on their existence with shocked surprise , pit after pit has been sunk and worked in the beautiful stretch of country which covers the eastern half of the county of Nottingham . |
| 30 | You may choose to use initials for something which is mentioned frequently or simply to write the first half of the word . |