Example sentences of "[verb] half the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That typewriter used to go half the night . |
| 2 | One morning he woke up to discover the entire ‘ ARCHITECTURE ’ section stacked so high around his desk he had to wait half the day before pupils managed to free him . |
| 3 | But of course he got half the value of Trafford Hall , which was quarter of a million ? |
| 4 | The idea started in our Care Committee — we raise half the money for the conversions , the Council supplies the other half . ’ |
| 5 | A parallel-group study with 24 children given half the dose of evening primrose oil that we used for 4 weeks , demonstrated a significant difference between active and placebo groups , a finding that we can not explain . |
| 6 | I am always happy to work myself up into a great cultural stew , given half the chance . |
| 7 | He has given half the designers in the business their start ; survived two famous resignations on principle ; been in prison and concentration camp ; outlived one wife and divorced another . |
| 8 | They 've fucking given half the game up ! |
| 9 | Broken Scar supplies half the water for Teesdale , Darlington and Teesside homes , with the remainder coming from Lartington Treatment Works . |
| 10 | Having failed to complete the flute music for De Jean , he had only received half the commission fee , a fact he tried to disguise by claiming that life in Mannheim was very expensive . |
| 11 | At meetings of the European Parliament 's Human Rights Committee ( at which even the French Communists stayed silent ) , Newens compared Ceauşescu 's plan to demolish half the villages in Romania and to relocate millions of people into standardized concrete blocks with the effects of redevelopment around Kings Cross on his own constituents . |
| 12 | I think I made half the record with the Firebird and the other half with the Lazer . |
| 13 | Lay the two curtains out flat on top of each other with right sides facing , and bear in mind that one curtain as laid out represents half the window ( fig. 49 ) . |
| 14 | The Japanese satellites currently represents half the world 's astronomy satellites — the other two being IRAS ( see p. 507 ) and the International Ultraviolet Explorer . |
| 15 | ‘ I think it 's time we stopped poisoning half the land and concreting in the rest . ’ |
| 16 | In the 1950s the UK was still second to the USA for its share of world manufacturing exports and produced half the world 's export of motor cars . |
| 17 | Make half the points lie above the line and half below along the full length of the line . |
| 18 | Between 1941 and 1947 , Rank 's companies were to be responsible for financing half the films made in Britain . |
| 19 | The wife , if she so wishes , will be able to claim half the allowance as of right . |
| 20 | . Senior Buckingham Palace aid confirmed last night the Duchess is entitled to claim half the sum now contained in that fund . |
| 21 | He owned half the houses in Page Street as well as his flourishing transport concern . |
| 22 | Sara began to wish she had n't embarked on this explanation of how and why Matthew Preston owned half the house . |
| 23 | ‘ No , no , my boy , you lose half the flavour that way , ’ frowned his father . |
| 24 | This is why you 're only seeing half the Winchess program . |
| 25 | I mean half the time I think I do n't remember anything because er er , people are so busy blooming playing around and |
| 26 | It 's this region that produces half the country 's wealth … exporting tons of fish and timber all over the world . |
| 27 | There has been a feeling that they would compromise with Chelsea to the extent of accepting half the £22.85 million valuation . |
| 28 | The thing is , with this I do n't think half the people listen to you 're meant to know you 're meant to , in these exams you 're meant to have everything you should know and everything else |
| 29 | I do think when they 're caught , they are , to me it seems as if they ought to be made to clear up some graffiti and and realise what they 're doing because , I do n't think half the time , they realise the the upset they cause . |
| 30 | Thus a subadult can only deliver half the goods in any exchange ; to avoid being short-changed , a large snail should avoid a subadult 's advances unless no older snail is on offer . |