Example sentences of "[verb] half [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I said some time ago that there was a mile to go and we had to go half a mile each , and the Community went more than its half a mile . |
| 2 | but it 's not though , it 's not , it 's her fault for being so bloody stupid and not telling us A , what we 're supposed to be doing and B , the fact that I was not having any lunch to go half an hour , what do you mean ? |
| 3 | ‘ That typewriter used to go half the night . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | and we still have to wait half an hour ! |
| 6 | Now , if everyone had an average-sized lawn which they cut weekly for eight months using half a litre of petrol at each session , they would still burn less than 4 gallons a year . |
| 7 | At certain times of the month and whatever , I could be using half a gram a day and towards the end of the month whatever money I had left went on It . |
| 8 | The second attempt was much shorter and hit off , I thought , the right balance between regretful practicality and yet sufficient affection and desire for her still to want to climb into bed if I got half a chance . |
| 9 | After lunch he took her to the shops in the wide , tree-lined avenues , and though from time to time she was out of his sight she had no doubt whatever that he still thought she would rush off to telegraph news to her magazine if she got half a chance . |
| 10 | So I said I went and lay in the in these bull rushes and I got half a brick , yes , he says , and I saw them coming and he says and I threw it and hit him this er blackleg with this half brick . |
| 11 | Ah well we had , you had we had that , that bloke Americans , so we got half a point . |
| 12 | And if she got half a pig 's head she used to cut the pig 's head in half and used to use the top half , and that was where the ears was , and everything , boil it until all all the meat dropped off and then she used to put in er a big basin , scrumple it up in her fingers , put some of the juice in , and put a seven pound weight on it , and a saucer , and make brawn . |
| 13 | But of course he got half the value of Trafford Hall , which was quarter of a million ? |
| 14 | You got half an hour plus ten minutes relief for your refreshments and that would happen at ten in the morning and you 'd been there since seven . |
| 15 | you know there 's not nobody got half an hour to wait . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm still cold , ’ she whispered half an hour later . |
| 17 | The idea started in our Care Committee — we raise half the money for the conversions , the Council supplies the other half . ’ |
| 18 | G. is pleased with the response at the company — not only do they report as soon as possible when they 've got a pollution , they let him know about the progress they make : ‘ I 've got them so well trained now they 'll be phoning half an hour before they have a discharge . ’ |
| 19 | This , as any British climbers knows , involved quaffing gallons of warm beer the night before , eating half a pig and the produce of a hen house the next morning , then spraying the countryside with this heady mixture while approaching the crag . |
| 20 | And Andy was given half a day 's notice . |
| 21 | Being a lazy lad , much given to the idea of rising late when given half a chance , he had delayed his arrival in the world until 1 January . |
| 22 | Like many people , I am in favour of public transport in principle , but I will use a car , even on a holiday weekend like this , given half a chance . |
| 23 | That 's nothing on how good they could be , given half a chance . |
| 24 | It possesses a large number of small but very sharp teeth and can inflict a painful bite if given half a chance . |
| 25 | If there is no wool available to them , cats with an urge to re-create the pleasures of sucking at the maternal nipple have been known to suck their own fur , sometimes their feet and sometimes the tips of their tails ; or they occasionally develop a fixation on their owner 's hair and make repeated attempts to suck on that , if they are given half a chance . |
| 26 | Many teenagers today would live in their trainers , given half a chance , but try to discourage this . |
| 27 | Many of think he would do it if he was given half a chance . |
| 28 | He would doubtless suffer this blow to his esteem in a First Folio or a 1532 Chaucer , given half a chance , but in lesser books the wound is too serious . |
| 29 | Given half a chance they would ‘ retrobolt ’ ( what curious technical names they give to hearsay these days ) everything we hold dear . |
| 30 | What we would demand given half a chance : Electro-shock treatment for anyone with home-made tattoos . |