Example sentences of "[pron] for half a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he said I was too innocent to realise how hard it was for him just to see me for half an hour and a kiss and cuddle . ’ |
| 2 | He had known most of them for half a lifetime . |
| 3 | I talked to them for half an hour on maximum range and fuel economy . |
| 4 | Sister Monica stayed with them for half an hour . |
| 5 | " To a pint of cream put a pound of double-refined sugar , the juice of seven lemons , grate the rinds of two lemons into a pint of white wine , add half a pint of sack , then put them all into a deep pot , and whisk them for half an hour , put it into glasses the night before you want it : it is better for standing two or three days , but it will keep a week if required . " |
| 6 | It was like , get on to those bloody phone people , he said , I was on the phone to them for half an hour , yesterday , he said have n't turned up , he said , and I organized m I work around and everything . |
| 7 | Secondly , there were the regions of the old industrial periphery — the North , Wales and Scotland — which for half a century had suffered higher than national rates of unemployment . |
| 8 | His system became the standard one for half a century . |
| 9 | I 'll buy one for half a million pounds ! |
| 10 | I took another deep breath — I only wanted to see him for half an hour — and said what I could . |
| 11 | Others could not get to him for half an hour . |
| 12 | I only saw him for half an hour . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've been trying to wake him for half an hour , ’ said Fritz . |
| 14 | She had been watching him for half an hour staring out at the view , motionless . |
| 15 | He wondered how much it would cost to buy her for half an hour . |
| 16 | But actually I had her for half an hour to the commands and everything . |
| 17 | Two men then ransacked her house while another stood guard over her for half an hour . |
| 18 | We ran it for half a century and left behind a road network , ginger beer and a cricket green in the capital , Corfu Town . |
| 19 | And one , if you ever wanted to do a bit of homework , to actually really get into the mood for something like this , you want to take a , a single piece , a single little newsy thing , and just practise , try and write it for half a dozen different outlets . |
| 20 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 21 | A neighbour who heard the bell , a sound she had never heard in all her fifteen years in the street , puzzled over it for half an hour and then went across the road to the school . |
| 22 | sort of read through a bit about it and then when you 've read it , put the book away and leave it for half an hour or an hour or something and then try and draw a rough outline of some of the main points . |
| 23 | In March we marked John 's seven hundredth day by erecting a cell-like cage in Covent Garden and persuading as many famous people as possible to come and stand in it for half an hour while the press filmed them . |
| 24 | The children play with it for half an hour , then run outside with their new toboggan instead . |
| 25 | Alright well I think well I think actually well I know we 've droned on about it for half an hour but I think it 's worth a discussion to be quite honest , do n't you ? |
| 26 | they leave it for half an hour . |
| 27 | Accordingly when a pare of men went underground formerly , they made it a rule , to sleep out a candle , before they set about their work ; that is if their place of work was dry , they would lay themselves down and sleep , as long as a whole candle would continue burning ; and then rise up and work for two or three hours pretty briskly ; after that have a touch pipe , that is rest themselves for half an hour to smoke a pipe of tobacco , and so play and sleep away half their working time : but mining being more expensive than it formerly was , those idle customs are superseded by more labour and industry . |
| 28 | Begin by watching yourself for half an hour each day as if you are a stranger . |
| 29 | Er and Jane has sent us in some proposals , which erm she 's s since modified and is now working on and she 's calling in to see us for half a day in the near future |
| 30 | That we sit down with the figures and it might be another thing like we did with the bridal magazines , that we go to somebody and say , look we would like to do this to increase our turnover , will you fund us for half a year ? |