Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] half [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Living by himself , he had stopped taking milk : he never got through half a bottle before it went sour , since he drank coffee black and seldom ate cereals . |
| 2 | I got through half the book . |
| 3 | And she got about half a dozen of the strongest boys from standard one to stand guard at the door . |
| 4 | They just sit there mesmerized for half an hour and then |
| 5 | Then I asked for half the fee in advance , and was given a wafer confirming the immediate transfer of the amount to my Fedbank . |
| 6 | They came up and fought for half an hour till they was both flat on their backs , on the waste land there . |
| 7 | ‘ Just a minute , ’ Charles interrupted after half an hour , leaning forward and lowering his voice . |
| 8 | The election was conducted according to an electoral law agreed during the round table talks , which provided for half the 400 Grand National Assembly seats to be elected on a constituency basis and the remainder by proportional representation [ see p. 37380 ] . |
| 9 | We stopped for half an hour in Reading to wait for a connection . ’ |
| 10 | The time ranged from half an hour a day to 13 hours a day , depending on whether devolution was viewed as a separate activity concerned only with finance or whether it was seen as being curriculum driven and/or inseparable from all the activities performed by a head in a working day . |
| 11 | The temperature change would bring a marked reduction in the biodiversity of Tibetan Alpine ecosystems , and hundreds of thousands of hectares of the east China plains would be flooded if sea levels rose by half a metre , a change which would place the country 's major coastal cities at risk . |
| 12 | Commenting on another storming quarter — figures , page seven — Microsoft Corp , whose third quarter earnings of $0.80 a share were above consensus analyst estimates of $0.78 for the period , warned that fourth quarter growth in profits would be less impressive — ‘ One of the things that 's different in this fourth quarter is we do n't have this kicker product , the icing on the cake , ’ said Microsoft investor relations chief Raymond Ferguson ; Microsoft said it shipped a record-breaking 2m MS-DOS 6 retail upgrade copies in the two weeks since it hit the market , but the company said they would be pleased if fourth-quarter revenues rose by half the roughly 20% sequential quarterly rate of recent years , when Microsoft has benefited from upgrade versions of Windows 3.0 , MS-DOS 5 and then Windows 3.1 ; it is still likely to see its first billion dollar quarter this time ; during the fiscal third quarter , sales of applications , which accounted for 61% of total revenues in the period , leaped 63% over year-ago levels to $580m , and Microsoft ended the quarter with $2,000m in cash ; shipment of Windows NT is on schedule for late June following a late May unveiling , the firm said . |
| 13 | The call from Scotland Yard came through half an hour after Wexford got back to the station . |
| 14 | Sultry singer N' Dea added : ‘ We played for half an hour , jumped in our van and got out fast . ’ |
| 15 | They equalised after half an hour and also went close on more than one occasion . |
| 16 | I was perking up under the influence of what seemed like half a ton of protein . |
| 17 | He still went on to do an enormous lob over Coton 's head , and what seemed like half an hour later the ball sneaked itself over the line . |
| 18 | Kathleen and I then took the next train back to Harwich and when we arrived , it seemed like half the port wanted to know what had happened . |
| 19 | The smell was so all-pervasive that nothing consumed within half a mile of it could taste of anything not pertaining to dog . |
| 20 | The victim had 15 stab wounds , including one to his neck which came within half a millimetre of severing a major blood vessel . |
| 21 | The police came within half an hour and the officer was sympathetic although he advised me not to expect the thieves to be caught . |
| 22 | She was in the staff lounge making herself a drink when he came in half an hour later . |
| 23 | Ian Salisbury , who played in half the Test matches , returned figures which will haunt him for some time . |
| 24 | Because at the end of the day , at the end of the negotiations , we were left with the two choices either the our budget reduced by half a million , which is point one six per cent — right — that budget or the Labour budget . |
| 25 | Nothing happened for half an hour so I asked where the nearest Young Women 's Christian Association hostel was . |
| 26 | Birmingham 's Swift boxed for half the fight one-handed after damaging his right fist . |
| 27 | Cranston tossed him a penny and , standing on an overturned barrel , bellowed for half the market to hear how he was Coroner of the city , and would no one help the poor lad have the corpse removed ? |
| 28 | But Fox sealed Bradford 's victory with two more goals , a drop goal and a cheeky try when he ducked beneath half the Widnes pack . |
| 29 | Alongside and beneath the alley , Mucky Beck rushed for half a mile past walled mill-ponds , wasteland and cinder piles all the way from Shearbridge Road to Cheshum Street . |
| 30 | We returned after half an hour , the three men behind frozen and miserable . |