Example sentences of "[v-ing] half a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When I met Mike , he strolled into the office and apologised for bringing half a farm yard with him . |
| 5 | Anything , Richard thought , would be better than sawing half a man 's chest away . |
| 6 | It was this that had prevented me from resting half a day here or there , from starting late in the morning and from stopping early in the evening . |
| 7 | This was all happening half a century ago , before the invention of the aqualung . |
| 8 | Representing half a mile of coastline , its 72 paddles can produce waves and set up currents and tides for scientists to study . |
| 9 | I saved myself by hurling half a brick into the darkness . |
| 10 | Yet , writing half a century later , Sir John Fortescue recognised that Henry V had been right : ‘ though we have not alwey werre uppon the see , yet it shalbe nescessarie that the kynge [ Edward IV ] have alway some ffloute apon the see , ffor the repressynge off rovers , savynge off owre marchauntes , owre ffishers , and the dwellers uppon owre costes ; and that the kynge kepe alway some grete and myghty vessels , ffor the brekynge off an armye when any shall be made ayen hym apon the see ; ffor thanne it shall be to late to do make such vessailles ’ . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , even with the practice of awarding half a star over the minimum grading the system is not entirely satisfactory as standards and even prices very enormously in each star grade . |
| 12 | He was probably not the Bernard listed in 1522 , for one of the copyholders , occupying half a virgate , was Joan Pace , who is described as the widow of Bernard Turney , while the lease of the manor was renewed without a break until the eighteenth century . |
| 13 | That 's like getting half a bag of sugar a day to live on . |
| 14 | Psychics describe the aura as a rainbow emanation radiating half a metre or more around the body , more or less ovoid in shape . |
| 15 | Two minutes later , Mother was holding half a trout rod . |
| 16 | It was lovely on the hot summer nights listening to the sound of the various instruments being played at West Birk Hatt , drifting half a mile across the valley . |
| 17 | However , the fact is that for approaching half a century British cities have been publicly regulated by a system designed to guide , shape and control the form and appearance of the urban environment . |
| 18 | the labour because erm I ca n't see any point in doing half a job . |
| 19 | Because what 's the point of hitting her , coming through her , travelling half a mile |
| 20 | Germany 's Rolf Waldmann took line honours on his Honda in a thrilling 125cc Grand Prix , finishing half a wheel ahead of Italy 's Alessandro Gramigni , on an Aprilia . |
| 21 | I lingered , on the pretext of finishing half a glass of champagne . |
| 22 | The majority of the vineyards are located to the north and north-west of the village commencing half a kilometre north-west of Ambonnay itself , where the land rises to about 20 metres . |
| 23 | They will wince at the idea of paying for their children 's school books or having their gallstones removed , but think nothing of spending half a year 's income on a car . |
| 24 | That 's the equivalent of a medium-sized man losing half a stone overnight , and it could be fatal for a bird . |
| 25 | From here they can see convoys coming half a mile away . |
| 26 | ‘ The police will have you believe that on the night of 12 September , after consuming half a tin of pilchards , she decided life was not worth living and hacked off her left leg with a non-existent sharp instrument . |
| 27 | We prepared ourselves for the experience by drinking half a bottle of brandy each — I was worried about him until then . |
| 28 | And ho drinking half a bottle of wine . |
| 29 | A RAILWAY clerk sacked for drinking half a shandy at his farewell do celebrated his reprieve yesterday — with the same tipple at his local . |
| 30 | On an average day Mark and his entourage would cover 18 to 20 miles with Tara carrying half a ton of equipment on her back . |