Example sentences of "[v-ing] the other half " in BNC.

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1 Master Smith , the father of the beneficiaries , may own one-half of the family company , with the trust acquiring the other half .
2 seeking the other half they 'll never find .
3 These ideas were occupying the other half of my brain .
4 Eclipse , put to stud in 1770 , was now owned by Denis O'Kelly of Canons , Edgware , who had bought a half-share for 650 guineas after Eclipse 's second race at Ascot in 1769 , buying the other half for 1100 guineas .
5 The men lowered core moulds made of orange sand into the boxes , which were turned over and joined to boxes containing the other half of the moulds ( the bottom half was the drag , the top the cope — the first bit of jargon she had managed to master ) and moved forward on the track to the casting area .
6 And I was able to do this , so that half the fee was being paid for a three-piece suite going , some boxes , to another address , and then this bedroom suite was taking the other half of the charge back .
7 Ludens ran into the kitchen , finding the other half of last night 's mangled loaf .
8 An experiment could be conducted by taking a largish group of electors , splitting them into two at random , telling half that the polls indicated one candidate would win and telling the other half that they showed a rival would win .
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