Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] half [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Rick Christie , a golf professional in Tampa , Florida , and a friend of Levi 's , said not too long ago that he should win half a dozen tournaments with his consistent swing . |
| 2 | He should have half the Sum to serve his need ; |
| 3 | You must have half a pint of skimmed milk each day . |
| 4 | ‘ She must stand half an hour longer on that chair , and nobody may speak to her for the rest of the day . ’ |
| 5 | A later law dealing with landless newcomers , specifies that they should receive half the property , and not two-thirds . |
| 6 | Oh you 'll want half a tin wo n't you ? |
| 7 | It 'll light half a million homes by the end of the year . |
| 8 | I might spend half an hour , choosing a drink now you realise ! |
| 9 | But it might take half a minute to combine this range from this relatively large file . |
| 10 | The descent took only a few minutes , but then the man had to make a laborious return journey with the empty sledge , which might take half an hour . |
| 11 | And so you , you , you I had stepped up a bit in , in in rank , I 'm a but erm there was being , on the social side course being next to the Sir Robert Peel , when we went down there , it was quite handy although I 'm not a drinking man , I never have been , I 'll go and socialize and I 'll have half a pint or two halves but I 'd never I 've never been one to go out drinking . |
| 12 | It , it 's also a chain , from what you 're going on about , people regarding the service , I mean everyone 's had a bit , not just the erm , it , it 's the purchase managers more than the er , people who pay our premiums , they are just in time and we stood up to be shot at if we do n't pay the service , or put a big ones maybe , they 'll have half a carton of raw material left for that machine , so they 'll order an item for tomorrow morning , well they 're not to blame for the service , T N T's to blame for the service if we do n't get it erm , |
| 13 | Well I 'll have half a packet with you , but chipsticks if you 've got them . |
| 14 | You 'll take half the skin off my forehead ! ’ |
| 15 | If only they 'd had as much sex as Pulp , this childish dry wank might have half a hint of the lascivious , mobile intercourse it so pathetically promises . |
| 16 | It 'll mean half a dozen new jobs at the brewery 's headquarters in Abingdon . |
| 17 | It 'll mean half a dozen new jobs at the brewery 's headquarters in Abingdon . |
| 18 | As there is no way of knowing how many synonyms exist for any given home address , an unsuccessful search might require half the file to be scanned on average . |
| 19 | The Indian kids would n't matter , but the Yuppie type might get half an hour in the back of a police car checking the pavements and the pub car parks for some sign of his attacker . |
| 20 | If it 's an odd number of repeats , then when the N1 cam is in the centre you 'll get half a repeat at each edge , but if you move the N1 cam half a pattern repeat to the left or right of centre , then again you 'll get a complete pattern repeat at the edge . |
| 21 | We 'll put half a mind on it . |
| 22 | You might fill half a page or a dozen pages before you come to a standstill . |
| 23 | three You 'll find half a paragraph On |
| 24 | Philips Car Systems in Bicester supplies stereo equipment to the truck company and could loose half a million pounds worth of trade if it collapses . |
| 25 | Alice was thinking : Jim 's so big and strong , Philip is n't ; together they 'd need half the time . |
| 26 | Really , he could use half an hour to digest the gobbets of this person . |
| 27 | But the win , achieved with four balls to spare , was clouded by an injury to opening batsman Aamir Sohail , who strained a thigh muscle and could miss half the series . |
| 28 | Me , I 'd take half a dozen ski trips a year , spend a lot of time on the beach , have a lot of fun in pubs and clubs ( and , by the by , give Middlesbrough FC enough money to win the Football League and FA Cup ) . |
| 29 | I talked them into it because at first they were scared , one because they thought they 'd get docked for it — but they said we could have half a day off for it and not get docked — and also because they thought Ros and Maureen were going to be looking down on them , " Oh , you 're only young girls ' , things like that . |
| 30 | Mr Kydd , who on Saturday challenged ‘ there is not a police force in the country can keep these roads open ’ , added ‘ we are now entitled by the court to have meetings and if we wanted to we could have half a million up there . ’ |