Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] half [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Debate on the Church went on through half the time available for discussion in the entire session , and revisions still had to be brought back for approval . |
| 2 | After entering the wood keep straight on for half a mile . |
| 3 | Although one character does get to chunter on for half a page about how the real point of fund-raising is its feelgood side effects ( get-away ! ) , there is really no satirical content here at all : the real point of the book is that it features loads and loads of cartoon rumpy-pumpy : randy housewives and naughty underwear , haystacks and giant inflatable condoms , improbable sexual positions and unlikely transvestites . |
| 4 | ‘ You just keep on for half a mile or so and 't is up on your left . |
| 5 | Cameron raked on for half an hour , making loose heaps up the middle of the field . |
| 6 | The thing went on for half an hour at least . |
| 7 | If the Government want to fetch every one of those issues to the Floor of the House , I am quite prepared to do exactly the same , and every day we shall have points of order that go on for half an hour — |
| 8 | The conversation carried on for half an hour and then they parted company as she went to work and he went off to his job . |
| 9 | Olwen has hers on for half an hour of a morning , Joe puts it on at half eight and dead on nine o'clock that immersion 's turned off . |
| 10 | But you 've got ta have it on for half an hour have n't we Scott ? |
| 11 | The Golden Girls on for half an hour . |
| 12 | Gentlemen , it occurs to us that you 're going , we 're going to be waffling on for half an hour plus , in a sense . |
| 13 | It was a quiet time and I would sit these fellows down for half an hour and take them through what they were doing . |
| 14 | Sit down for half an hour and anybody can do it . |
| 15 | Sit down for half an hour and anybody can do it . |
| 16 | I 'm not , I 've been sitting down for half an hour . |
| 17 | Why do n't you go and lie down for half an hour ? |
| 18 | I know what I need , to put my head down for half an hour this afternoon I wo n't be fit for nothing the night . |
| 19 | ‘ There are least three shops in Norwich I really like , and I tend to ring them in advance and say ‘ I 'm coming in for half an hour . |
| 20 | There was a mini-rebellion about that just after the Police Strike and then they allowed policemen to go in for half an hour 's and eat breakfast . |
| 21 | The Brighton Constabulary , whose marksmen had taken up positions from which they could command the Grand Hotel , was stood down after half an hour . |
| 22 | Mind you , we 'll go buy some and your Corrinne 'll be down with half a bag or summat daft like that ! |
| 23 | Lymington DSFC member Kevin Barton took a 2 lb 14 oz plaice along with half a dozen flounder in one session . |
| 24 | Trent dived overboard along with half a dozen crew and Maria Magdalena surged ahead . |
| 25 | The front and one side remained , the rear and other side had been swept away along with half the roof . |
| 26 | I fetch them all in , stick them on clothes horse , they 're all round fire while I 'm on lollipop and then nip to shop and when I come in within half an hour they were bone dry . |
| 27 | They got Midnight down in half an hour , after Jess had fetched water for him to drink , and then had cleaned him as best she could . |
| 28 | He 'd be down in half an hour though . |
| 29 | He should be along in half an hour or so . " |
| 30 | " I 've asked Sir Geoffrey Gillington to come along in half an hour . " |