Example sentences of "a [noun] half [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | P&O CONTAINERS have shipped a yacht half way around the world so that she can take part in a round-the=world race ! |
| 2 | So she sitting one night , er , a week past Monday watching her television and she had the window open a li little bit for er air , and the next thing there 's a boy half way through the window ! |
| 3 | Well , well there was a woman half way through delivery so we ca n't leave ! |
| 4 | No it means someone 's stopped a program , stopped a printout half way through and it does n't clear the page in |
| 5 | The radio keeps telling you that the eye of the hurricane is here or there , getting near anyway , and you try to figure whether to leave the windows open a crack or tape them and you remember that the highest point of Key West is only 16 feet above sea level , and how the great hurricane of 1936 caught a train half way up the Keys filled with refugees from Key West and drowned them all , and you can get nervous . |
| 6 | Mrs Grogan had seen a man half way up the sycamore tree in the Connons ' front garden . |
| 7 | That 's right , they 've probably had a row half way there or something , and it just carries on , you know . |
| 8 | Letters from school are often written in a style half way between a leader in the Sunday Telegraph and a Government Statutory Order on the National Curriculum . |
| 9 | William was next and jumped feet first , so he does a flip half way down ; and Matthew looking distinctly queasy on the platform but not wanting to back out after the others had already done it ! |
| 10 | Her first interview for the new series , which started on Easter Monday , was a scoop half hour interview with Prime Minister John Major at No 10 Downing Street . |