Example sentences of "have [verb] half [art] " in BNC.
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1 | He has given half the designers in the business their start ; survived two famous resignations on principle ; been in prison and concentration camp ; outlived one wife and divorced another . |
2 | The consortium has underwritten half the purchase price , but has asked the Government to come up with the other half . |
3 | The cost of redundancies in the Agricultural and Food Research Council has absorbed half the planned increase in research grants . |
4 | Some planets like Jupiter has got half a dozen moons . |
5 | Meanwhile back on the ward , Doctor Beri 's bleep goes again … this time it 's a call to casualty … and the weary house physician has to run half a mile from one end of the building to the other … along the new corridor linking the old part of the hospital with the new.By the end of the morning , he 's covered six miles … one day recently he covered eighteen miles : |
6 | Jason Pierce has a rotten throat infection and has been forced to lay out $70 on antibiotics , drummer Jon Mattock has spent half an hour going round the college with a marker pen , adding Spiritualized 's name to the day-glo posters . |
7 | The 1 year experiment has cost half a million pounds — paid for BT , the computor industry and the Government . |
8 | Their achievement is seen as a sign of hope in a country where the seven-year civil war has forced half a million people into exile and a further half million to become refugees in their own land . |
9 | He has lost half a stone since his move from Tottenham , partly , he thinks , because French players do not have the English habit of sinking a few post-match lagers . |
10 | The party has lost half a million members since the fall of the old leaders under Mr Erich Honecker in the middle of October , and recent disclosures of corruption and economic mismanagement . |
11 | The party has lost half a million members since the fall of the old leaders under Mr Erich Honecker in the middle of October , and recent disclosures of corruption and economic mismanagement . |
12 | in its first six months the agency has handled half a million cases , but there 've been hundreds of complaints about the way it operates . |
13 | Imagine gardens and grounds so huge one man has to spend half the year just trimming the grass verges . |
14 | Thus Akhsharumov directs the reader to something that makes him certain he holds a masterpiece in his hands before he has read half a dozen pages : a single pre-natal life , a foetal stirring and growth , no ordinary robust narrative sense of something afoot . |
15 | It is exceptionally ironic still to find children in a culture which has fathered half the popular music in the modern world , condemned to drone away in their music lessons over nineteenth-century hymn tunes , with dancing relegated to a few minutes at the conclusion of the physical education lessons . |
16 | The Industrial Society has suggested half the management positions should be filled by women by the year 2000 . |
17 | Meredith was determined to show him that she could do without arrogant bankers who 'd heard half a story and jumped to the wrong conclusions . |
18 | I 'd had half a tab at prayers in the morning but it had worn off by now . |
19 | If we 'd had half the help from British Government for crumbling schools we 've had from Europe , we 'd have had a lot more done . |
20 | She 'd crept out through her bedroom window , but she 'd left half a dozen coarse blonde hairs behind her , flickering on the damaged flyscreen wire , like evidence . |
21 | Oh , Oh , I took the dog for a walk last tonight , and there 's some skid marks down the end of Crouch Road the there 's the and then they 'd taken half the road out and you can see someone 's done a wheely , and they 've gone in and done like this business and shot off ! |
22 | The seventy five year old bachelor had finally got his girl at the second time of asking years He 'd waited half a century for this kiss with his new bride Rose , and he still could n't believe his luck . |
23 | and I 'd lost half a stone in weight . |
24 | The house was built by a local architect called Cecil , an old man with a raspy white beard , who 'd lost half an arm to a wayward chainsaw . |
25 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
26 | There was a token minority of conservationists and poor Eric Langmuir , having to wear half a dozen recreational hats . |
27 | In front of this woman , under any normal circumstances , she would have dropped half a dozen years , for she knew she did not look her age . |
28 | Her father could not possibly have owned a house like this , nor could he have owned half the things in it . |
29 | His father could n't be home yet because he would have turned half the lights off again . |
30 | The result is that a student may have answered half the paper in a manner worthy of a Law Lord , and yet obtain a third class because he has not answered the other half . |