Example sentences of "through the [num ord] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man short , the Fourth Division side held their more illustrious opponents at bay with no great difficulty until midway through the first half , and the crowds had fallen into an apprehensive silence when Drinkell revived their spirits . |
| 2 | Leeds broke out of their defensive cocoon midway through the first half for Jones to win the match by meeting Mike Whitlow 's centre from the left at the near post and flicking it across Phil Parkes into the opposite corner . |
| 3 | Holland lost Ellerman , victim of a brusque tackle from Mozer , midway through the first half and , although his replacement was the experienced Winter , the change did nothing to help the Dutch search for a blend . |
| 4 | Every qualified projection of climate change and population growth indicates a crisis which will grow in seriousness through the first half of the twenty-first century . |
| 5 | This discontent , which had been instrumental in provoking the challenge to her leadership by Sir Anthony Meyer in 1989 , continued to plague the Prime Minister through the first half of 1990 and flared up again in the weeks prior to the leadership contest . |
| 6 | Manor took the lead midway through the first half with a well-taken goal by Sean Annells . |
| 7 | Ted captained the Palace through the first half of our 3rd Division championship season of 1920–21 before injury prevented him playing , and then in our opening games in Division Two . |
| 8 | Guillimont equalised midway through the first half from the penalty spot , while Manor were unlucky not to regain the lead when the referee blew for half-time just before a Lee Clutterbuck shot crossed the line . |
| 9 | ‘ Dustin was so far ahead of me through the first half of the picture , it was n't even funny , ’ Peckinpah confessed . |
| 10 | Webster 's try midway through the first half was well-taken coming on the end of an astounding burst by prop Huw Williams-Jones . |
| 11 | Freed , furthermore , after 1870 from the embarrassment of the papal states and continually reinforced by its growing missionary societies , the Church was manifestly expanding in number and influence all through the first half of the twentieth century , when other large Churches were only too clearly declining rather than advancing . |
| 12 | But midway through the first half , with England for once turning the screw , Rory Underwood was denied a try by Denis McBride 's crunching tackle that wrenched the ball from the flying winger 's grasp . |
| 13 | Midway through the first half here at Filbert Street still Leicester City nil Nottingham Forest nil but a good game . |
| 14 | Duncan Shearer shot them into the lead midway through the first half with his 21st goal of the season . |
| 15 | You know that old old saying about football being a funny game , well this tie was even funnier than that , Joey Beauchamp shot United into the lead midway through the first half . |
| 16 | Skipper , Derek Hall cracked them into the lead midway through the first half . |
| 17 | On tries the cherry and whites won by three to one … they looked sharp enough moving into attack … and looked good enough for victory … they even took the lead midway through the first half … with a well worked and well taken try by Tim Smith … |
| 18 | And sure enough , mid-way through the first half , Joey gave United the lead . |
| 19 | That was midway through the first half and Town should have gone in two up . |
| 20 | United took the lead midway through the first half . |
| 21 | They were in control from start to finish , with Don Caskie scoring the first try midway through the first half . |
| 22 | It started well enough , with Dave Mitchell giving Town the lead midway through the first half . |
| 23 | Max Nicholson started and finished the move which brought the only goal of the game midway through the first half … |
| 24 | Neil Ruddock 's goal midway through the first half lit the fuse … and when Steve McManaman exploded a right footer just before half-time every Town fan must have been fearing the worst … |
| 25 | he was back with a second midway through the first half … and that was that … 2-0 … |
| 26 | Oxford did all the attacking but Luton did all the scoring … it only took one goal to win it and that came from Ceri Hughes midway through the first half … |
| 27 | The alarm bells started to ring when flanker , Alan Brown dived over to score the opening try midway through the first half . |
| 28 | Gary Blissett gave Brentford the lead midway through the first half , which was a bad one for the Town defence . |
| 29 | Gloucester do n't believe in doing things the easy way … funny thing is they play better when they 're up against it … so this game was ideal … they were losing and down to fourteen men when Pete Jones was sent off mid way through the first half for stamping … |
| 30 | Ironically it was Distillery who settled into the game and looked dangerous in a brief spell midway through the first half but in the space of two minutes Stephen Baxter 's shot was touched away by Kevin McKeown and midfielder Philip Mitchell 's header landed on the roof of the net . |