Example sentences of "down half " in BNC.
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| 1 | He arrived on the 18th tee needing a par to get into a play-off and , with an extraordinary demonstration of the tension involved , jumped up and down half a dozen times as his tee shot headed inexorably for the bunker on the left . |
| 2 | However , I prefer the bass Peter Harvey on Virgin , if only for the simply gorgeous noise he makes , sounding rather like a lyric tenor down half an octave . |
| 3 | And the videotape of Cal and me playing Bottom and Titania in A Midsummer Night 's Dream last year , with us collapsing in giggles when she tripped over a cobweb and brought down half the lights . |
| 4 | The next involved abseilling down half a huge rock before dropping into a pool with a waterfall close by . |
| 5 | His voice was n't its usual fulsome boom , and probably only carried down half a mile of corridor . |
| 6 | Ace , Defries and Johannsen could only watch as , almost in slow motion , Daak thrust out a fist to support his weight — and pushed down half the switches on the control panel . |
| 7 | You 'd put your hundred and twenty five thousand pounds down , you 'd also put down half of the jointly owned property because you could have dealt with that while you were alive and you 'll end up paying large amounts of inheritance tax . |
| 8 | It does n't give you a hangover if you remember to get down half a pint of water before you go to sleep . |
| 9 | Realizing that her tea was going cold , she gulped down half of it . |
| 10 | Then you had a very sharp knife , er and you used to cut down half the what we called the face of the stack , you know , half the width of it . |
| 11 | They 're tying down half the British Army , for God 's sake . |
| 12 | That people will , will deliberately put it down half way through the term ? |
| 13 | The hundred shares index closed down half a point at twenty-eight , twelve point six . |
| 14 | A lorry transporting Rodney the hundred and eighty seven tonne diesel engine broke down half way up Crickley Hill , near Gloucester , causing long tailbacks . |
| 15 | A lorry transporting Rodney the hundred and eighty seven tonne diesel engine broke down half way up Crickley Hill , near Gloucester , causing long tailbacks . |
| 16 | I would reckon I 'll be finished with Norman about ten o'clock it takes me an hour and a half to drive down half past eleven say I 'm in here about twelve o'clock right , cheers |