Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] half a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | at half past three or you can say if you 'd like to , if you 'd like to wait for half an hour , we 'll get a giro cheque to , issued to you or if you 'd rather you can come back at half past three and collect it . |
| 2 | Living by himself , he had stopped taking milk : he never got through half a bottle before it went sour , since he drank coffee black and seldom ate cereals . |
| 3 | But at the time they thought that was all they could get , and they decided to go for half a loaf rather than the whole . |
| 4 | A HANDMADE Lonsdale skipping rope is standard issue for boxers and will dramatically improve fitness and stamina — skipping for ten minutes is equivalent to jogging for half an hour . |
| 5 | They just sit there mesmerized for half an hour and then |
| 6 | In the middle of the night he rose and , after eating about half a jar of honey , felt a lot better . |
| 7 | As there is a great deal of pressure on our subsequent debate , I shall allow questions on the statement to continue for half an hour , until 4.20 pm , but we must then move on . |
| 8 | On April 6 Brightness was lasooed and after struggling for half an hour was ignominiously hauled from the water . |
| 9 | They came up and fought for half an hour till they was both flat on their backs , on the waste land there . |
| 10 | There was such disruption at the entrance to Olympia that the start of the meeting had to be delayed for half an hour . |
| 11 | Working with a series of transparent resin models in polarized light , Marsh was able to show that a step was just as bad a stress concentrator as the equivalent crack , in fact it might be regarded as half a crack . |
| 12 | ‘ Just a minute , ’ Charles interrupted after half an hour , leaning forward and lowering his voice . |
| 13 | We stopped for half an hour in Reading to wait for a connection . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Could it possibly wait for half an hour , sir ? |
| 15 | When you look at the moon half of it will be in light half of it will be in dark you will see a moon which looks like half a moon . |
| 16 | Once over the Border , in the village of Gretna Green , a marriage could be legalised within half an hour — as George and Catherine would have done by now . |
| 17 | The time ranged from half an hour a day to 13 hours a day , depending on whether devolution was viewed as a separate activity concerned only with finance or whether it was seen as being curriculum driven and/or inseparable from all the activities performed by a head in a working day . |
| 18 | I had come in half an hour early in anticipation of another week of battling short-handed against the tide . |
| 19 | ‘ Say in half an hour ? ’ |
| 20 | Eventually we said , ‘ the people are already queuing outside the hall , the concert starts in half an hour . |
| 21 | He then used skills honed in half a lifetime as a successful actor to feign shock and sorrow , said Mr Calvert-Smith . |
| 22 | The temperature change would bring a marked reduction in the biodiversity of Tibetan Alpine ecosystems , and hundreds of thousands of hectares of the east China plains would be flooded if sea levels rose by half a metre , a change which would place the country 's major coastal cities at risk . |
| 23 | Regular topping up , for example , whenever the water level has dropped by half an inch , will make this task considerably easier . |
| 24 | At the base of the chamber is a half channel , often consisting of half a piece of drain pipe with half channels coming in from branch drains . |
| 25 | King : Sweet Emma , you remember far too well The jeers and cat-calls mingled with the praise When you did sing and dance for half an hour In your own TV show . |
| 26 | The call from Scotland Yard came through half an hour after Wexford got back to the station . |
| 27 | To flap for half an hour and turn to a crust |
| 28 | Staff were split into quality teams , meeting for half an hour each week , with team leaders meeting weekly , also for half an hour , to discuss suggestions raised by staff . |
| 29 | The effect of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act and the Economic Recovery Tax Act was to move the United States in new directions in economic policy ; fundamental change of a sort that had not been seen for half a century . |
| 30 | The career of the demagogue John Wilkes aroused political passions fiercer than any seen for half a century , passions which were often rooted in real political idealism . |