Example sentences of "[prep] half [art] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour 's spokeswoman on the economy , Margaret Beckett , says the Chancellor has n't stolen her Party 's cloak , and says that if the government had taken her Party 's advice a year ago , the economy would n't have gone through half the pain it has . |
| 2 | For half a second you might have thought his fist had smashed me across the room , except that I follow through my dive into a roll and end up squatting on the floor , eight feet away , with the pistol pointing straight at his guts . |
| 3 | Volunteer Eileen said : ‘ For half a second I thought it was a hoax but as he began to name the four streets I took him seriously . ’ |
| 4 | This is as true in any detective novel as it is in scientific research or investigative journalism , and in supposing that the test-tube fusion idea had been overlooked for half a century we are already repeating a media ‘ factoid ’ that is incorrect . |
| 5 | For half the trip I sat on the floor of the plane , holding the boy 's hand , watching the drip . |
| 6 | And you 'll find for half the pack it 's one a day and then for the second half of the pack it 's two a day . |
| 7 | Until a few years ago , married women had to have paid full NI contributions for half the time they were married and working to get anything at all in their own right . |
| 8 | For half an hour they followed the telltale red blotches until finally they petered out in a glade surrounded by dense thickets of thorn and bamboo . |
| 9 | For half an hour they had lain in each other 's arms in the creaking guest-house bed , too scared with happiness to move . |
| 10 | And then for half an hour they make small talk . |
| 11 | For half an hour they talked over student days and student friends and then there was a long pause . |
| 12 | ‘ For half an hour it was scary and now it seems funny , ’ says Gordon . |
| 13 | For half an hour he took tea and biscuits with them , and discussed the problems of weight reduction through additional use of gallium worked into plutonium . |
| 14 | The pain of returning circulation was violent , and for half an hour he bit his lips and clenched the muscles that still worked to keep himself from moaning . |
| 15 | For half an hour I thought that was the end of our career . |
| 16 | After skulking around for half an hour I spotted a kestrel in a tree nearby . |
| 17 | For half an hour she lay on the floor in pain before they finally left with a hoard of silverware . |
| 18 | But erm after I 'd choked for half an hour she went to sleep I eventually went back to sleep again and |
| 19 | Then after half a year we get the tapes and they go back and we say that something may have to be changed . |
| 20 | After half a mile he decided to turn off the embankment and walk up the side of the next field and along the path at the top of it , following the horses whom he could still see in the distance . |
| 21 | After half a mile she had rejected this hypothesis and decided that it was merely because she was unattractive , the sort of person who , fifty years ago , would have worn rubber galoshes . |
| 22 | So Elizabeth told her everything that had happened today and after half an hour they decided to tell everyone what the they had done at the disco that night . |
| 23 | After half an hour he went off to watch the match against the Chelsea of Ian Porterfied , his erstwhile colleague . |
| 24 | After half an hour I was still waiting , so I gave him an experimental pull and the hook came back minus the barbel . |
| 25 | He had got under her skin , and after half an hour she went home alone , not content with second-best . |
| 26 | After half an hour she had to admit defeat . |
| 27 | If he had bumped into anyone worthy of half a mention he would have told us . |
| 28 | The association provided flats for young couples who after two years were given a return of half the rent they had paid to be used as a deposit on the purchase of a house . |
| 29 | With half an eye you may at least be able to detect the general direction of a predator 's movement , even if you ca n't focus a clear image . |
| 30 | A boat returned me to the little coral landing-strip ; Friendly Islands Airways took me down to Tongatapu ; and within half a day I was settled in a small hotel in Auckland , waiting for the weekly Cathay Pacific jet home . |