Example sentences of "[prep] the first half [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fourteen pound for the firs er twelve pound for the first half and fourteen for the second . |
| 2 | The police moved in during the first half and then at half-time as a mob of Englishmen taunted and threatened Spanish fans in Santander . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That was midway through the first half and Town should have gone in two up . |
| 6 | After Juergen Klinsmann had fired the Germans ahead Riedle scored twice in five minutes midway through the first half and put Germany 4–1 clear with his third in the 59th minute . |
| 7 | Middlesbrough had the better of the first half once they survived the opening quarter of an hour when Ironside , deputising for the injured Pears , kept them on terms . |
| 8 | Aberdeen went ahead towards the end of the first half after Duncan Shearer chased a ball to the byeline that some would have given up for dead , and made the cross from which Mixu Paatelainen bundled the ball over the line . |
| 9 | They had slightly the better of the first half but a poor pass to Sleightholme lost one chance and then Sleightholme could not touch down a useful kick by Maynard , Stabler getting there first . |
| 10 | Woodmill controlled the game for much of the first half but could not get through the Meridian defence and it was n't until two and a half minutes into the second half that the deadlock was finally broken . |
| 11 | Leeds also had the ball in the net with the last kick of the first half but it was disallowed for no apparent reason . |
| 12 | France dominated most of the first half but the home side , one of South Africa 's weaker provinces , came back after trailing 15–3 at half-time to threaten an upset . |
| 13 | To their great credit , Romania looked far from demoralised on the field , driving the Scots on to the back foot for much of the first half and restricting the scoreline to 3-0 until the 39th minute . |
| 14 | Are you gon na repeat the miracle of the first half and sen sell some more land in Thurrock in the second half ? |
| 15 | Just gone , we 're obviously working to Italian time in this Italian job because we 've had really five minutes of stoppage time at the end of the first half and I 'm a bit baffled as to why we had it . |
| 16 | One moment of magic came in the late stages of the first half when Holy Cross 's Brian Lockhart surged into the danger area before pivoting past two defenders and then slotting the ball in the basket . |
| 17 | Trinity held an early 6-4 lead , but were hit with two tries in the final six minutes of the first half as Saints finally clicked into gear . |
| 18 | Manager Atkinson said : ‘ I thought QPR were having the better of the first half until Deano did what he 's good at — scoring a goal when there is not really anything on . |
| 19 | There was a stage about two thirds into the first half when ( because they had n't scored yet despite aggressive assaults on the West Ham box ) Batty square-balled it after crossing into their area . |
| 20 | Longman had a very , very er , very good increase in profits and the Addison Wesley loss , which is bigger in the first half than usual er , is n't something that bothers me particularly , I 'm really quite relaxed about full year performance , but just to make sure they 're er , attacking erm , expenses , travel , administration , that kind but nothing in the erm , book investment programme . |
| 21 | ‘ The referee could have given us two penalties in the first half but the one he did give did n't look much from where I was in the dug-out . |
| 22 | RUC had slightly the edge in the first half but neither goalie had any shots to save during the period . |
| 23 | Cork were playing into the strong wind in the first half but made the early running with a sixth minute goal from Barry Egan . |
| 24 | Against San Marino at Hampden in November 1991 , Scotland scored three times in the first half but then finished up with so many forwards that order went out the window and only one more goal was scored amid the scramble created by having Mo Johnston and Kevin Gallacher supplement John Robertson , McCoist and Gordon Durie . |
| 25 | Gazza headed home Signori 's free kick to tie the scores at 1-1 in the first half but took a knock on the ankle just before halftime and was less influential in the second half . |
| 26 | Brian Hopgood of Marsden Avenue , Irby , said he played for ADS Graphics in the first half but became a spectator when he was substituted just after half time . |
| 27 | The Dutch , sorely missing injured striker Marco van Basten , squandered numerous chances in the first half while Norway were content to defend . |
| 28 | Steve Clark and Keith Knox scored for Alex Smith 's side in a five-minute spell in the first half before Darren Henderson got a late consolation for the Dumfries side . |
| 29 | That in itself was an extraordinary development , because Nottingham had struggled in the scrum late in the first half and Northampton had dominated with nine successive put-ins in the second half . |
| 30 | Chinyou , who had been United 's best player on the day , was booked in the first half and he limped off just after the break , and his departure was to prove a turning point . |