Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] half [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been waiting half an hour . |
| 2 | and what women are experiencing half the time is perfectly rational . |
| 3 | He was dead to the world , so deeply asleep that she wondered what on earth he could have been doing half the night . |
| 4 | At certain times of the month and whatever , I could be using half a gram a day and towards the end of the month whatever money I had left went on It . |
| 5 | G. is pleased with the response at the company — not only do they report as soon as possible when they 've got a pollution , they let him know about the progress they make : ‘ I 've got them so well trained now they 'll be phoning half an hour before they have a discharge . ’ |
| 6 | Because it 's been that long keeping an eye on them that they could be supplying half the business on our time with and then a hundred per cent the rest of the time . |
| 7 | A lot of them were slow , and did n't know what they were doing half the time : they 'd give you the wrong medicine . |
| 8 | She does n't know what she 's doing half the time ! |
| 9 | All those seeds and apples were V , virile , and X , extremely bitter to the taste — not to say inedible — because of all the insects in them , which , since , Ketone-Etone-Methyl-Tri-Di-Meta-post-Oxy-Chlorane had been banned , flourished alarmingly ; if there is one thing more off-putting than finding a maggot in your apple it is finding half a maggot in your apple . |