Example sentences of "it [prep] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 2 | We ran it for half a century and left behind a road network , ginger beer and a cricket green in the capital , Corfu Town . |
| 3 | A neighbour who heard the bell , a sound she had never heard in all her fifteen years in the street , puzzled over it for half an hour and then went across the road to the school . |
| 4 | sort of read through a bit about it and then when you 've read it , put the book away and leave it for half an hour or an hour or something and then try and draw a rough outline of some of the main points . |
| 5 | In March we marked John 's seven hundredth day by erecting a cell-like cage in Covent Garden and persuading as many famous people as possible to come and stand in it for half an hour while the press filmed them . |
| 6 | The children play with it for half an hour , then run outside with their new toboggan instead . |
| 7 | What we 're saying is we 're giving you it for half price . |
| 8 | Alright well I think well I think actually well I know we 've droned on about it for half an hour but I think it 's worth a discussion to be quite honest , do n't you ? |
| 9 | they leave it for half an hour . |
| 10 | Anybody interested in going to the theatre from tonight onwards a member of the G M B if they 've produced a ticket , you 'll get it for half price at the King 's Theatre . |
| 11 | And one , if you ever wanted to do a bit of homework , to actually really get into the mood for something like this , you want to take a , a single piece , a single little newsy thing , and just practise , try and write it for half a dozen different outlets . |
| 12 | In the forty third minute , Foyle volleyed wide from fifteen yards when really he should have been on target after receiving from Magilton , and as referee Taylor was looking at his whistle to blow it for half time , United skipper , Steve Foster drove forward from the edge of the penalty area , shrugged off a couple of challenges , hit a good low shot , seemingly under the body of Gosney , but Gosney 's body just halted the flow of the ball . |
| 13 | He thus pioneered in this country the discursive , witty , exuberant , and surrealist style of humour he bequeathed to his close friend J. B. Morton [ q.v. ] , who took the column over in 1924 and developed it through half a century into an art form . |
| 14 | Well it past half past ten , you think he 'd be up and getting ready for work . |
| 15 | Erm cut it into half again and |
| 16 | Darius grabs a wedge , ices it with half an inch of butter , crams it in his mouth and washes it down with a can of Coke . |
| 17 | Edward Hamer , of Llanidloes , asked how New Zealand company Fortex , which is currently considering two shortlisted sites one near the Powys village , and another in Lockerbie , Scotland expected to create so many jobs when his company could do it with half the number . |
| 18 | You do n't get it with half a Jaffa Cake . |
| 19 | Remove any damaged outer leaves from the lettuce , cut it in half , then place cut side down on a board and thinly shred each half , using a sharp knife . |
| 20 | ‘ You break it in half and just stick it against your skin , and it stays there . ’ |
| 21 | Suddenly he reached across and snatched the photograph out of the Woman 's hand , ripping it in half and dropping the pieces on the floor . |
| 22 | Mrs Hollidaye spooned some chunks of marrow on to a slice of bread , cut it in half , and put it gently into Dot 's hand . |
| 23 | They said that , in the narrow passageway , a corridor whose opposite walls I can touch comfortably with two hands , I had picked up an aluminium chair , ripped it in half , swung it around and hit a policeman with it so hard that he had to shield his head . |
| 24 | Next time I was doing a partial water change , I decided to investigate further , and took the piece of coral , complete with mushroom polyps , out of the tank , and working quickly to avoid damaging the polyps , cracked it in half with a cold chisel . |
| 25 | If one of his drawings went wrong , he tore it in half with an angry gesture . |
| 26 | She held it between her forefingers and thumbs and neatly tore it in half . |
| 27 | ‘ They were sawing it in half and heaving all these rocks around on the Saturday morning trying to make it look like anything other than a total abortion . |
| 28 | Benin turned back to Vasili then gripped the cassette in both hands and snapped it in half , allowing the tape to spill out on to the road . |
| 29 | Take the first strip and fold it in half . |
| 30 | Then fold it in half again , and fold it in half again , and finally , fold it in half once . |