Example sentences of "down [prep] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a quiet time and I would sit these fellows down for half an hour and take them through what they were doing . |
| 2 | Sit down for half an hour and anybody can do it . |
| 3 | Sit down for half an hour and anybody can do it . |
| 4 | I 'm not , I 've been sitting down for half an hour . |
| 5 | Why do n't you go and lie down for half an hour ? |
| 6 | I know what I need , to put my head down for half an hour this afternoon I wo n't be fit for nothing the night . |
| 7 | The Brighton Constabulary , whose marksmen had taken up positions from which they could command the Grand Hotel , was stood down after half an hour . |
| 8 | Sometimes when in the evening I lie down with half closed eyes looking at the sunset , I see the screen of the eyelashes and its wonders . |
| 9 | Mind you , we 'll go buy some and your Corrinne 'll be down with half a bag or summat daft like that ! |
| 10 | Five well what time does it start , five past ? as long as they 're down before half past seven . |
| 11 | See they said they were n't going down until half past |
| 12 | They got Midnight down in half an hour , after Jess had fetched water for him to drink , and then had cleaned him as best she could . |
| 13 | He 'd be down in half an hour though . |
| 14 | The bad news is revealed partly by the results for the first half year and partly by the company 's prediction that its borrowings will only be down to half shareholders ' funds even at the end-of-year low point after the Christmas rush . |
| 15 | You have the facility to slow the music down to half speed , but it is here that I think Ibanez have missed the point . |
| 16 | each each year it sort of goes down to half . |
| 17 | So a lot of the target planning I suppose that we 've come across is people saying well when I retire , I shall actually go down to half salary at best , that 's assuming th that you 've actually made half , about half salary on your pension being forty eightieths or whatever . |
| 18 | The idea is to create employment until the total unemployment is brought down to half a million . |
| 19 | cos the client might be in a position of saying , well , after six months , I 'm down to half salary , so you might have sold this plan , to pick up the other half , |
| 20 | Already doorstep sales are down to half of total milk sales . |
| 21 | And I brought it down to half a dozen staff . |
| 22 | Why do n't you ever go down to Half Price Jewels ? |
| 23 | I had have n't sat down since half past seven |
| 24 | Bere Forest also had a tough match against Meridian B and , once again , they found themselves a goal down at half time but they took a 2–1 lead in the second half before Meridian B equalized to take the game into extra time . |
| 25 | It was an important match , and after being 2–0 down at half time , that goal would have been the icing on the cake . |
| 26 | No the days were playing Shrewsbury Town at home — going in 2–0 down at half time — getting back to 2–2 , hitting the f**king post and then conceeding a goal in the last 5 minutes . |
| 27 | So 6-0 down at half time plenty of work to do , Bicester fly-half Neil Smith began the come-back ; 6-3 . |
| 28 | Well that he does he usually goes down at half six quarter to seven . |
| 29 | er , I know that erm , they were bad when we went down at half term |
| 30 | Almost as many movies were made here , but ‘ shooting days ’ were down by half ; independents on small budgets ca n't afford to waste time . |