Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [num ord] half [coord] " in BNC.

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1 A Wembley spectator , Busby thought Sunderland were outclassed in the second half but not disgraced .
2 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 .
3 But erm we went into half time , and we were very pleased with the way things had gone , and it was just a case of trying to keep it going erm we stopped them from playing erm and then we came off the second half and everything just seemed to go wrong for us .
4 To add to Darlington 's problems , centre Steve Ellis was injured in the second half and club skipper Mark Layfield was called into action for the first time in two months following injury .
5 They had one shot in the first half and that was seen off by Paul Reece .
6 This led to restructuring costs , including redundancies and closures and other one-time charges totalling approximately twenty million dollars , of which approximately eighteen million dollars came in the second half and a very large portion of that in the last quarter of the year .
7 Treviso , who finished as runners-up in the Italian league , flourished in the first half and took the lead with a second try .
8 ‘ Something happened in the first half and I lashed out , giving him a kick up the backside .
9 Saints again struggled to get going in the second half and had to wait until three minutes from time for their final try through Hunte after numerous handling mistakes .
10 Our clear frustration showed in the second half and we are as disappointed as our fans .
11 ‘ We did n't compete in the first half and if we miss tackles like that we 're not going to beat anybody .
12 Next 's 8 p.c. fewer high street shops , to 312 , returned to profit in the second half and sales rose 6 p.c. year-on-year after a 9 p.c. second-half rise .
13 This was n't sufficient to make up the ground lost in the first half and the outcome for the year as a whole , you now see .
14 ‘ We improved in the second half and I was very pleased with our teamwork , with everybody pulling for each other .
15 ‘ At the same time , the midfield was overrun in the second half and the defence made some horrendous errors .
16 What were these what was the sales area of the how much sales area did you actually release in the first half and how much do you expect to go in the second ?
17 Making his 17th successive appearance since replacing Henry Smith in December , Walker was voted man of the match , which was mainly thanks to a fingertip save from a Michael O'Neill shot in the first half and a crucial stop which denied Paddy Connolly with only ten minutes remaining .
18 But operating profits improved in the second half and the company can take some credit for the reduction in gearing to just 5 p.c .
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