Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [num ord] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No more risque sketches and you 're to get everything toned down in the second half . ’ |
| 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 | Forest , held to a 1-1 draw at the City Ground , were 3-1 ahead with 17 minutes of normal time left , and deservedly so ; they had come out for the second half bristling with determination to make quality tell . |
| 4 | The Report was intended as a review , giving a complete survey ( according to its prospectus ) of Chemistry and its Allied Sciences ; it was to come out in the first half of the year following that reviewed ; and it would give a faithful and ‘ whenever necessary , a complete digest of each investigation ’ in chemistry , and its applications in pharmacy , arts and manufactures . |
| 5 | Paul came on in the second half of the game in Dublin last week and played well . |
| 6 | Only 365 people turned up and to add insult to injury , the lights had to be turned on in the second half when a storm blew up , plunging the ground into darkness . |
| 7 | At half-time a note was passed to the Scottish dressing-room telling the young striker that he would be shot if he did not ease off in the second half . |
| 8 | Stevie Gallagher 's shot was brilliantly saved by Andy Blackwood as Dunmurry came back in the second half but the visitors went two ahead through a penalty by Andy McMenamin and the cross from the right was turned in by Gareth Healey for the third with eight minutes left . |
| 9 | Bordon came out for the second half in determined mood and soon Wilson made up for a number of misses by flicking in the third goal . |
| 10 | They came out in the second half a much more committed side and proceeded to alter the whole complexion of the game with two goals from Paul Doney and Andrew Milne . |
| 11 | Only Aston Villa defender Ugo Ehiogu and Arsenal midfielder Ray Parlour , who limped off in the second half , emerged with any great credit . |
| 12 | There was no question of easing off in the second half . |
| 13 | Leading on to the second half I 'd er very quickly like to introduce you to Huw er from er one of the U K's if in fact er worldwide now leading er leading developers of of financial software , and he will be er talking to th talking through to you his experiences er in developing with . |
| 14 | After attempting last month 's first 8-bars of the 16-bar solo from Linda Ronstadt 's That 'll Be The Day , we 'll crack on with the second half this month . |
| 15 | A legally binding agreement to implement this 14-page political declaration was scheduled to be drawn up in the first half of 1992 . |
| 16 | As the play blundered on into the second half , the Airdrie strategy was clear — to ignore any pretence of building attacks from the back of the team through to the midfield . |
| 17 | They seemed to give up in the second half , failed to mark anyone , gave Wallace ( who was running riot ) as much space as he wanted , and left Quinn up , waddling around ( usually into an offside position ) like a half-deflated barrage baloon ( with a tache ) . |
| 18 | Ewshot fought back in the second half and Murphy , despite an injury to his nose , covered acres of ground in both attack and defence to keep them at bay . |
| 19 | This demographic pattern was laid down in the first half of the century when the inter-war birth-rate declined markedly . |
| 20 | One is that the , the impact of quotes and the other improvements coming through in the second half of the year will reduce some of that impact anyway and also that that hundred thousand pounds overspend is sig is over-skewed because the proportion of quotes work in there is actually making a , making a difference too . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , shades of Intel Inside , expect to see a PowerPC image campaign starting up in the second half . |
| 22 | ‘ Gary showed great courage in coming back in the second half even though the injury was very painful . ’ |
| 23 | Wolves , who are beginning to look for a place in the promotion play-offs , hit back in the second half after Scott Sellars had poached a fine first-half goal . |
| 24 | Once we have incorporated the Maastricht treaty into our law — presumably , as my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said , in the first Session of the new Parliament — we must press on in the second half of 1992 , when we have the presidency of the Community , to set out more clearly our vision of a common European future . |
| 25 | The war went on throughout the second half of 1 168 . |
| 26 | Inter , second at the start of play , crashed 3-0 at second-from-bottom Ancona and had former Italy goalkeeper Walter Zenga sent off in the first half . |
| 27 | an expensive miss … was followed up in the second half by an even more expensive mistake … as Tommy Mooney was presented with a chance to make it two nil … |
| 28 | If you go back erm or let's go back to the second half of the seventeenth century , that 's always a good time to go to erm when erm well it was just after the English revolution , just after the English civil war , the Charles the First had been executed . |
| 29 | And erm , anyway , I 'm , I 'm sorry to have to tell you that but erm now we 'll get on with the second half of the meeting . |
| 30 | The losers were disrupted by a head injury to prop Seamus Foley , who was forced off in the first half . |