Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] half a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he said I was too innocent to realise how hard it was for him just to see me for half an hour and a kiss and cuddle . ’ |
| 2 | It was Urquhart , telling her to meet him in half an hour outside the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane . |
| 3 | ‘ Found her on half an acre in Buckinghamshire with her mother and got her for my youngest lad . |
| 4 | That we sit down with the figures and it might be another thing like we did with the bridal magazines , that we go to somebody and say , look we would like to do this to increase our turnover , will you fund us for half a year ? |
| 5 | " To a pint of cream put a pound of double-refined sugar , the juice of seven lemons , grate the rinds of two lemons into a pint of white wine , add half a pint of sack , then put them all into a deep pot , and whisk them for half an hour , put it into glasses the night before you want it : it is better for standing two or three days , but it will keep a week if required . " |
| 6 | I 'll see you in half an hour at the end of the session . " |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll see you in half an hour . |
| 8 | I 'll see you in half an hour , then , ’ Travis said , and left . |
| 9 | He wondered how much it would cost to buy her for half an hour . |
| 10 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 11 | But Charlton joint manager Alan Curbishley said : ‘ They slaughtered us for half an hour — but only half an hour . |
| 12 | I 'll meet you in half an hour . ’ |
| 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 | And they either say go and read the paper mum , I 'll call you in half an hour . |
| 15 | I took another deep breath — I only wanted to see him for half an hour — and said what I could . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've been trying to wake him for half an hour , ’ said Fritz . |
| 17 | I only saw him for half an hour . |
| 18 | It 's only thirty-seven or thirty-eight miles to Stratford — and Lewis here once managed it in half an hour . ’ |
| 19 | Can you make it in half an hour 's time , you know . |
| 20 | Jim did it in half an hour . |
| 21 | You do n't get it with half a Jaffa Cake . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | they leave it for half an hour . |
| 24 | She had been watching him for half an hour staring out at the view , motionless . |
| 25 | But actually I had her for half an hour to the commands and everything . |
| 26 | There 's no point leaving him with half a harem , and there 's no way of telling who 's important and who 's not . ’ |
| 27 | We ran it for half a century and left behind a road network , ginger beer and a cricket green in the capital , Corfu Town . |
| 28 | N. If you are knitting full needle rib then you can probably leave the stitch size a t the size you have been using , or increase it by half a number . |
| 29 | There was some people round here that were selling gear that were n't smack'eads and they 'd do you a lay on without any rings or surety or nothing and you 'd say , well , ‘ Lay us on half a gram and I 'll sell it , like ’ , and they 'd say , ‘ Alright ’ , and then you 'd go back a coupla days later and say , ‘ Look . |
| 30 | Er and Jane has sent us in some proposals , which erm she 's s since modified and is now working on and she 's calling in to see us for half a day in the near future |