Example sentences of "[prep] half a [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Almsmead , the house they had built , was big enough , she felt quite certain , for half a dozen pairs of newly married turtle-doves to lose themselves in delicious privacy whenever they chose . |
| 2 | He used t he used t he used to take about half a dozen bottles of beer on the Saturday morning with him and that 's where he used to be in his , in his galley and he would n't move out that galley all the time . |
| 3 | The cigar waved in the general direction of half a dozen kinds of salami and some boletus mushrooms . |
| 4 | That to be honest is , is somebody who 's like , been doing this for ten years and has already got themselves like half a million pounds of worth of equity . |
| 5 | I ought to be married with half a dozen kids of my own . |
| 6 | Special attention will focus upon half a dozen versions of the Camden Town murder paintings , including the small but particularly dramatic ‘ L'affaire de Camden Town ’ ( 1908–1909 , private collection ) , the two versions of King Edward VIII ( 1936 , Beaverbrook Art Gallery and private collection ) , and the large study for ‘ The Raising of Lazarus ’ ( 1929 , Art Gallery of South Australia ) , originally executed in broad sweeps of the brush on the wallpaper of Sickert 's studio . |
| 7 | ‘ It is a macabre thought ’ , wrote Monica Furlong in the Spectator ( 30 June ) , ‘ that if the Canterbury Special had crashed last Tuesday morning it would have wiped out at one go practically the whole of the English episcopate together with numerous foreign archbishops and bishops , most of the Orthodox patriarchs , the leaders of the Lutheran Churches in half a dozen countries of Europe and the heads of our own Free Churches . ’ |