Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] the first half " in BNC.

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1 Alan Johnson put the home side ahead in the first half with Kevin Langley and Gary Worthington adding further goals after the interval .
2 Leeds broke out of their defensive cocoon midway through the first half for Jones to win the match by meeting Mike Whitlow 's centre from the left at the near post and flicking it across Phil Parkes into the opposite corner .
3 Manor took the lead midway through the first half with a well-taken goal by Sean Annells .
4 Duncan Shearer shot them into the lead midway through the first half with his 21st goal of the season .
5 You know that old old saying about football being a funny game , well this tie was even funnier than that , Joey Beauchamp shot United into the lead midway through the first half .
6 Skipper , Derek Hall cracked them into the lead midway through the first half .
7 On tries the cherry and whites won by three to one … they looked sharp enough moving into attack … and looked good enough for victory … they even took the lead midway through the first half … with a well worked and well taken try by Tim Smith …
8 United took the lead midway through the first half .
9 It started well enough , with Dave Mitchell giving Town the lead midway through the first half .
10 Gary Blissett gave Brentford the lead midway through the first half , which was a bad one for the Town defence .
11 But I mean would that is the the the sort of the thing I would like to put an em emphasis on in the first half of the term .
12 Ironically it was Distillery who settled into the game and looked dangerous in a brief spell midway through the first half but in the space of two minutes Stephen Baxter 's shot was touched away by Kevin McKeown and midfielder Philip Mitchell 's header landed on the roof of the net .
13 On a difficult pitch Witney played some very attractive football , and with a little more luck could have finished the game off in the first half .
14 Joey Beauchamp had enough chances to wrap the game up in the first half .
15 Max Nicholson started and finished the move which brought the only goal of the game midway through the first half
16 Canterbury beat CD twice in the first half of the competition , first by three wickets on a dubious pitch in the initial first-class match at Burnside Park , Christchurch .
17 GEI International , the packaging machinery and special wire and cutting steels manufacturer , lifted profit again in the first half of the year .
18 South Shields found themselves having to rely on a mix-up in the defence late in the first half to let Gary Davies in to give them the lead at the interval .
19 The Leeds midfielder Gary McAllister missed a penalty later in the first half during a frustrating spell for Scotland .
20 Les Armstrong gave Gretna the lead with a shot from the edge of the box midway through the first half , but Shildon levelled fifteen minutes from time through Micky Taylor after being set up by Colin Blackburn .
21 Derby took control in a devastating 12-minute burst early in the first half .
22 Neil Ruddock 's goal midway through the first half lit the fuse … and when Steve McManaman exploded a right footer just before half-time every Town fan must have been fearing the worst …
23 Martyn Smith scored the all important goal midway through the first half .
24 ‘ Our keeper picked the ball out of the net twice in the first half and did n't have much else to handle . ’
25 Even Wallace 's goal late in the first half did not deflect their determination .
26 That in itself was an extraordinary development , because Nottingham had struggled in the scrum late in the first half and Northampton had dominated with nine successive put-ins in the second half .
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