Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] half [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Renamo was said to have proposed an army of 24,000 soldiers , with a further 1,000-strong air force and 800-strong navy , with each side contributing half the force . |
| 2 | Scaup must be just about the loneliest farm in England , tucked down in the shelter of the hills with Kielder Forest 's dark mass blocking its southward view and the narrowing valley of the burn filling half the sky to the north . |
| 3 | The majority of the vineyards are located to the north and north-west of the village commencing half a kilometre north-west of Ambonnay itself , where the land rises to about 20 metres . |
| 4 | She was the maid at Drew 's Maidstone lodgings , who had witnessed the actor spending half an hour in the garden of the premises trying desperately to clean a navy blue jacket . |
| 5 | Psychics describe the aura as a rainbow emanation radiating half a metre or more around the body , more or less ovoid in shape . |
| 6 | It was a sentence spending half an hour in that place — I did n't know how Bob would cope with three years . |
| 7 | In a career spanning half a century Davis appeared in numerous major films but practically no great ones , a distinction that , in truth , may have been irrelevant to an actress for whom the role , rather than the film encompassing it , was primordial . |
| 8 | In France , honour is satisfied by a low-level court case taking half an hour . |
| 9 | That 's the equivalent of a medium-sized man losing half a stone overnight , and it could be fatal for a bird . |
| 10 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 11 | He found another Brahmin cultivating half an acre of land which Ragu had laid claim to and beat the man up with a stick , causing arm fracture , hospitalization and a court case . |