Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] half [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I met Mike , he strolled into the office and apologised for bringing half a farm yard with him . |
| 2 | Under rules which came into effect last autumn , as his sentence was less than four years , he will be freed from jail automatically after serving half the term , unless he reoffends . |
| 3 | In both games he scored brilliant individual goals after running half the length of the pitch . |
| 4 | The scene closed with judge and prisoner bowing solemnly to one another , and the latter , after spending half an hour discoursing with his supporters in the courtroom , being led off to prison wreathed in smiles . |
| 5 | ‘ The police will have you believe that on the night of 12 September , after consuming half a tin of pilchards , she decided life was not worth living and hacked off her left leg with a non-existent sharp instrument . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , even with the practice of awarding half a star over the minimum grading the system is not entirely satisfactory as standards and even prices very enormously in each star grade . |
| 7 | They will wince at the idea of paying for their children 's school books or having their gallstones removed , but think nothing of spending half a year 's income on a car . |
| 8 | I lingered , on the pretext of finishing half a glass of champagne . |
| 9 | The undercarriage included a crane-necked perch with semi-circular springs which were each capable , it was estimated , of bearing half a ton . |
| 10 | He could tell of earning half a crown a week and leading the horse pulling the Putney clubs ' boats home from Henley , and of the visit of Harvard to race Cambridge at Putney in 1906 . |
| 11 | Instead of burning half the fag darling . |
| 12 | That 's like getting half a bag of sugar a day to live on . |
| 13 | However , the fact is that for approaching half a century British cities have been publicly regulated by a system designed to guide , shape and control the form and appearance of the urban environment . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's earning four times too much for doing half the job . ’ |
| 15 | I was very lucky ; Clarence House has a reputation for giving half an hour and then that 's it . |
| 16 | Niki 's phlegm about the whole incident can be summed up in what must be the driver 's quote of the decade : ‘ There is no point in having a complex about losing half an ear . ’ |
| 17 | It was this that had prevented me from resting half a day here or there , from starting late in the morning and from stopping early in the evening . |
| 18 | the labour because erm I ca n't see any point in doing half a job . |
| 19 | A RAILWAY clerk sacked for drinking half a shandy at his farewell do celebrated his reprieve yesterday — with the same tipple at his local . |
| 20 | I insist on paying half the fare . ’ |
| 21 | I saved myself by hurling half a brick into the darkness . |
| 22 | The bars here are unique in that unlike the rest of ‘ puritan ’ Germany , they only close for an hour a day to let the cleaners in ( many bars even pour drink through a loophole by cleaning half the bar at a time — prost ! ) |
| 23 | We prepared ourselves for the experience by drinking half a bottle of brandy each — I was worried about him until then . |