Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] half [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I mean half a bottle to do the top and the down , you can do that bit , measure if you like . |
| 2 | I mean half a crown size . |
| 3 | I mean half a side . |
| 4 | I mean half the time I think I do n't remember anything because er er , people are so busy blooming playing around and |
| 5 | I eat half a banana . |
| 6 | I want half the winnings . |
| 7 | ‘ Not so much grind as bury in the back of the little bastard 's head if I get half a chance . ’ |
| 8 | So I assume Half a Sixpence is finished . |
| 9 | do if I 've got anything , but I find half the time , I mean , it 's like jeans and things , if you go into Marks 's you can spend fifteen pound on a |
| 10 | ‘ I suppose half a robbery is better than a full robbery , ’ said Duff . |
| 11 | Now I think half the problem is that most of the people working in the press are in fact amateurs in the sense they 're not specialists in your particular subject except perhaps in the trade press . |
| 12 | I think half the crowd were on their way home , down Headington Hill , down Lime Walk , bemoaning United not scoring for the second week in succession , then up steps Andy Melville . |
| 13 | I think half the people who 've come to see the house suspect I 'm a sitting tenant . ’ |
| 14 | In those three days I think half the nursing staff at the hospital came up to wave . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've half a mind to stop her going up there , ’ Nora told Louise . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've half a mind to take off , and have a look from the ceiling , ’ whispers Howard . |
| 17 | ‘ In fact , I 've half a mind to join you two girls tomorrow in Sherwood Forest , and perhaps we could arrange to lose Anna somewhere in the bosky glades . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I take half the coke and my boy gets to be water boy for the Flamingoes and sit on the bench . ’ |
| 19 | Now I have half a page of Winnie the Pooh , if I 'm lucky , and do n't get the jokes at all . |
| 20 | And I have half a mind to take you at your word , give you what you seem to want and turn you out of my house after I have finished with you . ’ |
| 21 | I have half a mind to defy their demands of space and economy , and to sleep on until awakened by the next pale arrival herself , expectant to abort and puzzled at my slumbering presence . |
| 22 | Type 8 I have half an hour to spare before I need go . |
| 23 | As one mother in Ritchie 's study of families on benefit noted : ‘ I buy half a pound of stewing meat or something and give that to Sid and the kiddies and then I just have the gravy — before I used to buy soya things and substitutes to meat but I ca n't afford that now ’ ( Ritchie , 1990 , p. 35 ) . |
| 24 | Nobody rushes to my rescue shouting ‘ overtime ’ if I work half the night to keep the business going . |
| 25 | ‘ No , no , my boy , you lose half the flavour that way , ’ frowned his father . |
| 26 | He said that 's what you 've got to do first thing Monday morning , find out where that car is , he said , and then you want half the money |
| 27 | If you stop him , you stop half the team but we did n't do that today . ’ |
| 28 | She said , Well , Izzy busybody , you go doo-lally tap if you put half a toe on a crack in the pavement , I 've seen you . |
| 29 | Someone says something particularly stupid in a shop , or you wait half an hour in the British Rail canteen because someone ca n't decide whether they want some fruitcake or not . |
| 30 | The general point here and I want to make is that er , these are n't officers ' promises these are the members ' promises and er , erm , we 've got to be careful that er when they 're all drawn together that we are n't making a hostage fortune , erm and so that I think it is very important members take aboard er what is suggested and test them themselves to see that they are realistic , I would also say that er as these promises are being considered by the various committees and I note a considerable variation in standards which will need to be addressed when the promises er , have come back to the Policy Committee , these are particularly in reference to the time required to respond to er , erm complaints etc , it 's no use having the Highways Committee wanting two weeks and incidentally on promise number two erm I think that er any up , somebody else 's point er straight forward wants to be deleted , erm the highways require two weeks to respond er , erm hearts and libraries want a , you know half a day , er and we 've got to get these er erm more or less synchronized I think , and whilst I 'm thinking Chairman on the last page er of the er favourite for , for first for agent authorities , but it does n't give any indication about the contact point and as most of our population live in the agent authorities that the er it needs to be expanded to give the contacts er points for the members of the public . |