Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | They come round at the interval and say , ‘ Was Ruby on for the first half ? ’ and I say , ‘ Yes . ’ |
| 2 | The 19-stone prop , cleared by the French RU Federation , went on as a second half replacement and played for almost half an hour . |
| 3 | The police moved in during the first half and then at half-time as a mob of Englishmen taunted and threatened Spanish fans in Santander . |
| 4 | Deane was playing well out of position acting as a left wing , to such an extent that he got a few crosses in during the first half . |
| 5 | If a man was lucky it was a case of pop in for a quick half , then home to a meal of bubble and squeak with the Missus . |
| 6 | Oxford have dropped down into the bottom half of the table , after losing by 1-0 for the third match running . |
| 7 | Deep down in a blue half light of the control room , American sailors huddle over their radar screens , plotting its progress towards Iraq . |
| 8 | ‘ No more risque sketches and you 're to get everything toned down in the second half . ’ |
| 9 | This demographic pattern was laid down in the first half of the century when the inter-war birth-rate declined markedly . |
| 10 | The top half of it slides down over the bottom half so that it can be lowered right down to table-top level when a debate is going on and a speaker is sitting down . |
| 11 | One half has then to be turned over before the two halves are trimmed and married up . |
| 12 | One is that the , the impact of quotes and the other improvements coming through in the second half of the year will reduce some of that impact anyway and also that that hundred thousand pounds overspend is sig is over-skewed because the proportion of quotes work in there is actually making a , making a difference too . |
| 13 | Parting the curtains , he went through to the front half of the room . |
| 14 | The war went on throughout the second half of 1 168 . |
| 15 | Mrs Major 's party set off for the northern half of the seat to goad the faithful and stir the idle while Mr Major toured the south . |
| 16 | It was lads from Garforth who stole the 1829 pole , but a group from Aberford managed to make off with the top half in 1907 . |
| 17 | At half-time a note was passed to the Scottish dressing-room telling the young striker that he would be shot if he did not ease off in the second half . |
| 18 | That does not suit every executive , particularly as the growth in profits has levelled off in the second half of this year . |
| 19 | Only Aston Villa defender Ugo Ehiogu and Arsenal midfielder Ray Parlour , who limped off in the second half , emerged with any great credit . |
| 20 | There was no question of easing off in the second half . |
| 21 | Steaua 's Ionel Fulga and Antwerp 's Rudy Taeymans were sent off in the second half , Fulga for dangerous play and Taeymans for a second bookable offence . |
| 22 | The losers were disrupted by a head injury to prop Seamus Foley , who was forced off in the first half . |
| 23 | Inter , second at the start of play , crashed 3-0 at second-from-bottom Ancona and had former Italy goalkeeper Walter Zenga sent off in the first half . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | As the play blundered on into the second half , the Airdrie strategy was clear — to ignore any pretence of building attacks from the back of the team through to the midfield . |
| 26 | After attempting last month 's first 8-bars of the 16-bar solo from Linda Ronstadt 's That 'll Be The Day , we 'll crack on with the second half this month . |
| 27 | And erm , anyway , I 'm , I 'm sorry to have to tell you that but erm now we 'll get on with the second half of the meeting . |
| 28 | The BBC itself , via its Enterprises section , rescued the day by coming up with the other half of a total £450,000 budget . |
| 29 | The consortium has underwritten half the purchase price , but has asked the Government to come up with the other half . |
| 30 | It is expected that the Home Office will come up with the other half of the sum . |