Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] half [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're going to alienate half the city , put my father 's life at risk , all for what ? |
| 2 | I thought no way were we going to have half an hour of this and thought why not make our own ? |
| 3 | I think that when it 's expressed in terms of the kind of real conditions of child sexual abuse and rape and sexual harassment and domestic violence and getting paid half the amount of money that men get paid and not having any reproductive rights and sterilisation abuse — these really basic issues that feminism has addressed . |
| 4 | Of course , having spent half the night touring round in the pouring rain searching for Travis would n't sweeten anyone 's temper , would it , least of all his ? |
| 5 | If in battle I see an explosion and my comrade , having lost half a leg , is doubled up in agony , there is no possibility that he is acting or pretending . |
| 6 | Who cares where they put the Channel Tunnel terminal when what really makes you cross is having to travel half an hour to find a park in which our kids can play — except , that is , if your street is in the line of blight ? |
| 7 | With the company preparing to celebrate half a century in the town next year it meant a Royal ending could be written into its story . |
| 8 | I lost the race and finished up trying to row half a dinghy with the crew cheering in the distance . |
| 9 | ‘ First you try to disarm me by offering to pay half the fare and now you 're telling me I 'm allowed to despise a criminal . ’ |
| 10 | Explicit collusion would involve the firms in talking to each other , explicitly agreeing to produce half the monopoly output each , and , quite possibly , agreeing also that deviation by one would be punished by a price war . |