Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] half [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A HANDMADE Lonsdale skipping rope is standard issue for boxers and will dramatically improve fitness and stamina — skipping for ten minutes is equivalent to jogging for half an hour . |
| 2 | In the middle of the night he rose and , after eating about half a jar of honey , felt a lot better . |
| 3 | On April 6 Brightness was lasooed and after struggling for half an hour was ignominiously hauled from the water . |
| 4 | At the base of the chamber is a half channel , often consisting of half a piece of drain pipe with half channels coming in from branch drains . |
| 5 | Staff were split into quality teams , meeting for half an hour each week , with team leaders meeting weekly , also for half an hour , to discuss suggestions raised by staff . |
| 6 | Are these projectural figures which he showed us the cash flow chart over there looking like half a pyramid ? |
| 7 | All the time Tabitha was listening with half an ear to the deep , slow throb of the engines , the background buzzes and creaks of the Alice Liddell in transit . |
| 8 | The popular habit of listening with half an ear to a radio during study is a deliberate division of attention . |
| 9 | Athelstan , now listening with half an ear to Sir John 's recitation , looked out of the window and wondered what had happened to Benedicta and Lady Maude . |
| 10 | Listening with half an ear as she examined the cluster of bottles on the draining-board , she caught the names of several authors and concluded that they were discussing contemporary novelists . |
| 11 | The barn was big and roomy , and they had always been able to play the noisiest games in it without fear of disturbing or upsetting anyone , for there was nobody living within half a mile of it . |
| 12 | When the big wigs arrived , however , they were barely acknowledged by a dour receptionist , told to sit in a grubby waiting area strewn with cigarette ends and empty coffee cups , and kept waiting for half an hour without either apology or explanation . |
| 13 | When you call at reception , you 're not kept waiting for half an hour , and the receptionists do n't even forget your name . |
| 14 | Sheriff Michael Munro imposed bail conditions forbidding Cowans from going within half a mile of the Timex factory at Harrison Road and preventing him from approaching anyone known or believed by him to be member of the new Timex workforce . |
| 15 | So you 're going in half an hour . |
| 16 | Exactly who , or what , triggered this Titanic blast , or what exactly was going on half an hour before it went off , we are not told . |
| 17 | Leading by half a length with just 250 metres to go , BRC were overhauled by Galway but the result is encouraging given the injuries the squad have coped with . |
| 18 | One crowd of pickets was prevented from getting within half a mile of the gates by lines of police officers , while a second group , who had managed to assemble earlier opposite the gates , was charged by police horses and dog handlers . |
| 19 | It will be flying in half a hemisphere , or less . |
| 20 | Then , when she was late , it was never more than ten or fifteen minutes , which the other employees frequently bettered , coming in half an hour over the odds due to tube delays or traffic jams . |
| 21 | ‘ Car 's coming in half an hour , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Character A — or it might have been B again , for he seemed to be a right prune — had left late or had left early travelling at half the speed of the other . |
| 23 | MORTGAGES NOW The housing market is running at half the volume of four years ago , but borrowers need to look carefully at what 's on offer from lenders |
| 24 | ‘ Emily ’ she says , ‘ do n't you think you could stop talking for half an hour ? |
| 25 | and not Norman , it 's the other one one of them anyway , he said hello Christopher where 's your mum ? talking for half an hour ! |
| 26 | I mean we 're only talking about half an hour or so er at some time around about eleven o'clock on Tuesday morning . |
| 27 | We 're talking about half an ounce , which does n't exactly sound like a weight problem , but it took me another day or so to take it off her . |
| 28 | She does n't know what she 's talking about half the time , she does n't know who anybody is . |
| 29 | Even though Matthew seems to exaggerate in talking of half a hundredweight of flour , the principle of yeast increasing the size of dough still stands . |
| 30 | Out of the confines of Easegill Kirk , the beck can be followed upstream without difficulty , passing more cave entrances on the south bank and arriving in half a mile at the waterfall of Cow Dub . |