Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] 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 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I lost the race and finished up trying to row half a dinghy with the crew cheering in the distance . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |