Example sentences of "[v-ing] half [art] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was this that had prevented me from resting half a day here or there , from starting late in the morning and from stopping early in the evening . |
| 2 | This was all happening half a century ago , before the invention of the aqualung . |
| 3 | She was still trembling half an hour later , as she huddled beneath a small gateway , trying to keep her footing on the wet grass of the embankment . |
| 4 | Yet , writing half a century later , Sir John Fortescue recognised that Henry V had been right : ‘ though we have not alwey werre uppon the see , yet it shalbe nescessarie that the kynge [ Edward IV ] have alway some ffloute apon the see , ffor the repressynge off rovers , savynge off owre marchauntes , owre ffishers , and the dwellers uppon owre costes ; and that the kynge kepe alway some grete and myghty vessels , ffor the brekynge off an armye when any shall be made ayen hym apon the see ; ffor thanne it shall be to late to do make such vessailles ’ . |
| 5 | Germany 's Rolf Waldmann took line honours on his Honda in a thrilling 125cc Grand Prix , finishing half a wheel ahead of Italy 's Alessandro Gramigni , on an Aprilia . |
| 6 | That 's the equivalent of a medium-sized man losing half a stone overnight , and it could be fatal for a bird . |
| 7 | From here they can see convoys coming half a mile away . |
| 8 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |