Example sentences of "[v-ing] with half [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The popular habit of listening with half an ear to a radio during study is a deliberate division of attention . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He is the former production manager of British Die Casting which in 1973 employed 143 at Chirton and was quoted in The shields News Guardian on 26 May 1988 as saying : ‘ We are producing double the output of the old British Die Casting with half the work force . ’ |