Example sentences of "have [verb] half [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has given half the designers in the business their start ; survived two famous resignations on principle ; been in prison and concentration camp ; outlived one wife and divorced another . |
| 2 | The consortium has underwritten half the purchase price , but has asked the Government to come up with the other half . |
| 3 | Meanwhile back on the ward , Doctor Beri 's bleep goes again … this time it 's a call to casualty … and the weary house physician has to run half a mile from one end of the building to the other … along the new corridor linking the old part of the hospital with the new.By the end of the morning , he 's covered six miles … one day recently he covered eighteen miles : |
| 4 | Jason Pierce has a rotten throat infection and has been forced to lay out $70 on antibiotics , drummer Jon Mattock has spent half an hour going round the college with a marker pen , adding Spiritualized 's name to the day-glo posters . |
| 5 | He has lost half a stone since his move from Tottenham , partly , he thinks , because French players do not have the English habit of sinking a few post-match lagers . |
| 6 | Imagine gardens and grounds so huge one man has to spend half the year just trimming the grass verges . |
| 7 | The Industrial Society has suggested half the management positions should be filled by women by the year 2000 . |
| 8 | Meredith was determined to show him that she could do without arrogant bankers who 'd heard half a story and jumped to the wrong conclusions . |
| 9 | I 'd had half a tab at prayers in the morning but it had worn off by now . |
| 10 | If we 'd had half the help from British Government for crumbling schools we 've had from Europe , we 'd have had a lot more done . |
| 11 | Oh , Oh , I took the dog for a walk last tonight , and there 's some skid marks down the end of Crouch Road the there 's the and then they 'd taken half the road out and you can see someone 's done a wheely , and they 've gone in and done like this business and shot off ! |
| 12 | The seventy five year old bachelor had finally got his girl at the second time of asking years He 'd waited half a century for this kiss with his new bride Rose , and he still could n't believe his luck . |
| 13 | and I 'd lost half a stone in weight . |
| 14 | The house was built by a local architect called Cecil , an old man with a raspy white beard , who 'd lost half an arm to a wayward chainsaw . |
| 15 | Her father could not possibly have owned a house like this , nor could he have owned half the things in it . |
| 16 | His father could n't be home yet because he would have turned half the lights off again . |
| 17 | The result is that a student may have answered half the paper in a manner worthy of a Law Lord , and yet obtain a third class because he has not answered the other half . |
| 18 | No but you see I could n't tell you at the start because you 'd sound , you would n't have said half the things you did say . |
| 19 | Discreetly looking at the price , and mentally reviewing how much money she had on her , and thinking wryly that perhaps , after all , she should have accepted half the prize money for the leprechaun , she bought it . |
| 20 | Er because having written half the songs as well , the lyrics all mean something so I may as well have spoken them as sung them . |
| 21 | ‘ That one scene took up a whole morning and I did think to myself I could have written half a script in that time . |
| 22 | Alyssia blew some of the flyaway blonde strands away from her face and followed them to a small table at the back of the café , hoping that she would not have to endure half an hour of French conversation while she sat on the sidelines , wondering whether what they were discussing was really as animated and interesting as it appeared . |
| 23 | He remembers clubs and halls , the £1,500 a week he was paid when that would have bought half a street ; and then he remembers Leslie Grade . |
| 24 | Nick and Clem will have invited half the world and his wife , anyway . |
| 25 | The " yellows " will have to start half an hour earlier from tomorrow and treat five hundred trees each — instead of three hundred and fifty ! |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | She must have spent half an hour making herself up . |
| 28 | Offered a settlement that would have retrieved half the gold , Moreira sternly refused — and has not had any of it back . |
| 29 | We must have waited half an hour . |
| 30 | ‘ You could n't have waited half an hour — that 's all the journey from Olbia takes — and saved me the inconvenience of having to hang around for almost an hour ? ’ |