Example sentences of "have [to-vb] half [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 : |
| 2 | Imagine gardens and grounds so huge one man has to spend half the year just trimming the grass verges . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The " yellows " will have to start half an hour earlier from tomorrow and treat five hundred trees each — instead of three hundred and fifty ! |
| 5 | You do n't have to spend half a day in a moving microwave oven racing lorries down the autostrada . |
| 6 | I 'd have to spend half an hour calming Dawn down after these attacks . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | One morning he woke up to discover the entire ‘ ARCHITECTURE ’ section stacked so high around his desk he had to wait half the day before pupils managed to free him . |
| 9 | ‘ I said some time ago that there was a mile to go and we had to go half a mile each , and the Community went more than its half a mile . |
| 10 | He had to drink half a bottle before they dared even ask him a question . ’ |
| 11 | Under the rules set by the Constitutional Court ( whose members are chosen by parliament ) , the president had to get half the electorate ( 53.5m people ) to approve an early parliamentary election . |
| 12 | ‘ Before I went in the ring , I had to spend half a day just cooling down my adrenaline . |
| 13 | Before he was shown his room and could get to bed , Charles had to spend half an hour with his French host and hostess , drinking coffee and little glasses of Framboise which he found nauseating . |
| 14 | and we still have to wait half an hour ! |
| 15 | Walkers have to drink half a pint of ale or lemonade at four pubs on the six mile route . |
| 16 | The one stumbling block is that people who come to the bank for loans have to pay half the consultant 's fee — which could come to several hundred pounds . |