Example sentences of "up in the [adj] half " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We 've just got to get our heads up in the second half of the season and go all out to qualify for Europe again . ’
2 Villa had their tails up in the second half and Atkinson and Staunton both had chances to increase their lead .
3 Meanwhile , shades of Intel Inside , expect to see a PowerPC image campaign starting up in the second half .
4 They can make a decent case that economic growth will pick up in the second half of the year .
5 They always , they always lag as you know , our , our , we always underspend capital in the first half against what our division think they 're gon na do and they always think they 're gon na catch it up in the second half , they never do but erm , it wo n't be , you know , it wo n't be materially different .
6 They seemed to give up in the second half , failed to mark anyone , gave Wallace ( who was running riot ) as much space as he wanted , and left Quinn up , waddling around ( usually into an offside position ) like a half-deflated barrage baloon ( with a tache ) .
7 an expensive miss … was followed up in the second half by an even more expensive mistake … as Tommy Mooney was presented with a chance to make it two nil …
8 Hereford wrapped things up in the second half .
9 In their defence , Oxford did pick things up in the second half , Druce did all the running , Walker placed the header , but Salmon was n't going to let the match slip through his fingers .
10 But manager Derek Brownbill explained : ‘ We rolled our sleeves up in the second half and showed a lot of character .
11 Portadown piled them up in the first half .
12 A legally binding agreement to implement this 14-page political declaration was scheduled to be drawn up in the first half of 1992 .
13 Joey Beauchamp had enough chances to wrap the game up in the first half .
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