Example sentences of "could [vb infin] half [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Really , he could use half an hour to digest the gobbets of this person . |
| 2 | I talked them into it because at first they were scared , one because they thought they 'd get docked for it — but they said we could have half a day off for it and not get docked — and also because they thought Ros and Maureen were going to be looking down on them , " Oh , you 're only young girls ' , things like that . |
| 3 | I felt shy of talking about my feelings with Terry and Tom and wished I could have half an hour alone with Brian . |
| 4 | There was a man here once , he could take half an hour to drink a bowl of soup , big as an ox . |
| 5 | It could take half an hour for a bomb disposal team to get to Royalbion House . |
| 6 | When he saw the saxaphone he told his father about it and his father said that if he could save half the money , he would make up the other half . ’ |
| 7 | That someone could get half the question right . |
| 8 | It is here in the tiny , pumping heart of Europe 's ready-to-wear industry that hundreds of sans-papiers , immigrants without work permits , come to be taken on for errands that could last half an hour or a day . |