Example sentences of "half [art] time [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They use the handouts you give them — but half the time they put some snide twist on the story . |
| 2 | She and Donald had started to take risks — they wanted each other so much that the reality of other people had dimmed for them , half the time they felt cloaked in invisibility . |
| 3 | Half the time they did n't understand what you was trying to tell them , and you could feel yourself working up , through frustration . |
| 4 | I 'd better have about three cos half the time they have n't bloody got them up there |
| 5 | More than just that shop where you go in you can go all round and wander round and you do n't see anybody only filling the shelves up and half the time they do n't even , ca n't even advise you where to go can they you know . |
| 6 | ‘ Half the time they do n't turn up , ’ Babur says . |
| 7 | Well that 's a , that 's a thing of that particular day , at that time th th and life erm and then they get what they call , they bought a steam hopper , so the steam hopper would say , could get to sea quicker in half the time the dumb hoppers could and so we were rotating all the time , there used to be one dumb hopper go to sea , one steam hopper and we 'd be loading the other dumb hopper and then th course the steam hopper would be back in half the time we 'd that and that 's how we rotate , day to day . |
| 8 | Half the time we carry on as if we did n't have a body : and we only think about our bodies if they trouble us — if we 're hungry or in pain . |
| 9 | ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . ) |
| 10 | You can no longer say , ‘ OK , but there will be a smart worker who will learn how to do that in half the time it takes now ’ . |
| 11 | The four system units will be organised around products — mainframe computers , mid-range , self-service terminal systems and application software , and is intended significantly to cut the time it takes for products to get to market — the aim is to cut in half the time it takes to develop products and bring them to the market . |
| 12 | That 's only half the time it took me last time . |
| 13 | The problem is , the problem is though , half the time you put into a situation , where , I , I , I was due er , a week 's holiday , and two weeks previous to that , I was actually changed contract so I was there on this new contract , and in a fortnight I was going to take a holiday , and sort of , well I ca n't stop you from taking your holiday , but you know , it 's , that sort of problem is n't it . |
| 14 | Not only ca n't you always get what you want , half the time you get what you do n't need either . |
| 15 | It ought to make you feel ashamed , Sebastian , to think half the time you do n't bother to make use of all the facilities that are offered to you — you just take it all for granted . |
| 16 | ‘ Half the time you have this little-girl-lost look — like when we walked into this bar tonight — and then suddenly you look all determined and hard . ’ |
| 17 | Cos every time I turn around yeah cos you two always sort of w looking at me and whispering and , you know , m half the time you have been talking about me cos I 've heard you mention my name and it 's not very nice . |
| 18 | Half the time I keep forgetting to switch it on ! |
| 19 | So half the time I felt like killing him , and I got agoraphobia , because I was so depressed . |
| 20 | Half the time I felt like a vicious little whore and the other half like the heroine of a nineteenth-century novel . |
| 21 | I mean half the time I think I do n't remember anything because er er , people are so busy blooming playing around and |
| 22 | Half the time I do n't even understand what they are fighting about . ’ |
| 23 | We should not just go through the Lobbies — half the time I do so without knowing for what I am voting . |
| 24 | he 'd go upstairs and Shirley would have put all the clean clothes back in the wardrobe and he 'd go in the wardrobe oh , no I wo n't wear that , no I wo n't wear that and half the time she found the cleanest clothes were all rolled up under the bed . |
| 25 | Although he produced valuable results at St Andrews , his major contributions did not come until later , as half the time he spent there coincided with the First World War , when the laboratories were turned over to the production of pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals . |
| 26 | He 'd tell me things there , and I 'd get so excited about whatever he said was going to happen , and half the time he 'd just made it up . ’ |
| 27 | Marshall is called Chief Accountant , but half the time he does n't really know what 's happening . |