Example sentences of "half [prep] them [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | Coach Dick Best ruefully remarked : ‘ I guess if they 'd been Gloucester boys half of them might have turned out ’ . |
2 | They were told also that half of them would face redundancy . |
3 | Half of them would gain at least £10 a week and another quarter at least £20 a week . |
4 | MdBs generally stand high in public esteem — higher than our own MPs — and half of them will have entered the Bundestag by way of party lists . |
5 | Not one of them , he said , was able to read the Bible correctly , but all could dance a quadrille , sing , and half of them could waltz . |