Example sentences of "[pron] half [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time the hoof caught me half way up the shin bone , She had n't been able to get so much height into it but it was just as painful . |
| 2 | Th , they stick on me half way down . |
| 3 | This puts them half way between a drug and a health food . |
| 4 | There 's this old girl at er the top of the road you know , got them , she planted them half way down her garden , right , when they 'd grown to about six foot high she said we could have the rest of their garden , so we did , that 's how come our garden 's so big cos people give our , give us the garden |
| 5 | The negative effect of such discrimination is illustrated by the practice in adult education establishments which treat pensioners as ‘ half persons ’ ; colleges charge them half price for attending courses , but then insist that a class must have twice as many registrations as required for younger students , before it can go ahead . |
| 6 | At one time , the Club went as far as refusing to allow juveniles a reduced entrance price for the London Road terrace but allowed them half price for other areas . |
| 7 | Ann Petty , Carlisle Grove , Bishop Auckland : It was my half day off when myself and a friend usually went into Newcastle to the pictures , but because of public mourning they were all closed . |
| 8 | It 's my half day on the , that Sunday . |
| 9 | The performances are recordings and uniformly excellent , and the music certainly did n't deserve its half century of neglect , So one hopes that Harmonia Mundi will give us more Zeisl : there are Sonatas for violin , viola and cello , a goodly quantity of songs , and a fair amount of orchestral music , as well as two operas and three ballets . |
| 10 | As a result of the loss of its franchise to broadcast from 31 December 1992 , the independent television contractor has changed the basis of accounting in its half year results to 30 June 1992 from a going concern to a closure basis . |
| 11 | MTM ( speciality chemicals ) has had its half year statement to 30 June 1992 audited by Price Waterhouse . |
| 12 | Bowthorpe ( the electronic components and electrical equipment group ) includes in its half year statement to 30 June 1992 a report from auditors Ernst & Young . |
| 13 | The food retailer unveiled its half year results last Wednesday . |
| 14 | Its half year loss emerges at £51m and the figure could easily top £250m by the year-end . |
| 15 | British Gas has fired up its half year dividend to 6.4p per share compared with 6p last time . |
| 16 | In the mean time , the company says it will continue to invest in product development — research costs amounted to 8% of its half year turnover — and is looking to branch out into what it calls new ‘ product identification ’ technologies . |
| 17 | An inordinately well-planned effort , it packs a considerable amount of information into its half hour . |
| 18 | Toby imagined Penny as a girl of infinitely greater experience and sophistication than himself , though , in looking back on her four years at Bedford College and her half year of unemployment thereafter , Penny could only be struck by the slim amount of worldly knowledge gained , the fleeting , unsatisfactory nature of the relationships formed . |
| 19 | For the one version , the Reformation is the catastrophe by which half Christendom defects from the church , the church itself remaining intact and faithful to Peter . |
| 20 | The team was put through a daily fitness programme , starting with a 40 minute run before breakfast and finishing at the nearby police gym where they took in circuit and weight training before going on another one-and-a half mile run . |
| 21 | they wanted me for the whole day of Friday but I said I 'm sorry I can only do you half day if you 're interested , they were , they were desperate . |
| 22 | I come out to meet you half way . |
| 23 | turns round to you half way through the job and says by the way you must do this . |
| 24 | She probably has one half day free per week , and then she will have to visit her parents , no doubt . |
| 25 | Every year on her annual holidays , Patsy paid a dutiful visit of one half day to the orphanage which had reared her , and then she went to stay with a friend who had married in Dublin . |
| 26 | A package of booklets for recording asthma attacks linked to a distance learning programme ( accredited for one half day disease management of postgraduate educational allowance ) was developed and piloted . |
| 27 | From the beginning of the course and throughout the three years , students spend one half day per week in schools ( a different school each term ) where they work with small groups of children under the guidance of teachers and tutors . |
| 28 | Then there 's one half way up up the Cambridge Road ai n't there ? |
| 29 | Fix around the rocket with royal icing : one at the base , one half way up the main part of the body , and one at the very top . |
| 30 | 210 In all cases between landlord and tenant , as often as it shall happen that one half year 's rent shall be in arrear , and the landlord or lessor , to whom the same is due , hath right by law to re-enter for the non-payment thereof , such landlord or lessor shall and may , without any formal demand or re-entry , serve a writ in ejectment for the recovery of the demised premises , which service shall stand in the place and stead of a demand and re-entry ; and in case of judgment against the defendant for non-appearance , if it shall be made appear to the court where the said action is depending , by affidavit , or be proved upon the trial in case the defendant appears , that half a year 's rent was due before the said writ was served , and that no sufficient distress was to be found on the demised premises , countervailing the arrears then due , and that the lessor had power to re-enter , then and in every such case the lessor shall recover judgment and execution , in the same manner as if the rent in arrear had been legally demanded , and a re-entry made ; and in case the lessee or his assignee , or other person claiming or deriving under the said lease , shall permit and suffer judgment to be had and recovered on such trial in ejectment , and execution to be executed thereon , without paying the rent and arrears , together with full costs , and without proceeding for relief in equity within six months after such execution executed , then and in such case the said lessee , his assignee , and all other persons claiming and deriving under the said lease , shall be barred and foreclosed from all relief or remedy in law or equity , other than by bringing error for reversal of such judgment , in case the same shall be erroneous , and the said landlord or lessor shall from thenceforth hold the said demised premises discharged from such lease ; provided that nothing herein contained shall extend to bar the right of any mortgagee of such lease , or any part thereof , who shall not be in possession , so as such mortgagee shall and do , within six months after such judgment obtained and execution executed pay all rent in arrear , and all costs and damages sustained by such lessor or person entitled to the remainder or reversion as aforesaid , and perform all the covenants and agreements which , on the part and behalf of the first lessee , are and ought to be performed . |