Example sentences of "[verb] half an " in BNC.
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| 1 | but it 's not though , it 's not , it 's her fault for being so bloody stupid and not telling us A , what we 're supposed to be doing and B , the fact that I was not having any lunch to go half an hour , what do you mean ? |
| 2 | and we still have to wait half an hour ! |
| 3 | You got half an hour plus ten minutes relief for your refreshments and that would happen at ten in the morning and you 'd been there since seven . |
| 4 | you know there 's not nobody got half an hour to wait . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm still cold , ’ she whispered half an hour later . |
| 6 | G. is pleased with the response at the company — not only do they report as soon as possible when they 've got a pollution , they let him know about the progress they make : ‘ I 've got them so well trained now they 'll be phoning half an hour before they have a discharge . ’ |
| 7 | He is very busy , and can only spare half an hour . |
| 8 | That 's because we did n't want half an hour and he wanted half an a hour . |
| 9 | If the control knobs had been placed half an inch or so higher then the selector could be placed below them , thus bringing it nearer to the player 's right hand . |
| 10 | Then her mother would graciously conduct half an hour of polite conversation with all these people , who Jo knew were otherwise pretty cool and mostly also pretty sane , and they would all pretend to be interested in whatever dumb thing she said , and laugh if she made any of her awful little jokes and store away any personal information she disclosed so that they could tell it to their friends the next day and make it absolutely clear that they were on intimate terms with a really big star . |
| 11 | He found another Brahmin cultivating half an acre of land which Ragu had laid claim to and beat the man up with a stick , causing arm fracture , hospitalization and a court case . |
| 12 | They could n't even wait half an hour . |
| 13 | In Japan there were more than 40,000 kids there but they were so far away she must have physically looked half an inch high . |
| 14 | When we look at a house in the distance and we see a small house — say half an inch high — surrounded by trees two inches high , we are not fooled into perceiving them as small . |
| 15 | Check the section on Reading effectively , and also remember the idea of having a debate on a chosen topic for say half an hour once a week so that you can use your voice and express your ideas and opinions . |
| 16 | Anyone who was born at the Elsie Inglis Hospital can take part and the story will depend on the participants but it will include half an hour of songs from the other two shows . |
| 17 | He has half an eye on where the gun went . |
| 18 | He no longer writes in the evenings but still has half an acre of land and now has four beautiful little children . |
| 19 | Jopling senior , who farms near Northallerton , has half an eye on becoming Father of the House a title likely to pass to Edward Heath ( debut 1950 ) next time . |
| 20 | But remember you promised half an hour . ’ |
| 21 | It would be nice , for example , to do all your own minor operations … remove cysts , do stitching and all these sorts of , eh well , do a complete work-out for somebody with say cardiovascular problems — but this needs half an hour at least … . |
| 22 | She phoned half an hour ago to say they were on their way . ’ |
| 23 | Came half an hour ago . ’ |
| 24 | And it was one of those such nights that at half past seven I 'd just got most of the fires set and ready to er er just on and going and I 'd half an hour to get everything straightened and ready for eight o'clock opening , and the door at the back went , which was where the office used to be . |
| 25 | Maybe we 'd only do half an hour before sloping off but , bit by bit , we were able to put a set together . |
| 26 | I will do half an hour clarinet practice each day . |
| 27 | Have you done all your homework , you can go and do half an hour 's homework quite usefully could n't you ? |
| 28 | in fact I 'll go up and do half an hour before dinner |
| 29 | His spirits lifted only to be dashed half an hour later when the hoarseness reappeared . |
| 30 | Fishing starts at 9 am each day and last casts are made half an hour after sunset . |