Example sentences of "[verb] half a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But more often they took the little leafy lane which led from Thrush Green to Upper Pleshy , Nod and Nidden , the lane that threaded half a dozen or more sleepy thatched villages , like hoary old beads upon its winding string , before it emerged upon the broad highway which led to Stratford-upon-Avon . |
| 2 | ‘ I said some time ago that there was a mile to go and we had to go half a mile each , and the Community went more than its half a mile . |
| 3 | One set of interviews , with the literary editors of national newspapers , was carried out using half a dozen ‘ topic headings ’ simply to ensure that at each interview I covered the ground I had decided beforehand was important for my purpose . |
| 4 | Now , if everyone had an average-sized lawn which they cut weekly for eight months using half a litre of petrol at each session , they would still burn less than 4 gallons a year . |
| 5 | At certain times of the month and whatever , I could be using half a gram a day and towards the end of the month whatever money I had left went on It . |
| 6 | Altogether about 100 have been cast , using half a dozen basic formats , ranging in size from two to fifteen feet . |
| 7 | this man managing , almost single-handed , a country as large as Scotland ; when one sees that man , living in a leaky mud hut , holding , by the sway of his personality , the balance even between fiercely antagonistic races , in a land which would cover half a dozen of the large English counties ; when one sees the marvels accomplished by tact , passionate interest and self-control , with utterly inadequate means , in continuous personal discomfort , short-handed , on poor pay , out here in Northern Nigeria — then one feels that permanent evil can not ultimately evolve from so much admirable work accomplished , and that the end must be good . |
| 8 | And if she got half a pig 's head she used to cut the pig 's head in half and used to use the top half , and that was where the ears was , and everything , boil it until all all the meat dropped off and then she used to put in er a big basin , scrumple it up in her fingers , put some of the juice in , and put a seven pound weight on it , and a saucer , and make brawn . |
| 9 | So I said I went and lay in the in these bull rushes and I got half a brick , yes , he says , and I saw them coming and he says and I threw it and hit him this er blackleg with this half brick . |
| 10 | The second attempt was much shorter and hit off , I thought , the right balance between regretful practicality and yet sufficient affection and desire for her still to want to climb into bed if I got half a chance . |
| 11 | After lunch he took her to the shops in the wide , tree-lined avenues , and though from time to time she was out of his sight she had no doubt whatever that he still thought she would rush off to telegraph news to her magazine if she got half a chance . |
| 12 | I got half a dozen drunks and three women dressed as Mother Christmas and put them on a truck and we drove round the West End on the busiest shopping day of the year playing loud jazz and bunging up the traffic . |
| 13 | Any ten you got half a doz . |
| 14 | Ah well we had , you had we had that , that bloke Americans , so we got half a point . |
| 15 | There was a token minority of conservationists and poor Eric Langmuir , having to wear half a dozen recreational hats . |
| 16 | The quarrel had started over something as petty as who could spit furthest after eating half a ginger biscuit . |
| 17 | This , as any British climbers knows , involved quaffing gallons of warm beer the night before , eating half a pig and the produce of a hen house the next morning , then spraying the countryside with this heady mixture while approaching the crag . |
| 18 | I said my luxury when Martin was out was eating half a very large cream cake . |
| 19 | Being a lazy lad , much given to the idea of rising late when given half a chance , he had delayed his arrival in the world until 1 January . |
| 20 | Like many people , I am in favour of public transport in principle , but I will use a car , even on a holiday weekend like this , given half a chance . |
| 21 | That 's nothing on how good they could be , given half a chance . |
| 22 | It possesses a large number of small but very sharp teeth and can inflict a painful bite if given half a chance . |
| 23 | If there is no wool available to them , cats with an urge to re-create the pleasures of sucking at the maternal nipple have been known to suck their own fur , sometimes their feet and sometimes the tips of their tails ; or they occasionally develop a fixation on their owner 's hair and make repeated attempts to suck on that , if they are given half a chance . |
| 24 | Five of those released on Christmas Eve 1772 had been gaoled for each owing 12s 8d , and were given half a crown ( 2s 6d ) on discharge . |
| 25 | Many teenagers today would live in their trainers , given half a chance , but try to discourage this . |
| 26 | Many of think he would do it if he was given half a chance . |
| 27 | He would doubtless suffer this blow to his esteem in a First Folio or a 1532 Chaucer , given half a chance , but in lesser books the wound is too serious . |
| 28 | Given half a chance they would ‘ retrobolt ’ ( what curious technical names they give to hearsay these days ) everything we hold dear . |
| 29 | What we would demand given half a chance : Electro-shock treatment for anyone with home-made tattoos . |
| 30 | Unlike the others , the goat is a ruminant , and will eat almost anything given half a chance . |