Example sentences of "[pers pn] for half " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 'd have gone there last year but for the shin splints ’ she added , before a note of irritation and frustration became evident as she went on to say ‘ This question haunted me for half of last year .
2 Then he said I was too innocent to realise how hard it was for him just to see me for half an hour and a kiss and cuddle . ’
3 ‘ Try them for half speed , ’ Delaney shouted in desperation .
4 I talked to them for half an hour on maximum range and fuel economy .
5 Sister Monica stayed with them for half an hour .
6 He had known most of them for half a lifetime .
7 " To a pint of cream put a pound of double-refined sugar , the juice of seven lemons , grate the rinds of two lemons into a pint of white wine , add half a pint of sack , then put them all into a deep pot , and whisk them for half an hour , put it into glasses the night before you want it : it is better for standing two or three days , but it will keep a week if required . "
8 and that means that I can photocopy them for half the price .
9 It was like , get on to those bloody phone people , he said , I was on the phone to them for half an hour , yesterday , he said have n't turned up , he said , and I organized m I work around and everything .
10 Well anyway I for half past three yesterday
11 I took another deep breath — I only wanted to see him for half an hour — and said what I could .
12 Others could not get to him for half an hour .
13 I only saw him for half an hour .
14 ‘ We 've been trying to wake him for half an hour , ’ said Fritz .
15 She had been watching him for half an hour staring out at the view , motionless .
16 He wondered how much it would cost to buy her for half an hour .
17 You made a date with her for half seven the following evening and she was thrilled .
18 But actually I had her for half an hour to the commands and everything .
19 Two men then ransacked her house while another stood guard over her for half an hour .
20 It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour .
21 We ran it for half a century and left behind a road network , ginger beer and a cricket green in the capital , Corfu Town .
22 A neighbour who heard the bell , a sound she had never heard in all her fifteen years in the street , puzzled over it for half an hour and then went across the road to the school .
23 sort of read through a bit about it and then when you 've read it , put the book away and leave it for half an hour or an hour or something and then try and draw a rough outline of some of the main points .
24 In March we marked John 's seven hundredth day by erecting a cell-like cage in Covent Garden and persuading as many famous people as possible to come and stand in it for half an hour while the press filmed them .
25 The children play with it for half an hour , then run outside with their new toboggan instead .
26 What we 're saying is we 're giving you it for half price .
27 Alright well I think well I think actually well I know we 've droned on about it for half an hour but I think it 's worth a discussion to be quite honest , do n't you ?
28 they leave it for half an hour .
29 Anybody interested in going to the theatre from tonight onwards a member of the G M B if they 've produced a ticket , you 'll get it for half price at the King 's Theatre .
30 And one , if you ever wanted to do a bit of homework , to actually really get into the mood for something like this , you want to take a , a single piece , a single little newsy thing , and just practise , try and write it for half a dozen different outlets .
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