Example sentences of "[v-ing] half an " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She was still trembling half an hour later , as she huddled beneath a small gateway , trying to keep her footing on the wet grass of the embankment . |
| 4 | The experiment involves injecting 2-DG into methylanthranilate-trained and control chicks , waiting half an hour or so for the 2-DG6P to accumulate , killing the chicks , removing and freezing their brains , and subsequently counting the radioactivity present . |
| 5 | I 've been waiting half an hour . |
| 6 | Like , if he takes you to some crap trattoria , he 's only expecting half an hour of the missionary position . |
| 7 | ‘ Coping with Anxiety ’ helps anxiety sufferers to understand their condition and explains how they can get relief from their day to day worries with techniques which include allocating half an hour a day ‘ worry-time ’ and by using a combination of relaxation , breathing exercises and management of thoughts and actions . |
| 8 | has got nothing to do with it but she 's working an extra two and a half hours a week and getting half an hour off , you know I mean you , in all |
| 9 | After a course of one-on-one lessons ( lasting half an hour each ) , practising the technique is essentially self-help with top-up lessons every so often . |
| 10 | I was very lucky ; Clarence House has a reputation for giving half an hour and then that 's it . |
| 11 | D' you think there 's anything further in me considering my ideas of them having half an hour not working session a week ? |
| 12 | How about me having half an hour with you my friend , and tell me how you do it . |
| 13 | She was the maid at Drew 's Maidstone lodgings , who had witnessed the actor spending half an hour in the garden of the premises trying desperately to clean a navy blue jacket . |
| 14 | The scene closed with judge and prisoner bowing solemnly to one another , and the latter , after spending half an hour discoursing with his supporters in the courtroom , being led off to prison wreathed in smiles . |
| 15 | It was a sentence spending half an hour in that place — I did n't know how Bob would cope with three years . |
| 16 | Niki 's phlegm about the whole incident can be summed up in what must be the driver 's quote of the decade : ‘ There is no point in having a complex about losing half an ear . ’ |
| 17 | In France , honour is satisfied by a low-level court case taking half an hour . |
| 18 | Taking half an hour Birmingham-Kidderminster is fine when all goes smoothly . |
| 19 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ And why do they start queuing half an hour before the post office opens ? ’ asked Pooley . |