Example sentences of "[v-ing] half [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Altogether about 100 have been cast , using half a dozen basic formats , ranging in size from two to fifteen feet .
5 Using half the remaining marzipan ( 225g/8oz ) , model a long tail and attach it to the back of the body , smoothing over the join with your fingers .
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 The quarrel had started over something as petty as who could spit furthest after eating half a ginger biscuit .
8 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 .
9 I said my luxury when Martin was out was eating half a very large cream cake .
10 When I met Mike , he strolled into the office and apologised for bringing half a farm yard with him .
11 Sanctions can not possibly ‘ work ’ in the time he can allow for maintaining half a million men in combat readiness thousands of miles from home and for keeping his public opinion with him .
12 Anything , Richard thought , would be better than sawing half a man 's chest away .
13 ‘ I think it 's time we stopped poisoning half the land and concreting in the rest . ’
14 Between 1941 and 1947 , Rank 's companies were to be responsible for financing half the films made in Britain .
15 Bored with the formalities of mid-Victorian high society , often scornfully documented in her private diaries , she sought refuge in a form of neurasthenia and turned her hand to writing popular fiction , producing half a dozen still very readable novels which reflected her rebellious discontent with women 's role as second-class citizens in a world dominated by largely untalented men .
16 This is why you 're only seeing half the Winchess program .
17 There has been a feeling that they would compromise with Chelsea to the extent of accepting half the £22.85 million valuation .
18 It was this that had prevented me from resting half a day here or there , from starting late in the morning and from stopping early in the evening .
19 Stoke are still demanding half a million pounds with Celtic offering eighty-five thousand .
20 The latest , which has now been introduced on a voluntary basis , is that , instead of one of his A levels , a pupil may take two AS ( supplementary ) level examinations , demanding half the time each of a full A level .
21 Renamo was said to have proposed an army of 24,000 soldiers , with a further 1,000-strong air force and 800-strong navy , with each side contributing half the force .
22 This was all happening half a century ago , before the invention of the aqualung .
23 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 .
24 ‘ I can not believe you were here , in Roma , while I was employing half the detectives in New York to find you ! ’
25 Representing half a mile of coastline , its 72 paddles can produce waves and set up currents and tides for scientists to study .
26 During the 1970s for example , this proportion was around 19 per cent for manufacturing firms representing half the West German and about one third of UK or US levels .
27 I know you 're eliminating yeah and al and also eliminating half the brain cells in the room !
28 I saved myself by hurling half a brick into the darkness .
29 Branson could spend ten times as much money signing half a dozen acts and never achieve the same effect .
30 The cause for the closure … arsonists who early last Sunday week set fire to a pile of books in the main school building causing half a million pounds worth of damage .
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