Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Debate on the Church went on through half the time available for discussion in the entire session , and revisions still had to be brought back for approval . |
| 2 | Cameron raked on for half an hour , making loose heaps up the middle of the field . |
| 3 | After entering the wood keep straight on for half a mile . |
| 4 | Although one character does get to chunter on for half a page about how the real point of fund-raising is its feelgood side effects ( get-away ! ) , there is really no satirical content here at all : the real point of the book is that it features loads and loads of cartoon rumpy-pumpy : randy housewives and naughty underwear , haystacks and giant inflatable condoms , improbable sexual positions and unlikely transvestites . |
| 5 | By 1939 4 million manual workers and another 4 million or so non-manual workers were receiving annual holiday pay , going on for half of the total occupied population . |
| 6 | The thing went on for half an hour at least . |
| 7 | ‘ You just keep on for half a mile or so and 't is up on your left . |
| 8 | There seemed nothing I could usefully add to whatever Henniker might be doing , and as it was getting on for half past twelve I decided to find a pub and a sandwich . |
| 9 | If the Government want to fetch every one of those issues to the Floor of the House , I am quite prepared to do exactly the same , and every day we shall have points of order that go on for half an hour — |
| 10 | The conversation carried on for half an hour and then they parted company as she went to work and he went off to his job . |
| 11 | It 's alright for ha put it on for half hour maybe , you know , but you forget it |
| 12 | Olwen has hers on for half an hour of a morning , Joe puts it on at half eight and dead on nine o'clock that immersion 's turned off . |
| 13 | But you 've got ta have it on for half an hour have n't we Scott ? |
| 14 | The Golden Girls on for half an hour . |
| 15 | If I can put it in , not , I hope , in a boastful way , but to illustrate how important this is to us , about forty per cent , getting on for half of the income of the Education Area last year , was made up not of normal University funds , but of funds attracted from outside to support research from private foundations and from government departments like the Department of Education and Science . |
| 16 | Gentlemen , it occurs to us that you 're going , we 're going to be waffling on for half an hour plus , in a sense . |
| 17 | There were three strikers on after half time ( and none of them scored ! ) |
| 18 | It may go on after half term because she may not be able to come down on those two days , if that happens then I 'll have other back up material for them |
| 19 | It was a quiet time and I would sit these fellows down for half an hour and take them through what they were doing . |
| 20 | Sit down for half an hour and anybody can do it . |
| 21 | Sit down for half an hour and anybody can do it . |
| 22 | I 'm not , I 've been sitting down for half an hour . |
| 23 | Why do n't you go and lie down for half an hour ? |
| 24 | I know what I need , to put my head down for half an hour this afternoon I wo n't be fit for nothing the night . |
| 25 | ‘ There are least three shops in Norwich I really like , and I tend to ring them in advance and say ‘ I 'm coming in for half an hour . |
| 26 | There was a mini-rebellion about that just after the Police Strike and then they allowed policemen to go in for half an hour 's and eat breakfast . |
| 27 | About half in between half past five and quarter to six . |
| 28 | Getting in after half past three to get up again at six o'clock is no fun . |
| 29 | and you lot , and stroll in after half past four an five o'clock in the morning , you know , you do . |
| 30 | The Brighton Constabulary , whose marksmen had taken up positions from which they could command the Grand Hotel , was stood down after half an hour . |