Example sentences of "of half [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remembering how often she had bought skin care products and abandoned them she thought of the collection of half used jars and tubes in her dressing table drawer and came up this headline : " Our creams and lotions are all used up " with the striking visual of a tube squeezed to the last drop . |
| 2 | Pour over it a liquid made of half dry white wine and half water . |
| 3 | And er we can get by on lots of things and when an emergency does come , sometimes we can cope with it if it 's not too big a one , but other times it can catch up with us , simply because we are only sort of half awake so the purpose of the talk today is to try and help us all to see various ways in which we can stay awake in the truth physic er , er spiritually speaking . |
| 4 | Er do you want to go back and work for them , is that the m the main thing so you 've got your job back , cos if you claim compensation th the basic award is equivalent to redundancy which it sound as though they may well pay about of half that to you . |
| 5 | So you work till five instead of half four and then he knocks off . |
| 6 | Well with it being sort of half warm and |
| 7 | Sir , — That heroic huntin' person ‘ name and address supplied ’ tells us the tearing to pieces of foxes by packs of half starved dogs accompanied by hordes of fancy dress killers on horseback is legal , efficient and beneficial to the fox ! |
| 8 | I was late once , got there at ten instead of half past and was put on a discipline charge by the superintendent . |
| 9 | His mother , his father 's senior wife , was living in a village , Nkrohl , near the little town of Half Assini almost on the border of the French Ivory coast : it was there that his father , a goldsmith , practised his trade . |
| 10 | She was sort of half apologetic |