Example sentences of "not half as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not half as rough as being dead , son . ’ |
| 2 | Not half as good either : All hail the mini disc ! |
| 3 | Not half as much as I am of you ! thought Henry , as he ran his eyes down the rest of the manuscript ( she must have written it before going to sleep ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Not half as much as I 'd like to — ’ the voice stopped . |
| 5 | Not half as much as we are . |
| 6 | ‘ Not half as much as Oliver Craddock . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Pah , nothing 's left from the previous existence — only the mere lees and dregs of thought , dreams of past time that the creature does not heed , or not half as much as the figments he has derived from Milton ! |
| 8 | Not half as much as that did ’ . |
| 9 | It 's not half as much as she charges in her shop . |
| 10 | ( not half as fancy as Gav 's listserver ) for FF traffic . |
| 11 | ‘ Not half as repressed as you are . |
| 12 | I said Not half as pleased as we are to see you . . |
| 13 | WE 'RE SORRY we ca n't return any of your Gallery pictures , but not half as sorry as we are for inflicting this smirking , high-voiced , tubby toff with less personality than a plasticine man on you . |
| 14 | 'e 's not half , 'e 's not half as dirty as 'im . |
| 15 | No , I 'm wrong … they 're twice as messy , and not half as durable . |
| 16 | Getting on well with Matt — obviously there 's going to be some competition once we start work but he 's not half as paranoid as I thought he 'd be , a bit back-slapping , still I guess that 's Yanks for you . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's not half as funny as Buster Keaton . ’ |
| 18 | She says they 're not half as horrible as they look ! |
| 19 | ‘ Not half as surprised as I was , ’ says Puttnam , laughing . |
| 20 | ‘ Not half as eager , Your Grace , as I have been to see you ! |
| 21 | A fact not half as weird as the movie itself — a dazzling tumble of possible coup and counter coup , intrigue , outrage and madness . |
| 22 | Jenny Pitman 's Do Be Brief stepped onto a racecourse for the first time in the first division of the Christmas Pudding Novice Hurdle and made quite an impression in beating Sailor 's Luck , but not half as big as his stable-companion Egypt Mill , who looked something special in landing the second division by 10 lengths . |
| 23 | The clean-cut TV and radio presenter announced he was delighted — but not half as happy as his mother . |
| 24 | The spice was n't half as nice as |
| 25 | ‘ All this modelling is n't half as glamorous as it 's made out to be . |
| 26 | Gloria said it was n't half as bad as the last place . |
| 27 | Well , the first thing to remember is that things are n't half as bad as you think , so do n't panic ! |
| 28 | Though of course I was n't half as attractive as Lesley … ’ |
| 29 | ‘ After a few days I was n't half as hungry and found it easier to cut down . |