Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | She blinked at Shiona and half sat up on the bed . |
| 2 | So the Collector and Hookum Singh and half a dozen others prepared themselves to defend the drawing-room door , if necessary with bayonets as well as firearms . |
| 3 | Racing commences at 11am on Friday and half an hour earlier on the Saturday . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ They received their first proper wage slips on Saturday and half the players were not pleased . |
| 5 | The youth committee include about half from Pinewood Village and half from the rest of Bordon . |
| 6 | On one side of the courtroom was Darryl Zanuck and half the corporation boys in America . |
| 7 | It stood at stud at Craigie and half of its earnings were paid to William Dunlop , the sleeping partner . |
| 8 | ( 4368 in number in January 1988 , roughly half Church of England and half Roman Catholic ) provide their own premises and meet some of the maintenance costs in exchange for a degree of control . |
| 9 | When Beverley , who had written the hits Boeing Boeing and Half A Sixpence , suggested that what Ken really needed was a good holiday , the two of them took off together for Greece . |
| 10 | He had laid by his sword , but he had a dagger still upon him , and managed to draw it and slash through the folds that smothered him ; and Norbury and Erpyngham and half a dozen others of his own people came plunging and splashing through the storm to help him out of these ominous grave-clothes . |
| 11 | Earlier 1992 sales of peripheral assets included Ultramar Oil and Gas — completing LASMO 's withdrawal from the US , the Australian interests of Ultramar and half of LASMO 's 55 per cent share holding in LASMO Canada Inc [ now renamed Elan energy ] . |
| 12 | ‘ Shout down any coal pit in Yorkshire and half a dozen fast bowlers will come up ’ was an adage born out of the 30s depression when cricket was one of an extremely limited range of alternatives to a miserable , lowly paid struggle in coal mining . |
| 13 | The meeting will take place at St Michael 's first school in Marston Road and half past seven this evening . |
| 14 | Three days ago I was in Darrowby and half of me was still back there , back with Helen . |
| 15 | McFarlane was then no longer in government ; he travelled to Iran on Reagan 's orders , accompanied by North , Amiram Nir of Israel and half a pallet of missile parts that he hoped to exchange for hostages . |
| 16 | The next morning , an early start , window shopping in the streets of Paris and half of an hour with our heads buried in the Michelin and Gault Millau guides while taking in the air and the haute couture from the vantage point of our pavement cafe . |
| 17 | In 1808 Beresford and half the force returned to Lisbon . |
| 18 | Let him but get to Chimera or Gonim or Ecalpon and half a dozen armies could n't bring him back . |
| 19 | Caroline found herself reminded , involuntarily , of those ancient Phoenician explorers who 'd colonised Malta and half the Mediterranean besides , from their Lebanese homelands thousands of years before . |
| 20 | Ockleton , Morpurgo , Cornelius , Dysart and half a dozen others too drunk to mention . |
| 21 | Just over 18 per cent of the Tiger Index Fund will follow each of the DTI approved markets such as Hong Kong , Singapore and Malaysia and half this percentage will go into others . |
| 22 | In those days there was a small core of paid research staff who were responsible for a large number of countries — if you did the Soviet Union , you were also responsible for Eastern Europe and half of Western Europe as well ! ’ |
| 23 | That , plus £250m of property writedowns — half in Britain and half in the United States — and another £100m of provisions account for the £450m fall in Heron 's value . |
| 24 | History now relates how that race proved one too many for Dessie and half a mile too far for Remittance Man , but to The Fellow fell the spoils of victory and the crown of Europe 's champion chaser . |
| 25 | There are currently 79,000 children and young people being cared for by the local authorities in the U.K. and half of them are looking for foster homes . |
| 26 | My first book , When Sixpence Was A Fortune , has reached many corners of the world — a lady told me her sister read some of the poems to an audience of exiled Scots in New Zealand and half the folk there ‘ wiz greetin' ’ ! |
| 27 | He 'd heard stories about him in Calcutta and half expected something of the sort . |
| 28 | At the same time the press had been tipped off that the Health Minister was leaving the country on holiday from Heathrow and half a dozen photographers had literally chased on to the runway to photograph him . |
| 29 | MOST voters expect a hung Parliament after Thursday but half are unhappy about the idea , according to Gallup 's final pre-election survey for The Sunday Telegraph . |
| 30 | Radcliffe and half his friends have ! ’ |