Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [prep] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | He scored the only goal of the game and immediately endeared himself to half the city 's fans . |
| 2 | You must assail it with Bassey from one side and Streisand from the other , whereupon the hapless bird rips itself in half , uncertain which escape route to take . |
| 3 | The Emperor emerged from the cathedral itself at half past seven , escorted by the Abuna , the Patriarch of Alexandria and the Etchege , the senior monk of the realm who ranked second to the Abuna in the hierarchy of the Ethiopian Church . |
| 4 | She bounced and cuddled herself into half a dozen bright scatter cushions . |
| 5 | A WIFE who got tired of life with a drunken husband cut herself in half with a circular saw . |
| 6 | Julia answered civilly and resigned herself to half an hour 's polite conversation . |
| 7 | THE NEED FOR the majority of county cricketers to cobble together alternative employment for themselves for half the year has long been seen as a compromise on the professionalism of the game . |
| 8 | Accordingly when a pare of men went underground formerly , they made it a rule , to sleep out a candle , before they set about their work ; that is if their place of work was dry , they would lay themselves down and sleep , as long as a whole candle would continue burning ; and then rise up and work for two or three hours pretty briskly ; after that have a touch pipe , that is rest themselves for half an hour to smoke a pipe of tobacco , and so play and sleep away half their working time : but mining being more expensive than it formerly was , those idle customs are superseded by more labour and industry . |
| 9 | Begin by watching yourself for half an hour each day as if you are a stranger . |
| 10 | That to be honest is , is somebody who 's like , been doing this for ten years and has already got themselves like half a million pounds of worth of equity . |
| 11 | The people taking part commit themselves to half an hour of scripture based prayer each day and a half hour meeting with a ‘ Prayer Guide ’ each evening when they receive personal guidance . |
| 12 | The main advantage is that they do not intrude on floor space in the same way as a normal hinged door — they simply fold back on themselves to half width . |
| 13 | You restrict yourself to half a dozen goals in each case . |
| 14 | Climbing over them , I nearly cut mesen in half . |