Example sentences of "be [v-ing] half the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Membership of the Party increased dramatically to , to two million people and then the masses under leadership again saying there was , they 're , they 're looking at about ten million , and they 're saying half the peasants in the are organized , that these are , are people who are , who , who are at the forefront of the , of the movement , involvement is , is very high . |
| 2 | and what women are experiencing half the time is perfectly rational . |
| 3 | He was dead to the world , so deeply asleep that she wondered what on earth he could have been doing half the night . |
| 4 | Because it 's been that long keeping an eye on them that they could be supplying half the business on our time with and then a hundred per cent the rest of the time . |
| 5 | A lot of them were slow , and did n't know what they were doing half the time : they 'd give you the wrong medicine . |
| 6 | She does n't know what she 's doing half the time ! |
| 7 | ‘ I can not believe you were here , in Roma , while I was employing half the detectives in New York to find you ! ’ |
| 8 | I realised I was missing half the jokes , so I mugged up from a textbook — and here I am , ready for more ! ’ |