Example sentences of "have been [verb] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | They reckoned then that anything in the river would have been sent half way across to Norway so that put paid to that search . |
| 2 | He was dead to the world , so deeply asleep that she wondered what on earth he could have been doing half the night . |
| 3 | The arch of Porta Romana ai Bastioni , to give it its full title , was built in 1598 to commemorate Margherita of Austria leaving the city on her way to marry Philip III of Spain , although the ramparts into which it was fitted had been erected half a century before . |
| 4 | If the control knobs had been placed half an inch or so higher then the selector could be placed below them , thus bringing it nearer to the player 's right hand . |
| 5 | All five hundred coolies from Number Three Village were drawn up outside their barracks in long ranks ; silent and apprehensive , they were wondering why they had been roused half an hour earlier and why the burly , intimidating figure of the plantation director , Duclos , was waiting to address the massed roll call beneath the single lightpole in the barrack compound . |
| 6 | We were in a small courtyard into which had been crammed half a dozen hutches and garden-shed-type constructions . |
| 7 | She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time . |
| 8 | But he had been woken half an hour earlier . |
| 9 | I 've been going half crazy with worry wondering what on earth had happened to you . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been waiting half an hour . |