Example sentences of "half [prep] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fire-ball of anger inside her had flared into life , and she had flown at him , screaming — what , she could hardly remember , except that more than half of it had been in Greek . |
| 2 | His reputation was such , however , that a photographer from the New York Times arrived and another member of the audience was so overwhelmed by the occasion that she described Eliot 's face as " that of an archangel who has too much work to do , and so does only half of it leaving the rest to the North Wind " . |
| 3 | The food — chicken , brochettes , couscous — comes on a plate and half of it stays there . |
| 4 | When I reached the turn I found half of it gone already . |
| 5 | The situation is that in the current year , we 're saying we have a distribution of a specific grant which is ring fenced , roughly half of it came to us using er , S S A factors , standard standing assessment factors , and roughly , something of the order of half of it , came to us on the basis of one or two snapshots of what the D S S was spending in Shropshire in terms of supporting people in residential care . |
| 6 | Half of it remains to be saved . |
| 7 | " Well , half of it does . " |
| 8 | And getting half of it chucked back because it 's not clean enough . |
| 9 | When you join the company there 's so many J S words , I mean you just , you just , I mean half of it goes over your head , I mean it 's get that go get that out of the buffer room . |
| 10 | What you do is you make one half of it finance the other . |
| 11 | He bit through the frond ; half of it fell onto the floor . |
| 12 | Man 's nature was two-sided , only half of it led to wrong-doing , the other half prohibited sin . |
| 13 | The sort of gesture that might , reasonably , allow a chap to knock over a bottle of wine and make sure at least half of it got all over Donald 's plate . |
| 14 | Baker said on Sept. 10 that $12,000 million was to be provided by Saudi Arabia , the UAE and the Kuwaiti government , half of it to defray the costs of foreign forces , and half to assist Egypt and Turkey [ see below , but also p. 37728 for Saudi measures against Jordan , the other state most seriously affected by the economic impact of the Gulf crisis ] . |
| 15 | They 're quite fun and I 've quite a lot of that up , and I 've got another board on , half of it 's and half of it sleep . |
| 16 | Yeah there 's half of it left . |
| 17 | The administration of his estate took 22s. 8d. of this , half of it going on fees , plus 2s. to the pardoner for letters of pardon and 5d. to the summoner . |
| 18 | Yes well er if it 's a joint account and the income 's i i if it 's a joint account and the income 's generated from that account , then er it will be er treated as one going to the taxpayer , er you know , half of it going to the taxpayer , half of it going to the non-taxpayer . |
| 19 | Yes well er if it 's a joint account and the income 's i i if it 's a joint account and the income 's generated from that account , then er it will be er treated as one going to the taxpayer , er you know , half of it going to the taxpayer , half of it going to the non-taxpayer . |
| 20 | Some £3 million , half of it provided by the European Community habitats committee , is to be spent to prevent the Redgrave and Lopham Fen , near Diss in Norfolk , from drying out . |
| 21 | For example can we continue burning fossil fuel and will half of it continue to be absorbed by the ocean or is the ocean reaching saturation such that these equilibrium terms are being reached and future increases in C O two will be reflected in atmospheric build up , and it 's only atmospheric C O two that contributes to the greenhouse effect . |
| 22 | it does when you do n't know where half of it 's gone |
| 23 | You just want a quick glance at it to see what she , oh well half of it 's saved and then a bit more than a quarter . |