Example sentences of "half [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Cut any large shallots in half down through the root .
2 The shift was in fact half over by the time I started and I was n't really able to do much of any value .
3 The short days were half over by the time I ventured from the hut ( where my motorbike was also preserved .
4 Well if you 'd have seen that I mean I and she sleeps in the airing cupboard she 's now started to get in there , but she 's half out on the landing .
5 He was admiring a stylish flower arrangement , observing how cunningly a spray of jasmine had been made to tremble half in , half out of the vase and trail against the console table , when the girl came back and told him Mr Vigo would see him now .
6 By swinging his legs he was at last able to make painful progress , so that eventually he was half in and half out of the building .
7 Clearing the gap in the reef , the patrol boat drove into a wave and leapt half out of the water like a giant grey killer whale .
8 I went down on hands and knees , half in and half out of the doorway , with an excuse ready of looking for a coin I 'd dropped .
9 Half in and half out of the window , Jack looked down at the scene below him in disappointment .
10 When Defries pulled herself over the projecting fragments of glass and into the cockpit , Daak was still half out of the pilot 's seat , staring at Ace 's back and her wind-whipped hair .
11 What they saw by the further light of a bicycle lamp was a chamber about six feet square and the opening of two pipes , half in and half out of the water-level on opposite walls .
12 I wo , I would like to go back to the days of my youth when we at Hogmanay there was usually frost and and and ice , and er we used to celebrate it partly on skates and it was great fun when you skated perhaps a mile and a half out of the town , and er er had a lovely ice festival and then we skated back and we had
13 The mouse jumped half out of the water and looked at her angrily .
14 He remained like that for a few seconds longer , while they tied his wrists to a pair of iron rings bolted into the wall , and then they let him go and left him dangling there — half in , half out of the river .
15 She saw it lying at her feet , half out of the opened envelope .
16 Okay so nine twelfths would be enough to make make a half out of the six twelfths .
17 Make a half we 'd make a half out of the six twelfths and then we 'd have three left over make a quarter so it 'd be a half add a quarter that 's what nine twelfths would come to .
18 Half in , half out of the water opposite me was a greyish mass .
19 " Lagoon " is a bit grand : it 's really just a big old swamp , surrounded by droopy trees with their roots half in and half out of the water .
20 Then , half in , half out of the car , he suddenly became very still .
21 Half in and half out of the cabin door , she watched the approach of three figures .
22 Jessica leaned half out of the window , waving at him frantically to be silent , her face contorted .
23 She adds ‘ Our children ( 20 and 18 ) are both at the stage of being half in and half out of the nest ! ’
24 Sarella , half in and half out of the jeep , had frozen suddenly as her eyes met those of her host .
25 He was half in and half out of the cloakroom , stripping off his ski-suit , jumping about on one leg with his other foot caught in the elasticated cuff .
26 Changing a magazine in mid-air was a major act of skill and daring , which involved climbing half out of the cockpit while flying the plane with one 's knees clamped on the joystick ; all the time with the enemy possibly circling for the kill .
27 The alarm was raised when the train stopped half in and half out of the station , and its driver radioed to say there was fighting on board .
28 At a nearby door , half in the house and half out of the house , they found the body of her boyfriend , Jamie Saunders , who was 22 and who lived at the house with his mother .
29 Bodie asked , as Doyle hesitated , half out into the road , looking back over his shoulder .
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