Example sentences of "[prep] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nathan cheered up a touch when he had eaten his way through half the menu , and was even able to smile at the prospect of spending the night in our corridor-like room . |
| 2 | The call from Scotland Yard came through half an hour after Wexford got back to the station . |
| 3 | Briefly I held its glow through half shut eyes , felt its warmth concentrate on my upturned face . |
| 4 | This is done by setting the model on a flat surface , measuring the height of one blade tip , then rotating the rotor head through half a turn and measuring the height of the other blade . |
| 5 | For this reason , it is best to practise a pan before you shoot , starting with the body pre-swung through half of the movement in the opposite direction — rather like winding up a spring . |
| 6 | This offence can be considered where a hole appears in the side of the silencer etc. , as some doubt exists whether the gases have passed ‘ through ’ the silencer etc. , if they have passed through half of the silencer , Until there is judicial assistance to say that such gases must pass all the way through a silencer to escape liability under regulation 54(1) , a regulation 54(2) offence may be the safest offence . |
| 7 | But I can still only see through half my eye . |
| 8 | When Bruce Bogtrotter had eaten his way through half of the entire enormous cake , he paused for just a couple of seconds and took several deep breaths . |
| 9 | By now we had crossed through half a dozen vegetation zones — the botanical equivalent of a journey from Canada to New Mexico . |
| 10 | Debate on the Church went on through half the time available for discussion in the entire session , and revisions still had to be brought back for approval . |
| 11 | You had to search through half the estate to gather a pound of coffee for 2 colones . |
| 12 | The gel was run at room temperature at 13 V/cm until the dye had migrated through half of the gel ( ∼2 hr ) . |
| 13 | We could n't get through half an hour of this without the necessary conditions , humanly . |
| 14 | Alina had sniffled her way through half a box of Kleenex from the glove compartment , and she seemed even more disinclined toward conversation than Pete . |
| 15 | He thus pioneered in this country the discursive , witty , exuberant , and surrealist style of humour he bequeathed to his close friend J. B. Morton [ q.v. ] , who took the column over in 1924 and developed it through half a century into an art form . |
| 16 | Living by himself , he had stopped taking milk : he never got through half a bottle before it went sour , since he drank coffee black and seldom ate cereals . |
| 17 | Dispensing with the paths that snaked through half a dozen different garden realms , she brushed through the shrubbery , feeling a little wild in the wake of her primitive gesture . |
| 18 | So if you 're looking for something , bit of a pain having to wade through half a dozen pages , if you can go to the index and then jump directly to the relevant page , and then save you a bit of time . |
| 19 | Charles smoked his way through half a packet of Gauloises while John told his story . |
| 20 | ‘ But before my brain got into gear after finding you 'd cleared the wardrobe in the lobby of your belongings and I realised you 'd gone , I went through half a dozen possibilities before I rang Reception . ’ |
| 21 | I 've been ringing him since that come through half an hour ago . |
| 22 | I got through half the book . |
| 23 | Labour 's spokeswoman on the economy , Margaret Beckett , says the Chancellor has n't stolen her Party 's cloak , and says that if the government had taken her Party 's advice a year ago , the economy would n't have gone through half the pain it has . |
| 24 | I sat for half an hour outside the dining room like a pickle in a jam factory . |
| 25 | He lay there dead , his blood soaking my shoulder for half an hour . |
| 26 | Cameron raked on for half an hour , making loose heaps up the middle of the field . |
| 27 | The Clapham accident of December 1988 , the first for half a century in Britain due to the failure of the signalling , appalled the public in demonstrating how poor morale and discipline were in a vital part of the service at a key point . |
| 28 | Rather than risk a clash between the Cha and Legislative Council models , China has opted to muddy the waters by indicating support for proposals unexpectedly advanced last month by Lo Tak-shing , of the New Hong Kong Alliance , for a ‘ bicameral ’ legislature , in which directly elected seats would account for half of a single house . |
| 29 | For half an hour or so she had Barbara Paulus , ranked 21st to Durie 's 102nd , chasing shadows as she won the first set 6-2 . |
| 30 | Hi-Tec hopes North America , which lifted sales and profits by 20 per cent , and Europe will account for half of group turnover by early 1991 . |