Example sentences of "have half " in BNC.

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1 Oh you would n't go , well I would n't say that you could my father would 've half killed us
2 The Pru has half a million motorists on its books and is sending them each a booklet when their policies are renewed explaining the benefits of conversion .
3 Unfortunately , Mr Savage has half a point .
4 Sun — which admits its latest strategy is similar to the route trodden by MIPS Computer Systems Inc that now has half a dozen semiconductor companies selling its R series RISC designs — says it is just awaiting clearance to announce the names of several firms that have agreed to take on the Sparc .
5 It says it has half a dozen ports of packages to GL from large software house which will be released for PX/Iris GL users within three months — it 'll also help smaller firms without its marketing muscle bring their applications to market under PX/Iris GL , which is priced at £3,250 for a development licence — £320 for a run-time version .
6 " So has half the city … that gets you nowhere … "
7 It 's no good saying to the revenue well half of it er my wife has half of this account therefore I 'm not regarding it as mine .
8 Selina has half of it now — to shore up her dignity and self-respect , remember ?
9 He has half an eye on where the gun went .
10 He no longer writes in the evenings but still has half an acre of land and now has four beautiful little children .
11 You ‘ Il be very glad you did this if you turn up one day to find the river high and murky because if , for example , you know that one swim has a lovely clean gravel bottom and another has half a Morris 1000 and a blackberry bush in it then this may help you decide where to fish and where to stick your mate !
12 Jopling senior , who farms near Northallerton , has half an eye on becoming Father of the House a title likely to pass to Edward Heath ( debut 1950 ) next time .
13 I mean you get a bus coming as far as Road and back I do n't suppose it has half a dozen folks on what 's this thing coming up here , nobody I 'd er I 've walked into Walsall all my life and but gradually the whole thing changes does n't it , and then the thing gets off as far as West Bromwich , and in , then , then there 's through traffic and then how far and the Green 's not big enough to take the turn around up Road then they change the direction , and it 's all done on bit by bit by bit and so Green 's got eroded it 's er
14 I 'm sure he has half a dozen .
15 He something about , I do n't know , he he got in trouble or something with and so , then she bought the van and he has it and then she has half the profit .
16 Madam Deputy Speaker there is course another matter of er of er broader significance and that is that er whilst these orders er er er cover erm certain financial institutions , they do n't erm they do n't cover others , they do n't cover Lloyds of London in so far as I could see , erm I 'd half expected to see the honourable member for Gloucester West er in his place to pursue his campaign that apparently he er he he is not able to be here and indeed er others who sit on the benches opposite who lost a large sum of money in Lloyds , er but they might have had something to say about it as it does seem odd that Lloyds has not been covered , no doubt the minister would tell us that needs primary legislation and I I 'm quite sure this government would move heaven and earth not to introduce another Lloyds bill er because of er the problems that that would no doubt attract .
17 And it was one of those such nights that at half past seven I 'd just got most of the fires set and ready to er er just on and going and I 'd half an hour to get everything straightened and ready for eight o'clock opening , and the door at the back went , which was where the office used to be .
18 I sensed him thinking that we should have had half a dozen in the boat by now .
19 I 'd had half a tab at prayers in the morning but it had worn off by now .
20 We 've had half of Southampton in here . ’
21 You 've had half an hour to think up another excuse , and — ’
22 It was likely that Alison had n't given me a thought for weeks , and that she had had half a dozen more affaires .
23 We 've never had half of that in the past .
24 If we 'd had half the help from British Government for crumbling schools we 've had from Europe , we 'd have had a lot more done .
25 We 've had half a months rainfall in one day .
26 By the end of yesterday , having had half of the region 's press beating a path to her cage door in deepest East Cowton ( and a simultaneous announcement of her existence was being made in New York ) , she was feeling distinctly tired but kept her pecker up by chewing on a favourite piece of banana .
27 I 've had half of it , there about I tell you Chris had leave got get a new carpet when kids have come back
28 Mind you he went out and he had to have er erm mind you he 's had that , when you think of it you 've had half of that back .
29 We 've just had half an hour in Jubilee park , extremely brisk walk , I feel ext jolly toasty now .
30 When we 've had half a whole , I 'm thinking half a whole
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