Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [v-ing] half the " in BNC.

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1 I realised I was missing half the jokes , so I mugged up from a textbook — and here I am , ready for more ! ’
2 ‘ I can not believe you were here , in Roma , while I was employing half the detectives in New York to find you ! ’
3 She does n't know what she 's doing half the time !
4 Membership of the Party increased dramatically to , to two million people and then the masses under leadership again saying there was , they 're , they 're looking at about ten million , and they 're saying half the peasants in the are organized , that these are , are people who are , who , who are at the forefront of the , of the movement , involvement is , is very high .
5 A lot of them were slow , and did n't know what they were doing half the time : they 'd give you the wrong medicine .
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