Example sentences of "back [prep] half [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So anyway off we goes course when we come back for half an hour at ten o'clock well out of the other machine were n't it ? |
| 2 | Her heart cramped now as she thought of her husband 's folly in plumping for the easy money , as it had seemed , after three bad harvests — his airy promise to come home soon — his failure to return after his regiment had been disbanded in Madras and left to make its own way back round half the world . |
| 3 | We should be back in half an hour or so . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm referring to the habit shopkeepers have of leaving a note on their door saying : ‘ Back in half an hour . ’ |
| 5 | Having located the spot , which had to be served by a nearby airstrip , they rang Anthony Marangos in Paris and told him to call back in half an hour with the largest houses closest to the spot . |
| 6 | Only do n't be too long ; if Matt 's not back in half an hour I 'm going home . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Phone back in half an hour , ’ he said , and the soldiers went on their way , warmed by glasses of hot liquor . |
| 8 | Back in half an hour . |
| 9 | Well that 's a , that 's a thing of that particular day , at that time th th and life erm and then they get what they call , they bought a steam hopper , so the steam hopper would say , could get to sea quicker in half the time the dumb hoppers could and so we were rotating all the time , there used to be one dumb hopper go to sea , one steam hopper and we 'd be loading the other dumb hopper and then th course the steam hopper would be back in half the time we 'd that and that 's how we rotate , day to day . |
| 10 | The sound remains the same when played back at half the speed but lasts for twice as long . |