half an hour

She set out in the early morning from Wuchang but did not arrive at my home after two and half an hour.

My boyfriend always arrives late. Last night I decided to give him a taste of his own medicine by keeping him waiting for half an hour.

Better still, he said, take a friend along, to sit with you for half an hour of minor bliss.

Sometimes, Ye Qing would call her boyfriend and asked him to see her in half an hour and bring some snacks passingly .

I told him we have come up with a new proposal for him to consider, so he agreed to give us half an hour on the Monday at 2pm.

She is at the supermarket downstairs. She said she would be back in about half an hour.

Ibrahim said: "Those gunmen infiltrated the city just two or three regions, the result was less than half an hour completely settled. "

"The two phone calls came within quick succession of one another so it was a really good half an hour for me, " he said.

One is the sales staff said the two-hour battery life, but I had to go out less than half an hour.

Tell everybody else. Be ready to leave in half an hour.

For a mild, stain-free bleach, soak your delicates in a mixture of lemon juice and baking soda for at least half an hour before washing.

It still wanted half an hour of sunset as he left the door of the Scala palace.

He pulled me aside and sat me down in his office where he told me stories and jokes for the better part of half an hour.

Less than half an hour when I was back from her, she run to my house for my proving that she was not a whore.

After half an hour he found one, borrowed it and took it into his office, so when Mr. Lloyd woke up, it was there in front of him.

We stayed up another half an hour talking, but only because we were too tired to set about going to bed.

Children vaccinated will have to remain in the hospital for at least half an hour as a precaution against allergic reactions.

Second, the cleaning work best after the end of each play within half an hour, if not frequently should clean up once a week.

And by the time I had spent half an hour talking about play, it was obvious that they were not -- did not feel that play was serious.

Check in staff tried to overcharge when checking in and then took half an hour to sort it out.

This seems to be a great disease in Europe during the doctor costume. . . Half an hour later, another man bent down in a trash can above.

He hurried to the railway station out of breath, only to be told that the train leaving for Shanghai had been away for half an hour.

A woman of fame and influence, Kan had nevertheless been courteous enough to keep me waiting only half an hour to speak to her.

A busy, high school and announced that the grave flat, no are allowed to see, half an hour.

If I expect you to be half an hour late, then I should also be half an hour late.

I was in a small boat during the storm, but it stopped after half an hour and I was able to breathe again.

He hurried to Madison Street and boarded a horse-car, which carried him to Ogden Place in half an hour.

Less than half an hour later, one of the vehicles returned to the police base with the body of the dead officer.

It's a vast improvement over talking for half an hour and hoping you touch on something of interest.

About a half an hour before she was getting ready to head out for dinner, there was a knock at Ellie's door.

I exclaimed, assuming the cheerful. and I fear I shall be weather -bound for half an hour, if you can afford me shelter during that space.

The author recounts that Rhonda ignored his advice, and came out of Jackie's room less than half an hour later, feeling utterly used.

Give it a day of the plan: the morning get up at 7 o 'clock, after getting up the road running around the village for half an hour.

"But the chances of him giving you a half an hour on a Wednesday afternoon in a hotel are probably much better. "

A Well, let's ask how much it costs. Half an hour is enough for me.

and half an hour later four sledges with bells drove up to the steps, their runners crunching, with a clanging sound, over the frozen snow.

Who else would stand in line at the post office with me for half an hour with only the promise of a lollipop as compensation?

He'll stand and stare at a plain white wall for half an hour as if it's the very most interesting thing in the whole world.

I had to read Emilia Galotti to her for half an hour before she took me into the shower and then to bed.

But I have no problem in her staying up for an extra half an hour, provided this will instil in her the habit of reading.

Half an hour later, Marguerite, pale as death, put on her fur-lined cape and left the ball.

I regret to tell you that the baby was born dead, said the nurse to my neighbor, Only if you had sent your wife here half an hour earlier!

He thought a journalist should be able to toss a report together in half an hour.

Also, the North's response appears to have come at least half an hour after the live firing exercise finished.

half - an - hour later several members of the reform came in and drew up to the fireplace , where a coal fire was steadily burning.

It was within half an hour before sunset when we entered the first wood; and a little after sunset, when we came into the plain.

I could give you to my sons for half an hour. They'd have it out of you!

When we got to the train station out of breath, the train have left for half an hour.

Today, I spent half an hour on the phone with a woman who was yelling at the top of her lungs, sobbing uncontrollably and hyperventilating.

You should have come straight to me! she raged, holding up the sad, limp remainder of what, half an hour before, had been a working arm.

Elton decided to walk up to her place and put off by half - an -hour or so the important business which lay before him.

Fortunately, he eventually did not let me down, half an hour later, he offered to get through the phone.

She asks me a question, then answers it herself, and after that she explained to me for half an hour why my answer is wrong.

It was nearly half an hour later after work this afternoon and I was getting ready to leave after I finished the work.

Carlo Ancelotti started the session with a talk at 3pm CET and the players then got to work on the lower field a half an hour later.

At the time I worked half an hour from home, I was on the road with sports teams a lot, and my wife also was on the road quite a bit.

As for himself, he had been fighting for half an hour now, and he was an old man.

After a half an hour , maybe, there was one guy at the far end of the table who wasn't saying much .

They discovered that staring for 10 minutes a day the breasts of a woman, is as beneficial as a good half an hour of exercises.

I got to the cinema yesterday, the film ? When had been on for half an hour.

Half an hour later an update came: the subject had been located. He was a member of the military training corps, and the guns were replicas.

and thus, with the help of the tide, I went at the rate of a league and a half an hour, as near as I could guess.

I'm afraid he's in a meeting at the moment. Could you call back in about half an hour?

After half an hour the doctor came out to discuss with me.

I said. She is a shower wash for half an hour. She sang like the edge. She thought it was a kind of enjoyment.

For half an hour Jimmy and Shandy played in the garden, rolling around the grass, play-fighting.

He had been speaking for half an hour when something happened that had never happened before. Hermione put up her hand.

DiYaXin pick up the car while at the good will call him half an hour to call himself, and a phone call to GengFei a meal together.

A few minutes later I was racing towards the center of the city in a The train was already half an hour late.

he would not dine from home, but he might walk in for half an hour.

But if you give yourself half an hour to calm down, you may finally be able to work up the nerve to approach someone.

I wanted to make a good impression on her, but I felt I was floundering a half an hour into the date.

The application is now spread across two nodes, and the database server can be started from scratch in less than half an hour.

But we found a hole so we snuck in and ran on the clay track for half an hour.

We had been a hat shop for half an hour and my wife was still in front fo the mirror.

Secretary: The meeting was supposed to have ended half an hour ago. I guess it won't be very long.

I argued with Councillor Jones for more than half an hour. I've no wish to lock horns with him again.

To keep fit Mary used to run along the beach every morning but now, instead, she jogs for half an hour every afternoon before supper.

Alright, let me get ready then, pick me up in half an hour.

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven, as it were for half an hour.

Within half an hour we sailed , and for the next six days we zigzagged our way across the ocean .

A brick hit him in the head and he was out cold for half an hour .

A conservative estimate of average mobile phone use now is approximately half an hour a day, seven days a week.

For the rest they could meet only in the streets, in a different place every evening and never for more than half an hour at a time.

There's a half an hour of investment in character before you get to the stuff that you're, you know, expecting.

I once asked a cabby to describe his life to me and he did not stop talking until I arrived home half an hour later !

"Seven" is unique in one detail of its construction; it brings the killer onscreen with half an hour to go, and gives him a speaking role.

The film had been on for about half an hour when I got to the cinema.

Many a time I have had to wait half an hour for that bus.

Jane: But you always take at least half an hour. No wonder they always say that he travels fastest who travels alone.

Jane: But you always take at least half an hour. No wonder they always say that he travels fastest who travels alone.

It took me over half an hour to get rid of him.

But if that same person emailed and asked you for a favor that took half an hour of your time, you might well provide it.

And for half an hour, we were brought into the building was only the interrogation room for investigation.

Sometimes, for half-an-hour, she would feel a sudden anxiety about him that was almost anguish.

John. It's Mary. I'm outside, and I didn't bring my cellphone with me today. I'll call you again in about half an hour. Talk to you later.

Hilarious, since I had been there half an hour before and there was hardly any breakfast left at all.

Half an hour later , there was no sign of even the smallest grass snake , much less a cobra .

'I daresay you haven't had much practice, ' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day.

Northwest Airlines Japan spokesman said the plane was about half an hour before landing encountered strong airflow.

She sat down and remained absolutely still for nearly half an hour.

And if the queue depth had been set to the 5000 calculated earlier, it would have been exceeded within the first half an hour.

The film had already been on for half an hour when Millie got to the cinema.

when he got to the cinema, the film has already begun for half an hour.

The book was so dull that it had him into the land of Nod in half an hour.

While some are having fun doing this, others are a little bit bored after standing in the sun for half an hour.

when the girls arrived half an hour late, and his boyfriend, said: I would like some help out of it!

This is uncomfortable, takes up to half an hour to fit, and the wearers have to wash the gel out of their hair afterwards.

In my tests, the download alone took under half an hour on a very fast connection, and about an hour and a half on a more typical one.

Jim has got used to reading for half an hour after getting up in the morning.

When I broke my foot at Spurs, I was sitting on the treatment table half an hour or so later and I had already come to terms with it.

I waited for her for half an hour before I realised she had stood me up.

Half an hour had gone by , but the last bus had not come yet. We had to walk home.

Usually one and half an hour . But sometimes I can't tear myself away from it . Several times my son came to look for me for supper.

If it weren't for the many interruptions the meeting would have ended half-an-hour ago.

BACK in March Barack Obama compared the Democratic primary to a "good movie" that has lasted "half an hour too long" .

Zheng took full advantage of her opponent's erratic form and raced through the opening set in just half an hour.

In something under half an hour there was a knock at the door.

Please whomp up a meal FOR us; we have to leave in half an hour.

f. I'm sorry to say I have to hold the ball back for half an hour, Princess Diana will join us.

I do not know how to do, even after a meal will be holding a "Three Kingdoms" stand in half an hour, until you feel not so saturated.

LESS than half an hour by train from central London, Reading is a town that wants to be a city.

If the dog is dirty when it comes in from outside, put it in it's crate with a clean cotton towel for about a half an hour.

After half an hour, the scoundrel was shot by a policeman at the corner of the street. The women appreciated the police.

It was half an hour before she was due on the set of Daybreak, the morning mix of news, features and traffic reports.

And it was but half an hour before he left Bath that you gave him the most positive encouragement.

Sometimes really stupid man, like a girl, on the computer screen can be desperate for half an hour, only for the girl QQ reply.

The patient before you is a rather complicated case, I'm sorry ' you will have to wait at least half an hour.

Today, I missed my bus by about ten seconds. I then had to wait in a torrential downpour for half an hour to catch the next one.

The distance can be easily eaten up by him in half an hour.

He reads for half an hour before he goes to bed .

they filled the kitchen with red and blue stars that bounced from ceiling to wall for at least half an hour.

Half an hour later, I got off the bus one stop away from Baharestan, where the Iranian parliament building is located.

Medvedev took photos with the children and gave them goodbye hugs when the half an hour meeting concluded.

I get up in the morning at 10 o'clock at night half an hour before I go to bed and eat nowt but an 'andful of recycled glass.

Walking half an hour before the consumption of water, half an hour is the consumption of fat, the long run will be able to lose fat.

In half an hour he felt that he knew all there was to know about the horrible creature.

At first she was asleep. Half an hour later she woke up and began to cry.

I'm going to have to rearranges the schedule for the extra people, but give me half an hour and I'll soon have it taped.

When he went outside half an hour later, he was astonished to find that the little black lamb was almost white.

He had a lot to explain, and no time for more than a short meeting. Thus a lengthy briefing had to be telescoped into half an hour.

Even if you can only do half an hour, it will help you sleep and get back into a routine.

The anaconda wrapped itself around the boy. The grandfather beat the snake with rocks and a knife for half an hour.

We got to the airport with half an hour to spare before we had to check in for our flight.

For a half an hour, Marko made a presentation to Potokar and his team about Active Directory and its benefits and challenges.

As they had been discussing a score of personal matters only half-an-hour before, the introductory style seemed a little superfluous.

Two men from the Public Security Bureau grilled Li for half an hour on her every movement and intention .

There had been an accident with the boiler, and it would not leave until half an hour after midnight.

Before beginning to do our homework, we had listened to the radio half an hour.

Allow to stew gently for half an hour, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon. Keep checking as they can easily burn at the beginning.

Being half an hour later, he began to fear.

Under the direction of her husband and son, she strive with the fish about half an hour and landed it successfully.

Please bite and hold the cotton ball tightly in place. Don't spit it out until half an hour from now.

You are asked to move some spools around in a box for half an hour, then for the next half an hour you move pegs around a board.

And then I said, let's get to it; that's all you get, a half an hour.

"The kitchen closes in half an hour, " said the iron lady of the house.

The urban railway (S-Bahn) departs every 10 minutes and will bring you to the centre of Munich in less than half an hour.

You use the big tub, or vat, with detergent soaked for half an hour, gently rub, do not push as hard, more clear on several occasions.

In order to put them on we had to sit on them for half an hour, as if we were hatching eggs.

He was playing well for half an hour but we need to see whether he's fit and then decide if he can play from the start or not.

To win, a robot had to excavate 150kg (330lb) of simulated lunar soil and move it into a container in less than half an hour.

After about half an hour, she gets up and goes outside to work on the trees and flowers around the apartment.

"Our goals do not include helping you get a good grade, " Jobs emailed back after half an hour.

They can last for only half an hour or up to a week.

She knew not how to support herself, and from actual weakness sat down and cried for half an hour.

Half an hour passed---an hour---another hour; the fish began to look disgusting.

As the meeting will last one hour, the host informed me to limit my speech to half an hour.

Put some water, the stuffed red dates and sugar in the pot. Cook for about half an hour till the surface of red date becomes smooth.

I' m going to leave in half an hour. I will (or am going to) finish all of my work before I leave.

It has been slightly under half an hour and I'm sorry for that.

I had not been reading for half an hour when I heard someone call my name.

I'm sorry but I spent half an hour looking for my car keys. The whole time they were on the coffee table, right under my nose!

Ticket collection must be at least half an hour before the session time begins.

The Natives used to dig up the roots, chop them smoothly and then steep them into water for about half an hour.

Thank you. What made me really mad is I was held up in a traffic jam for almost half an hour.

Nonetheless, a half an hour later, he called back to say that my penguin had been found.

Mrs. Long told me last night that he sat close to her for half an hour without once opening his lips.

Professor carefully inspected the admission stomach of the deceased, less than half an hour, then died of the mystery revealed.

Father saw I watch TV and said: "again see half an hour to read a book, look more bad eyes, also influence learning. "

When you know you've only got half an hour to clear your inbox, you work faster.

You should try to lose weight while working out. Walking at least once a day, each about half an hour.

'It's impossible, ' said Winstanley. ' I sat next to him for nearly half an hour. '

He had been well and had begun work only half an hour before, but within minutes he was dead.

Driver: Half an hour! I've been driving around all day looking for passengers.

Having been cautioned, the defender should have been professional enough not to tug at the same opponent's jersey after half an hour.

Most of the carriage rides are a half an hour but can seat up to four people.

General treatment of not more than half an hour at a time, radiation and skin surface distance does not exceed 60 cm.

When the race began, I doubt that he knew that he would be dead in half an hour.

So every morning, I read a passage aloud for half an hour to try to pronounce every word correctly with a recorder.

I had not been reading for half an hour when I heard steps outside.

The results mirror those at a few schools that have delayed starting times more than half an hour.

Two explosions were heard miles away, and three state television stations were knocked off the air for about half an hour.

a good cigar will smoke (= can be smoked) at least half an hour.

I'll be back in half an hour to hear your answer.

Alavish tomb for the emperor, complete with a Terracotta Army, was built near the capital Xianyang, a city half an hour from modern Xi'an.

Half an hour later the meeting broke up , the committee members far more cheerful and optimistic than when they had assembled .

Half an hour behind schedule, a Polaroid rep said that the company was 'very, very excited' about its collaboration with the singer.

Half an hour later, Ron arrived, nursing his right arm and bringing a strong smell of polish into the darkened room.

To write a short passage of about 100 words in half an hour would be just a snap to most students in their class.

we got there in about a half an hour fairly dripping , for it was a most awful hot day.

How did you manage to get here so quickly ? I wasn't expecting you for at least another half an hour .

I couldn't have been asleep for more than half an hour when I awoke with a strong smell of smoke in my nostrils.

Half an hour later I was in her opponent's kitchen with a plate of cookies balanced on my knee.

In this way, she usually takes at least half an hour to cover the short distance of less than 200 metres from school to home.

I'll check back in half an hour to see how you are doing.

US and UK guidelines urge half an hour of moderate exercise five days a week.

Jellied eels are eels cooked for approximately half an hour and allowed to cool. The juices then solidify forming the jelly.

Half an hour later, Liu Yu-ying found herself embarking on a little adventure in a five- storeyed building in Avenue Joffre.

The public is usually let in half an hour before the performance begins.

Let her stand half an hour longer on that stool, and let no one speak to her during the remainder of the day.

If you want, I'll sit with your daughter for half an hour if you want to go down to the health centre to register.

To say the Jesus Prayer a hundred time attentively and without haste, about half an hour is needed, but some ascetics require even longer.

When I told him there is another half an hour after a guest, he's very readily agreed to meet with me.

The bank closes in half an hour and I need to cash a check.

In half an hour he left the house an engaged man, whose soul was not his own, but the woman's to whom he had bound himself.

The day he gave me that quick lesson , Hogan talked about the golf swing for half an hour.

Not very long, half an hour twice a week with David Holmes, my stunt double.

The Best way of promoting health and prolonging life is to do physical exercise for half an hour every morning.

'She must stand half an hour longer on that chair, and nobody may speak to her for the rest of the day. '

She lay down on her bed for half an hour.

But that is not the case, from home to the train station, across the street, walk for half an hour.

Nobody can patiently wait for half an hour beyond the designated time, because the next item on the timetable would be affected.

They would spend half an hour or more running through the garden.

Half an hour later the baby woke up and began to cry.

"Wash up and eat your breakfast, Avery! " said his mother. "The school bus will be along in half an hour. "

After I struggled against the floodwater for more than half an hour, finally the water was clean up. I had a release from the urgent status.

Then quietly depart half an hour early to meet someone you actually want to have a drink with, preferably nowhere near the office.

today I give myself the time easily keep for half an hour, I use it for half an hour to pray, think about the vision of my life.

We waited more than half an hour for Helen but in the end we had to leave without her.

If he had been half an hour earlier, he could have met his old classmate he had not seen for ten years.

Chelsea's on - loan left - back was stretchered off after half - an -hour following a collision with his own goalkeeper.

half an hour later, out of the refrigerator even strawberries sprinkled with powdered sugar.

I'm really freaking out for I'm going on a blind date in half an hour, but I'm still not sure how to dress up.

They must have arrived at the airport by now, and might be here in half an hour.

does it costs half an hour for you to do your homework ?

And I get up and go to bed early every day. So I sleep at least eight hours a night. I also exercise for half an hour every morning.

Within less than half an hour, the principal business had been disposed of.

It was a passion of Nick's, for a half an hour film that he really wanted to make.

When I arrived half an hour before opening on the first day of the sale, there was already a queue around three sides of the building.

Second, it takes 21 minutes for water to enter the cells of the body, therefore, drinking water a half an hour before a meal aids digestion.

The assignment is few enough to be finished within half an hour.

An infallible remedy for toothache: wash the root if an aching tooth in vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the sun.

And Tom King, who for half an hour had conserved his strength, now expended it prodigally in the one great effort he knew he had in him.

I'm trying to finish my homework in half an hour.

The company lies in coastal city of Taizhou, only half an hour away from airport by car.

I must have done all right because after half an hour's wait I was sent into another room for a psychological test.

He had been looking at the vase for half an hour when the manager of the shop noticed him.

daily travel between lodgings and the Site, if it exceeds half an hour each way and there are no suitable lodgings closer to the Site.

Reading at least half an hour a day will improve your oral English.

Especially the elderly and infirm people must pay attention to this point, take half an hour to rest for 10 minutes, to avoid fatigue.