Sentence examples for half standing from inspiring English sources
Half standing up, the old man fumbled for Marina's hand and kissed it.
What had him half standing, still sitting, his fat arse hanging over the armchair.
"Ah, here's my daughter!" she cried, triumphant, interrupting him, half standing up from the table to wave to Kate.
It is worth persisting with him in the deeper role Showed flashes of excitement, with a wonderful move late in the first half standing out.
The modest James S Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House fills with about a hundred journalists, half in the fixed seats, half standing in the aisles or at the back.
Appears in chapel relief, three times on west wall (top register, panel of relief above south false door, third adult figure from right; between false doors, right half, standing behind her parents; north false door, north jamb, bottom register), identified (in all cases) as [rxt nswt] royal acquaintance; chapel (Hildesheim 2970) found in situ in D 117.
I'm two-and-a-half, standing on a stool in my grandmother's kitchen; she has let me help her wash the dishes, which is quite the grown-up honour.
Study sites in the Foothills were partially salvage-logged (one-half of standing snags ≥23 cm dbh removed), and sites in the Star Gulch burn were unlogged.
Half of the poses of each type were seated and half were standing, such that pose type was crossed with the two-level seated/standing variable.
After two and a half hours standing in a queue waiting to be seen, easyJet sent us to a hotel near Bristol.
"I said, 'I stay here for two and a half hours standing and I am an old man.' " The officer replied, " 'In this case you will not have a visa,' and sent me away," Mr. Stein said.
