Example sentences of "[was/were] about [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kit Kats were about all I could afford . |
| 2 | And it were about that height . |
| 3 | Another group just said , they were rooms one through ten , and er one of the tank farm group said , we did n't know exactly where we were but this was I think the assumptions that Group two told me were er , were about that . |
| 4 | I 'm not joking , his leg his legs were about that wide right ? |
| 5 | But if you imagine when you were about this high and someone gives you a ball to kick and you you fall over and you , Right I 'm not trying that again . |
| 6 | the numbers you 've had them since you were about this big |
| 7 | NO ADDRESSES Mr Pearson said he thought there were about another 200 premises for which they had no addresses . |
| 8 | The Geological Survey was one of the very few organizations employing men of science in Britain — Greenwich Observatory was one of the others — but their status was about that of clerks in the Civil Service , and this rankled . |
| 9 | I was about that , . |
| 10 | You saw how happy she was about that . |
| 11 | I , standing on my tiptoes I could n't see out the window to , to look out to the stage erm , and there was a huge step up , it was about that , which was great for people 's bad backs and if you got up on that , erm then you sat on top of a very high cocktail chair , in fact one of our people had to kneel on top of the high cocktail chair , to look , to see down , over the window , down to the stage and they did n't give us a sound feed which would sound familiar |
| 12 | I thought he was about that . |
| 13 | so , I could n't of got out the way if I 'd of wanted to , cos I was about that much from the curb , I thought he 's |
| 14 | Mind you we got our own video when she was about that no she was younger than that . |
| 15 | and there was about that much bacon on the bacon slice , the rest were fat , I says I 'm not paying for that . |
| 16 | I can remember when that Upton bypass , when it was done the cry there was about that ! |
| 17 | Er no er it was about that jumper look |
| 18 | It was about that short . |
| 19 | So we edged forward and in the middle of the archway and there was about that much and it would n't go . |
| 20 | Cos the back end you know is is slightly higher than the front end and we 'd just got it in and the front was about that so it was n't gon na Oh well can you imagine the perspiration there would be , |
| 21 | Oh the funny thing was about that was Margaret was with him |
| 22 | Spid I remember when me and my Mum had to catch one in a fishing net and throw it down the toilet cos my Dad were n't there and it was about that big ! |
| 23 | A couple of stiff drinks and a bowl of soup afterwards was about all I could cope with . |
| 24 | He had a blank sort of face , and that was about all there was to him . |
| 25 | On this day , early in 1940 , the hut was still there and a few deckchairs , but that was about all . |
| 26 | OK , so Zacchaeus was clever , but that was about all he had going for him . |
| 27 | The area in which they lived was overcrowded and unsalubrious and if there was rather less unemployment than in the north of England , that was about all that could be said for it . |
| 28 | He knew Arbuthnot had married a local farmer 's daughter , but that was about all . |
| 29 | It was about all a nome had to look at , most of the time . |
| 30 | That was about all she had inherited . |