Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [be] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've no , I I hardly think that they 're commentating about twenty miles away . |
| 2 | I 'd like to know cos I can get , if I 'm getting say if I 'm getting about two |
| 3 | Right erm we have run two now er unit data correction runs and it looks like we 're correcting about seventy six percent , on average , of the policy base erm the other twenty four percent being cases which are being sliced erm multiple events , you know , er and all the rest of it , all real horror stories . |
| 4 | ‘ If they 're running about all day in the fresh air , that 'll make them hungry , I should think ! ’ |
| 5 | The argument was not yet clothed in the garments of modern genetics , which had virtually not yet been invented : the now celebrated experiments of the monk Gregor Mendel ( 1822–84 ) on the sweet peas in his Moravian monastery garden ( 1865 ) passed completely unnoticed until they were rediscovered about 1900 . |
| 6 | I used to tell him off for riding a bike without a light — summonsed him in the end and he was fined about ten bob . |
| 7 | ‘ Right , and he was admitted about two hours ago . ’ |
| 8 | The owners of the palace were the Hartig family and it was built about 1700 by Alliprandi . |
| 9 | and it were gone about seven or eight weeks and when he heard nowt about it |
| 10 | The property included all of the land now occupied by Prestwick International Airport and , until it was demolished about 1965 , his mansion house was used as the airport hotel and reception area for about 25 years . |
| 11 | So we left and the boss told me that how he would work it out and how it would take probably something in the order of two thirds of that particular van that w we were going to use , if it was packed about six foot high . |
| 12 | Witnesses were uncertain if the bus was in the middle or the inside lane but it was doing about 63 miles an hour when a Nissan car , driven by 74 year old Malcolm Austin , crashed into the front . |
| 13 | Erm well erm I I normally work four days a week but I 'm not working today because we 're having about twenty people around for a buffet supper tonight so I 'm very busy cooking . |
| 14 | This is largely because he was mistaken about two of his standard candles : his cepheid variables had characteristics somewhat different from those he assumed , and some of his brightest ‘ stars ’ were actually highly luminous bodies of ionised hydrogen . |
| 15 | Oh well he he he had to take on a oh he could easily afford it because he was paid about five shillings in the year . |
| 16 | I can remember being made to kiss these strangers , even when I was say about nine , eight or nine , I can remember feeling quite embarrassed about having to do it |
| 17 | The mother was also alone in the ambulance with her daughter when she was transferred about 11 p.m. to the labour ward in another part of the hospital shortly before she signed the refusal form . |
| 18 | We used to play it when we were aged about ten or eleven . |