Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Saturday , early afternoon , he 'd gone into the city to get his watch repaired and returned about five o'clock . |
| 2 | The business grew steadily and by the time I joined in 1962 we were manufacturing and selling about 20,000 tonnes yearly . |
| 3 | Last year Her Majesty 's inspectors produced and published about 150 reports on individual schools and , usually , no parent saw the reports . |
| 4 | The system also administrates and pays about 1,700 pensioners from the Wellcome Group Pension Fund . |
| 5 | A battery of stamps consisted usually of four wooden baulks placed vertically , riding in guides , each shod with heavy iron heads which were lifted alternately by means of cams on a revolving axle , acting upon lifters or tappets affixed to the sliding baulks , The stamps were raised and dropped about 12 inches , at a rate best able to cope with the material fed . |
| 6 | Personally , I exercise and run about three times a week , early in the morning . |
| 7 | Unravel and flatten about 1.5 metres of paper twist and cut in half along its length . |
| 8 | In 1910 , all the other minorities , to which had been added the Muslim Serbo-Croats of Bosnia-Herzegovina ( annexed in 1909 ) , outnumbered Germans and Magyars combined and provided about 58 per cent of the subjects of the house of Habsburg . |
| 9 | His own description of what followed is worth repeating : ‘ I found this location in Glasgow that I really liked and took about 15 shots of it . |
| 10 | The Angels later paired and spawned about a year later . |
| 11 | Those two crooks must have been killed and resurrected about seven times when they fell into all Kevin 's traps and things . |
| 12 | This replaces non-domestic rates ( i.e. property taxes levied on commercial , industrial and other business premises ) , whose levels have previously been locally determined and raised about 17 per cent of local government income in England ( 1984/85 figures , Douglas and Lord , 1986 , p. 15 ) . |
| 13 | One time in Houston , Texas , I stagedived and took about ten people with me . |
| 14 | One time in Houston , Texas , I stagedived and took about ten people with me . |
| 15 | So far , man has described and named about 700,000 of them and there are certainly three or four times as many still unnamed , awaiting the attentions of anyone who has the time , patience and knowledge to sit down and make a systematic review of them . |