Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | It a is actually a lot better because you can get them usually get them down to about five p a copy . |
| 2 | We waved them off at about 8.45am the following morning , after having a thoroughly enjoyable weekend . |
| 3 | He had n't got the information I was waiting for but he rang me back at about a quarter to ten . |
| 4 | ‘ A burst knee muscle also set me back by about three weeks , ’ he said , adding that the Fiji match would be an ideal opportunity to blood another flanker in front of a home crowd . |
| 5 | We take them out at about six months to get them used to travelling on buses and trains , as well as teaching them to stop at kerbs , listening for traffic and avoiding any obstacles . |
| 6 | By the time I left , I 'd beaten him down to about twice the price he probably had in mind . |
| 7 | I stood looking him over for about a minute and then went round the room . |
| 8 | I did n't drop him off till about twenty past , twenty five past ten . |
| 9 | So we picked her up at about twenty to three and we took her back there at quarter to eight ? |
| 10 | He knocked it on to about 35 feet . |
| 11 | The last play I worked out that w we had one four hundred and thirty seven of those thirty seven would be er freebies to the homes in , in to bring it down to about four hundred and on the ticket money we took in , I would say about a hundred and twenty of those were erm er concessions . |
| 12 | I wrote back saying , get on with it , and incidentally we overestimated the shipment cost , brought it down to about half , got to be awfully careful there , because some of these bits are so big , they , and today he said , customer will make decision only after ten days , since final size of assortment is under preparation , meantime with your offered price and revised delivery time , it looks very difficult to book this order . |
| 13 | They reckon he should 've said cut it down to about two or three , four pints a day , there 's fifteen milligrams of valium . |
| 14 | But we reckon that in actual fact if you erm do n't do the we just dis discount the billing and collection and the pensions conversions and so on that we will actually get some benefits from the , the , the things that we 've already put in place this year , we reckon we can reduce that overspend on that side of it down to about a hundred and eighty two thousand erm because it 's , it 's nominal paper er transactions in a way . |
| 15 | Since then , Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett have whittled it down by about 2 seconds . |
| 16 | You did , so he 's come , he 's knocking that list off the total figure , with , because that list was higher , subsequently I 've managed to knock it down by about three or four percent anyway , erm , he 's , he 's knocking off a bigger sum than he should to produce a smaller welding price . |
| 17 | and then tie it up for about three weeks . |
| 18 | And it fucked it up for about a second or three seconds afterwards . |
| 19 | I remember when I was out on the road , I had a particular connection with , we had a motor bike policy , and it was an appalling risk , and it came up for renewal , and er , nobody had take it round the market , and I mean , that that was an idol threat , because nobody in their right mind would want this particular motor and we said , well not if they want to jack up the premium on it , they wanted to jack it up by about thirty or forty per cent , and and the broker was not very happy about this . |
| 20 | They did n't hurt exactly , it was more of a niggly pain but I worked it out to about once every four minutes or so and my mum said we 'd better ring the hospital . |
| 21 | I stuck it out for about an hour , and then could not stand another minute . |
| 22 | If we can take it back to about eighteen ninety |