Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [adv] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overlap of turns occurs in only about 5 per cent of conversation or less , strongly suggesting that speakers somehow know exactly when and where to enter ( Ervin-Tripp 1979 ) . |
| 2 | The answer to his first point is that it is absolutely clear that a number of people who break their bail conditions are remanded in custody when they are brought back to the court ; but that happens in only about six out of 10 cases , and in four out of 10 cases when those who break their bail conditions are brought back to the court , it seems that they are no longer remanded in custody but are again let out on bail . |
| 3 | Well it is and I mean they 'll be simpler would n't they , than pulling up things like this I mean if we 're not gon na get out there , Rosemary says she gets out there about nine o'clock , do n't she ? |
| 4 | If you want to know why Phillipe Starck appears in just about every magazine , why Tokyo is still the in-place for designers , and why no one gives a tinker 's cuss about public design , your chance to find out is at a public debate next Friday under the gaze of Rubens 's corpulent characters on the painted ceiling of the Banqueting House in Whitehall . |
| 5 | This book helps on just about any game you care to name on a wide variety of computer formats . |
| 6 | This is remarkable given that the … scheme makes up only about a fifth of the total legal aid budget . ’ |
| 7 | This makes up only about 2% of industry 's own spending on R&D , and in the past many of the DTI 's handouts have landed in the hands of the large firms which account for so much of industry 's total . |
| 8 | ‘ The trouble is that even when it 's a bad virus it always looks like ‘ flu — and remember , the polio itself dies out in about a week . |