Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And these this is er a private car going along the road about fifty miles an hour going down towards Dover . |
| 2 | Bernice saw creatures flying in the sky about two kilometres away . |
| 3 | That means reporting to the receptionist about 15 minutes before the time of your interview . |
| 4 | We 've , we 've got the erm , we 've got the six hundred organizations running so far about three thousand events , probably a few more if you count every single er course that some of the training schools are running but in terms of key events I 'm very confident in being able to say there are three thousand events running around the country about half of which are new and that 's the important thing so about fifteen hundred new and inaugural events that did n't go on last year or the year before Belinda the R Y A Public Relations Officer has been coordinating the public relations campaign and these days to get the young pe young people and those young people whose parents do n't sail because it 's to get at the people whose parents do sail , you 've actually got to get in the media and er we 've been on Blue Peter , we 've been on Going Live another children 's programme on a Saturday morning and |
| 5 | In this case it has been decided to have a marginal shelf running around the pool about 23 cm ( 9 in ) below the surface — hence the stepped design . |
| 6 | Now we 're dealing with the year about eighteen ninety-six onwards , and the filmmakers of this time erm would make this large number of short films , make several in a day if they had the , if the , they had the opportunity and the subjects , and then they would print catalogues of these pictures and market them . |
| 7 | The odd German shell was bursting in the field about two hundred yards away from the bridge , far enough not to do any harm , except possibly to the cattle . |