Example sentences of "get [adv] about [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah alright then , got down about ten yards it started again
2 He got in about twenty five to five .
3 the last time he should have finished at quarter to one he got off about half past one mm
4 I got home about nine at night .
5 and er anyway he got home about half past three so we had to go down to Marks went down to Marks , came back and he bought me a sandwich , I said I 've eaten nothing all day , bought me this sandwich , I was hoping to go away at six
6 got in about half an hour after you phoned .
7 ‘ So I 've got just about two years and nine months to pay back the full sixty pounds plus interest ? ’
8 I mean we got up about nine o'clock as well .
9 We got up about nine so it was n't too bad .
10 Yeah , he 's up there sound-o , and he was up this way , he went up at one and got up about ten minutes after this one , so
11 I think I got up about half past eight this morning .
12 I got up about half past eight .
13 I got up about seven , had a little breakfast and went to catch the bus for Fulham .
14 to run like periods of day where everyone gets in about five o'clock .
15 And he gets in about three thousand six hundred a year on that .
16 I mean if you have a good hour in there you 're not gon na get in smack on ten be there about twenty past ten , probably get in about twenty to eleven that 's just right .
17 I normally catch quarter-past-five bus and I get in about ten-past-six , but he wanted me to work late and I says , well how late ?
18 Well , I could fit most of them in , I 'm currently getting in about twelve , ten or twelve , I could fit them in .
19 During a normal night 's sleep we cycle between these two main states , generally getting through about four cycles as the night passes .
20 About the time we 're fucking get away about six quid !
21 I think in terms of schools it only really applies to special schools , I think once y even in some of the small independents , once you get over about forty or fifty , then you 're gon na have enough contacts
22 There 's a hatchery in Ilminster where we buy day-old chicks by the thousand — my birds get through about five hundred every month or two .
23 They get through about three dustbin-fuls every week .
24 ‘ I get home about 3.30 am , take a bottle of Evian water and the papers up to my office and tune into Bob Harris on Radio One .
25 You 'd start then , get home about half past three in the afternoon , yeah
26 She used to generally get home about , she used to go right to you see , and get home about seven o'clock at night .
27 I get up about 8.30 — when the baby wakes up .
28 I get up about seven
29 I get up about 2.30 a.m. every morning and start at 3.30 a.m .
30 And I get up about half four , right ?
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