Example sentences of "i [verb] about two " in BNC.
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1 | I mean I tried , tried to er er done it in my book about my again and I read about two pages and I fell asleep . |
2 | yes , well I mean about two lots of minutes ago |
3 | I had about Friday night I finished work here at twelve and then up again at and I got about two hours sleep then and I started to . |
4 | I erm run about erm ten kilometres and with this E P O , I run about two and a half — three minutes faster than before . |
5 | ‘ I ordered about two thousand boxes , ’ he recalled . |
6 | It 's to do with the Government housing policy at national level , but there are certain things we can do , and I remember about two and a half years ago I arranged for a group of people to come and give a seminar to the Housing Committee . |
7 | and we 're right on the main road and I reckon about two hundred people walked past the garden today watching us . |
8 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
9 | so anything little something like changing the pump , you know I pay about two hundred pound plus his fucking labour . |
10 | Absolutely now I mean i i it 's interesting for women because I suppose in Australia I was a Republican and here I suppose I thought I saw about two erm now for me to have used that word thirty years ago I would possibly have been locked in the garden shed and left without food and drink |
11 | I mean if you go it 's normally I chat about two lectures on that and you give lots of examples . |
12 | And the great man looked very tense and thoughtful and answered : " I think about two or maybe three sorties . " |
13 | I did about two and then I went off again and erm |
14 | Er what would you be able to manage on , sort of thing and I said about two hundred and fifty a year and er , you know , that was quite realistic in those days but erm obviously it would n't go very far now , would it ? |
15 | At the time I could n't work legally in England and I had about two or three months to deliver my thesis for my degree . |
16 | I had about two inches cut off actually . |
17 | I had about two mouthfuls and then I just thought , no , I 'm going home . |
18 | I rise at eleven , I dine about two , |
19 | ‘ I spend about two days a week at my office in Barnsley and the rest of the time is spent travelling around Pennines at meetings , ’ she said . |