Example sentences of "i [verb] [pers pn] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today I mean they , I mean when you take , years and years ago when there used to be man handling everything same as timber , I mean we had about three hundred dockers then . |
| 2 | I mean it took about ten minutes , quarter of an hour altogether . |
| 3 | But into your fifth year and you were supposed to be really you know , fully fledged but I mean you hade about four years to serve . |
| 4 | I mean he had about four or five different shirts there . |
| 5 | Yeah but I mean she looks about fifty five to me . |
| 6 | And she 'd I think she had about eight , over over a period of years you know . |
| 7 | ‘ Good ! ’ he commented briefly , and then , to her immense surprise , ‘ I suggest we dine about eight , which … ’ |
| 8 | erm and I know they sold about five or six tickets at least next week |
| 9 | I remember I bought about 100 copies of it and sent it to various agents , bookers , and media . |
| 10 | You feel like er , that 's whose , like ex soldiers throughout the company , and he said to Colin er , he said , how many people are you thinking about employ , our Colin seems to think there 'd be enough work to keep 'im going , like , he says , he says , well how many people are you thinking about employing , he says , only only me and me like , it 's oh , oh , he says , there 's plenty of work to keep two of going , he said , I thought you employed about six . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | The only trouble is , it 's sporned so many , I think they got about twenty eight industrial groups ! |
| 13 | They I think they got about twenty per cent bigger . |
| 14 | See they used to get the , they used t what they call they used to report for work at say quarter past seven in the morning and then they be at work at half past seven , but now of course they do n't now , they , I think they start about eight o'clock now . |
| 15 | We had , I think we had about two ships of that , that 's all . |
| 16 | On average I think we get about 15 care assistants to each meeting . ’ |
| 17 | Well yes , we did , we rang on Tuesday , we had a bit of a trouble getting through , I think we rung about seven times before we got through but er he , well , well he did n't say anything to me , everything I asked him he said yes to , but Steve |
| 18 | Those two put together , I think we lost about three hundred thousand pounds as a result of the change in distribution . |
| 19 | I think she I think she did about eight or nine European countries did n't she ? |
| 20 | No he gets I think he gets about fifty boxes given to him and of course he does n't smoke so he just |
| 21 | I think he scored about 9 goals in the 5 or so matches he played in the youth cup , and 2 more in the senior ! |
| 22 | I think he aged about ten years in one after that ! |
| 23 | I think I heard about thirty . |
| 24 | I can only really remember one occasion when my husband knew that I was I was taking Pills at the time , I think I took about twenty eight in one night . |
| 25 | I saw a gadget the other day that 's two , two plastic circles with handles on , mm , I think I paid about seven pounds and this was to gather up leaves and big lot of |
| 26 | I think it took about three years to get to a normal level . |
| 27 | As we rounded Hyde Park Corner , I looked in the rear-view mirror , then the wing mirror and I estimated I had them outnumbered about five to one . |
| 28 | I daresay you heard about that joke-night among the London literati . ’ |