Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] about [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hardly surprising that , after what he had witnessed , he should set about some slaughter of his own . |
| 2 | Well us lot must walk about half a mile a day you know . |
| 3 | Yeah that looks about the right sort of thing , cos it was fifty ohms and we 've put , I mean it 's not that much small you know it 's not going to let , it should let about half as much through as that lets through this should n't it ? |
| 4 | In general terms , a paragraph should have several sentences , and might cover about half a page of A4 ( about 100 to 150 words ) . |
| 5 | She might phone about half past nine when she comes back from the hospital . |
| 6 | Well as I say dock area , they might live about half a mile away that was all . |
| 7 | Er so I said , Alright I 'll stop taking them which I did n't anyway , but a lot of people used to took them but some used to take er when it when the periods were due they 'd take about half a box , I mean instead of taking two , er two one day and two the next they 'd take about half a box . |
| 8 | Er so I said , Alright I 'll stop taking them which I did n't anyway , but a lot of people used to took them but some used to take er when it when the periods were due they 'd take about half a box , I mean instead of taking two , er two one day and two the next they 'd take about half a box . |
| 9 | One evening , I sat on the rocks at Land 's End , watching the sun set across the ocean , when I felt a sudden urge to find a standing stone circle which I 'd read about that day . |
| 10 | And then we 'd cycle to Pilton , and I was completely happy beside my big fine-looking uncle with his shiny blue-black hair while he made some dinner , and then we 'd potter about all afternoon in his garden and his little greenhouse . |
| 11 | He said the increase to £4.25 would affect about half the population and could lead to some hard-up patients being forced to go without certain treatments . |
| 12 | If it was a er you know , if it was really attractive to them , something they wanted to do , they would bring about those compromises themselves . |
| 13 | Industry and agriculture would pay about half the bill , the government the other half . |
| 14 | I thought it would last about half an hour . |
| 15 | One 25kg bag will cover about half a square metre , to a thickness of 25mm |
| 16 | American car companies now reckon they will use about half the number of suppliers they once did . |
| 17 | The process will take about half an hour , will require two reels of tape and will be initiated by the Computer Services Department operator at 08.00 , whenever a transfer to the Working-Set has taken place on the previous night . |
| 18 | I hope that got us through the little post-lunch siesta period , erm , we 're going to do another er , time management game now which will take about half an hour , and I need to split you up once again into groups , erm , okay . |
| 19 | The USAF will operate about half the total from Alconbury , and most of the rest will carry equipment to detect enemy radars . |
| 20 | If I do that two or three times I can make about half the cost of the room per day at the hotel — honestly . ’ |
| 21 | Only a society in which people feel secure in their peer groups can bring about such mass action from below . |
| 22 | God is seen as one who can bring about such kairoi in history , and who has a will for humankind . |
| 23 | The fact that a cause of the wine 's being cool , say refrigeration , is my means-this is the fact that ( i ) I can bring about that cause , and ( ii ) it is a cause of what I desire . |
| 24 | Because an excess of caffeine can bring about many of the symptoms of stress and because these symptoms actually impair mental ability , you are likely to find yourself making foolish mistakes . |
| 25 | One of my arguments is that the mechanical relations of work can bring about this withdrawal . |
| 26 | ‘ I hope all this shit that 's going down can bring about some sort of understanding , ’ says NWA 's Eazy-E about the riots in Los Angeles . |
| 27 | If we find out who killed the Daine projection , I figure we can bring about some sort of dramatic crisis and finish the whole thing off . |
| 28 | One thing I can remember about that evening was that I could n't eat anything . |
| 29 | And I pick it up and it says Loughborough Building Society and you can see about half a percent er premium rate on fifty thousand pounds , and you think that might be worth going for , for , for somebody who 's got a lot of capital , but is it really , because if you 've got fifty thousand in there , you are at risk . |
| 30 | at the moment I can see about half well a dozen people sat on one of the buses . |