Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] about [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know he had a rather possessive attitude towards her-I told you about that time he came into her class , did n't I ? — but from the way he looked at her , you 'd have thought she was the most perfect and precious thing on earth to him . |
| 2 | I could see them about half a mile away still running wild . ’ |
| 3 | Yeah and he 's he 's gon na ring you about half past six . |
| 4 | Cos it got a bit pricey so I thought , we could of bought one about half . |
| 5 | Sadly , even the pitch control on the RP affects the speed of the sample and so Ibanez have only really got it about half right . |
| 6 | Mhm I wan na go to because then I get a and it takes me about half an hour to get home . |
| 7 | C. She never bossed me about half as much as you do . |
| 8 | ‘ The hospital called me about half an hour ago , ’ Cowley said , and after a brief pause , ‘ Doyle regained consciousness at four this afternoon . |
| 9 | That 'd take you about half hour to cut that up and tie it . |
| 10 | So of course I , took me about half hour to find the forklift cos somebody had nicked it by time I went got the chemicals Robin comes down , he said oh do n't worry about he said do i do it tomorrow morning he said , they 'll be nobody about then can you go down the bot bottom and do the butterflies ? |
| 11 | His mum brought him about half an hour ago with a pretty nasty cut on the head . ’ |
| 12 | Grand though this sounds , it seems to be borne out by those who knew him about that time . |
| 13 | He follows me about all day . ’ |
| 14 | So I made a collage that said something about that day and their plight , and named it after one of the banners they were carrying . ’ |
| 15 | So I made a collage that said something about that day and their plight , and named it after one of the banners they were carrying . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't want some academic berk following me about all day . ’ |
| 17 | dad , dad did n't say nothing about all evening just pop in for an hour , but I could n't see Stuey and me sitting there disturb him , scared |