Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Passed me test about twelve years ago . |
| 2 | yes , well I mean about two lots of minutes ago |
| 3 | I mean about ten pound is the cheapest and perhaps even twelve . |
| 4 | like I say about ten to eleven , five to eleven said what are you doing then Bob ? |
| 5 | I recollect about half past ten that evening on the fourth . |
| 6 | I want about three or four inches off the bottom |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I read about 3.54 , 4.3 and 3.9 , what do they mean , which is best and will it solve the problem or should I just change back to a standard cam ? |
| 9 | I finish about ten to one . |
| 10 | Following a lie-down to recover I set about this mammoth task and after much intensified opening of envelopes the winner of 30 , yes THIRTY Hi-Tec games became clear . |
| 11 | I 'd say on average I get about 10 letters every day . ’ |
| 12 | I get about thirty quid if you stand on the right corner . |
| 13 | I remember about six weeks into the first nationally televised programme I ever did , going into Harrods to buy something . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I reckon about four and a half . |
| 16 | and we 're right on the main road and I reckon about two hundred people walked past the garden today watching us . |
| 17 | M Mr Deputy Speaker , you will have seen if you read these er orders in front of us today running to at least er I reckon about ten thousand words , but by and large , all and sundry are going to be bote , er going to be out of vote on June the ninth , citizens of the European union and the minister has actually said on one or two occasions , all citizens of the union , well it is not true that all citizens of the union will be able to vote on er June the ninth . |
| 18 | I understand about three years have elapsed since you left . ’ |
| 19 | That was during the First World War , I should be I suppose about five then . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | Then you strip it of its bark and , while the wood is still green and supple , you bend back the thin limbs and bind them in place with string , When you 've done that you have to leave it on a drying rack above the fire for … oh , I suppose about three months . |
| 22 | ‘ I may be 33 , but I feel about 23 , ’ he confesses . |
| 23 | ‘ I know I am only 20 , but some days I feel about 30 so much has happened to me . ’ |
| 24 | so anything little something like changing the pump , you know I pay about two hundred pound plus his fucking labour . |
| 25 | I mean if you go it 's normally I chat about two lectures on that and you give lots of examples . |
| 26 | I do about three hundred sit-ups a day and it still refuses to firm up , but what else can I do ? |
| 27 | There was a missing aircraft report issued , I think about 8 days after he actually went down . |
| 28 | I think about eight o'clock in the evening at home . |
| 29 | The last time they were altered was I think about nineteen seventy nine or nineteen eighty one . |
| 30 | Each step you see was promotion and er I think about nineteen fifty five , we started about nineteen fifty five aye after about seven years . |