Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eagerly I set about to free it from its rubble prison . |
| 2 | So then if suddenly I have about a tenth of them entries . |
| 3 | So I brought about twenty-two earthquakes |
| 4 | And er the firm payed me er four shilling , a week , and er the man I was working with , he he , the rest of it was taken out of his er his er wage packet er and put into mine , and so I got about eleven and sixpence a week . |
| 5 | So I set about a solution which has led to healthy plants which remain where I want them — despite being planted in very high flow undergravel filters . |
| 6 | So I sprinkle about three strands of cheese . |
| 7 | So with it being another student union and it being like a conference in aid of the homeless and that , I did n't really want to sort of give them a load of grief so I suggested about sixty pounds . |
| 8 | You get paid for playing er , you do n't ha or you have very few scores , you do n't have line-outs and basically you tackle about a hundred million times a game . |
| 9 | So she leaves about ten she 'll be here some time after ten wo n't she ? |
| 10 | So you get about five or six garments in width across there . |
| 11 | So we set about putting a stop to it . |
| 12 | So we came about for the last time , since we were now south of the entrance , and motorsailed north , a little further off , to give the rock a good clearance . |
| 13 | So we have about forty people in the morning and about sixty people in the evening . |
| 14 | So they get about twelve thirteen hundred . |
| 15 | So they set about it , with the help of a co-op development agency , which provided them with management services . |
| 16 | Together they provide about 60 per cent of the housing for single people and almost a quarter of all wheelchair access dwellings . |
| 17 | So he hung about in a lonely spot one night , just where the other fellow was due to pass by — and well , Bob 's your uncle , as you so succinctly put it . |
| 18 | I er I phoned him up to let him know I was going in and he 's not too far away you see so asked him if he 'd like to pop in so he did about half eleven . |
| 19 | And so it came about that while the Operational Staffs of the three Service Ministries were grappling with the Suez crisis of 1956 , which entailed increasing the Defence effort and calling up reservists to fill gaps in the order of battle for the contingency plan Musketeer , they were answering questions posed by the Hull Committee about the implications of halving Service manpower by April 1960 or 1961 at the very latest ! |
| 20 | ‘ So wonderfully pleased and satisfied ’ was he with it that , as Molyneux wrote to Locke , ‘ he has ordered it to be read by the Batchelors in the College , and strictly examines them in their progress therein ’ ; and so it came about that Locke 's masterpiece was on the curriculum which faced George Berkeley , the subject of the next chapter , when he entered Trinity as a student in 1700 . |
| 21 | So it came about that there was a vacancy for a rigger in No 70 Squadron , Hinaidi , and off to the Canal Zone , Egypt , I sped to learn to fly . |
| 22 | And so it comes about , at the end of all the wanderings , that we find under one roof , in decaying Echo Street , that strangest of couples , Molly and Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedalus . |
| 23 | The difficulty presented by this use is that , to take ( 11 ) as an example , the seeing already exists at the moment of speech , at the moment of being glad , and , in fact , is apparently what brought about the gladness , hence Jespersen 's term . |
| 24 | In any case , there are earthier explanations , such as the changes in sea level favoured by Newell ( 1963 and 1967 ) , or changes in climate ( perhaps themselves brought about by changes in the earth 's magnetism ) which are favoured by many authors . |
| 25 | So what happened about time and a half ? |
| 26 | At least tonight I have about 45 minutes in which to speak , and whether I take that much time will depend on how we get on . |
| 27 | I mean if you go it 's normally I chat about two lectures on that and you give lots of examples . |
| 28 | We are due to review the morning service pattern at the church meeting on December 9th , although it is difficult to imagine how we could ever revert to a single service since already we have about 500 adults and children attending the two services ! |
| 29 | Normally it takes about six days to arrange a visit , even if you cable both ways . |
| 30 | Thus it came about that Joan de Warenne , as closely resembling her young mistress as made no difference , was conducted to the Tower of London — and Alianor Woodville 's apartments . |