Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think Amy phoned me about seven last night . ’ |
| 2 | They stopped them about nineteen fifty nine , something like that . |
| 3 | I phoned you about three times |
| 4 | Springbok ban cost him about 50 caps but at 34 still quick and dangerous . |
| 5 | He took the hand-brake off and just moved it about thirty yards . |
| 6 | We mentioned a small acquisition in Japan last year , medi on the medical side of Longman , P P S K K it cost us about four million pounds and we were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year pleased to say that its er , its profit looks like getting to a million pounds by the year end . |
| 7 | He told me about two photographers who used to work together . |
| 8 | You told me about six times ! |
| 9 | No , I 've been saying they booked me about two months ago and I 've been saying that they have a deposit |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I woke her about ten . |
| 12 | Altogether , she probably showed me about twelve to fifteen works , and she asked , ‘ George Dionisovich , tell me quite honestly , do you really like them ? ’ |
| 13 | Then he screwed up the bag and threw it about two feet away . |
| 14 | I had seen only one other porno film before , a miserable five-minute affair in grainy black and white in Tangiers , and what surprised me about two of the three films was the quality of the finished product . |
| 15 | C. She never bossed me about half as much as you do . |
| 16 | ‘ They fed us about five times on the plane , ’ he said . |
| 17 | ‘ The hospital called me about half an hour ago , ’ Cowley said , and after a brief pause , ‘ Doyle regained consciousness at four this afternoon . |
| 18 | Antonia could be very foul-mouthed and rang me about 20 times , sometimes in tears , saying ‘ that bastard has n't left his wife yet ’ . ’ |
| 19 | It set off in pursuit of the Capri , but lost it about five miles away , outside the town of Forth in Lanarkshire . |
| 20 | And I started it about fifteen years later ! |
| 21 | This is a , a helpful and reciprocal relationship because our students , who are in our Postgraduate Certificate of Education course , that 's university graduates who are training to be teachers , do go out into schools in this area and do their teaching practice in those schools in a rather interesting way and we developed a scheme , here in Sussex , which was quite novel when we started it about ten years ago . |
| 22 | Wickham asked her about two aspects : the whereabouts of her father 's list of computer codes and the ownership of the keys which had been loaned to Ruby Dobby . |
| 23 | I waited and waited for him at the points and eventually met him about three or four o'clock in the morning for the first time . |
| 24 | As we ate , I asked him about 45 Marine Commando casualties since the landing . |
| 25 | It takes at least five Americans to write a book erm they 're all multi- authored volumes erm for , for most of your purposes , for almost all your purposes er and certainly for basic reading for , for lectures and , and tutorials it really does n't matter which one you read erm there are , I mean there are in the library I think the last time I counted them about twenty five or thirty general textbooks on American politics , it does n't really matter er which one you read . |
| 26 | get all these programmes for some reason , somebody allowed for it when they put the system in , mind you still have to check it I suppose but checked through it , tested it , took me about five minutes , still a minimum charge of an hour |
| 27 | And of Thompson , he added : ‘ It took me about two years to buy Thompson from Slough . |
| 28 | It took me about two weeks to catch up with the loss . |
| 29 | It took me about six months to even be able to hear what he 'd done ; I just could n't relate to it because I had so many preconceptions about what I thought it should be . |
| 30 | Well one of the great lessons of life is of course you ca n't have everything you want all at the same time it took me about sixty years to learn that . |