Example sentences of "[vb past] it about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took the hand-brake off and just moved it about thirty yards . |
| 2 | Then he screwed up the bag and threw it about two feet away . |
| 3 | It set off in pursuit of the Capri , but lost it about five miles away , outside the town of Forth in Lanarkshire . |
| 4 | And I started it about fifteen years later ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When he surfaced he saw it about ten metres away . |
| 7 | When I met the Association of British Insurers about six months ago , it was reluctant to take a collective view , but when I met it about two months ago , its views had changed considerably , because the claims paid by insurers rose by 46 per cent . |
| 8 | I only got it about 6 years ago , but the badge is the smiley or ‘ penis ’ ( smiley penis ! ? ! ) . |
| 9 | ‘ I bought it about two years ago . |
| 10 | We got a big one where erm , sort of , it 's really cold , and so we keep erm , the longest dates and everything erm , that we do n't need immediately , and then , we got the fridge/freezer , we got the freezer in the stock-room , which is ours , we we just bought it , wh , my parents bought it about three years ago , for ourselves . |
| 11 | Did it about five years ago |
| 12 | Won it about six times . |