Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] have [be] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intense tropical heat was debilitating and Eva was n't as wise as she should have been about her health . |
| 2 | ‘ She would have been about your age , if she had lived . ’ |
| 3 | I am glad they 've approved it because it 's , it 's removed any uncertainty there might have been about the nineteen nineties , slightly disappointing that they chose to tinker with our wording here and there , but , but by and large , not too unhappy . |
| 4 | He must have been about my age , too , because he 'd been in Nagasaki when the bomb went on . |
| 5 | I told him it must 've been about the Royal Garden Party . |
| 6 | I try now to remember what that outpouring of words was about , it must have been about something . |
| 7 | I told you I sleep in that chair , did n't I ? — It must have been about midnight because I 'd just watched this film and that did n't finish until half eleven . |
| 8 | It must have been about the fourth or fifth time I went round to see him . |
| 9 | It must have been about the turn of the century the er Times newspaper ran a competition and it wa , the competition was a very simple one , difficult to answer but it was very simply put it was asking for people to write in letters and essays , and features and articles on , what was wrong with the world . |
| 10 | ‘ It could have been about anyone . |
| 11 | But it could have been about the time Ephraim disappeared . ’ |