Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] about [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she made me feel about two inches high |
| 2 | ‘ Dali made me look about fifteen years older than I was : I grew into that picture ! |
| 3 | Passed me test about twelve years ago . |
| 4 | I did n't know you said about twenty past . |
| 5 | ‘ Good ! ’ he commented briefly , and then , to her immense surprise , ‘ I suggest we dine about eight , which … ’ |
| 6 | They say it takes about three weeks for a cure to work , and most Baden packages are based on this , although some are streamlined to 14 days . |
| 7 | Oh about erm , let me see about ten years ago . |
| 8 | And I suppose they go along about I do n't expect they do about six miles an hour . |
| 9 | Erm so you probably think , oh he 's got it now , you 've done two or three of them , let him do about ten of them , what 's six add one ? |
| 10 | The Halifax says it has about 505,000 Tessa account holders , with an average first-year balance of £2,700 , giving a total of around £1.4bn . |
| 11 | And she 'd I think she had about eight , over over a period of years you know . |
| 12 | But into your fifth year and you were supposed to be really you know , fully fledged but I mean you hade about four years to serve . |
| 13 | Yeah but I mean she looks about fifty five to me . |
| 14 | Chris reckons she put about 650 letters through the doors of her neighbourhood , but had few replies . |
| 15 | Er yes I think they did but er we reckoned we lost about eight hundred and fifty pounds worth of gear . |
| 16 | On average these people claimed they spent about six hours a week on such work , and this was equivalent to about 400,000 full-time workers . |
| 17 | The analyst reckons they have about 4 per cent of the market . |
| 18 | And the factory where I work I should think we took about fourteen of the men at this factory . |
| 19 | Today I mean they , I mean when you take , years and years ago when there used to be man handling everything same as timber , I mean we had about three hundred dockers then . |
| 20 | Before Rachel was born I bought about six stretchsuits , and I 've just been given 12 more but I have n't had to spend much on her clothes yet because I 've had so many presents . |
| 21 | I remember I bought about 100 copies of it and sent it to various agents , bookers , and media . |
| 22 | so anything little something like changing the pump , you know I pay about two hundred pound plus his fucking labour . |
| 23 | When William Marshal was dying a clerk tried to persuade him to sell about eighty fine robes in order to spend the money for the salvation of his soul . |
| 24 | Tell him to ring about seven and we 'll fix a place for eats . |
| 25 | erm and I know they sold about five or six tickets at least next week |
| 26 | It 's called the Tripyer Shield and it 's a local amateur thing Eccles and District and to win it it 's like winning the F A Cup and this G M B team that we started we lost about three or four matches and we started losing the players , so when you do n't lock the doors and you 'd end up with about seven players and you 'd think is it worth bothering ? |
| 27 | The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary lists it originating about 1602 . |
| 28 | His cynical taunt made her feel about fourteen . |
| 29 | She did something to a man : made him feel about six , and caught with a warm jam puff from the kitchen table . |
| 30 | It made him look about seventeen . |