Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was an engineer and erm he he was he made co , he worked on conveyers and things and then he changed his occupation became a civil servant and he worked at the Admiralty down on Templefields until it closed about ten years , cos my husband has been retired about five years now . |
| 2 | The Nuffield has been treating about two and a half thousand routine cases every year . |
| 3 | The company has been making about 300,000 16Ms a month and NEC said that figure will easily climb higher than 2m chips a month with added production from the California factory and a new facility under construction in Japan . |
| 4 | They 'd been married about four years now , and while their apartment was n't exactly a centre of domesticity , it was a Mecca for all kinds of zany characters who had something interesting to offer . |
| 5 | He 'd been married about two months when he went to bed one night and woke up the next morning and he was back in the field and 17 again . |
| 6 | Because that way it stays on if you do it the other way it 'll drop off it 's as simple as that , okay , cover the pad and as you spiral up the arm all you need to do is to cover about two thirds of what you 've just done before , just like a spiral , you find the bandages , the more you use those roller bandages of yours the worse they get to control because they lose their , you know , nice and stretchiness , so you just do , cover up the pad at the top , tie always on the top of the arm never underneath here . |
| 7 | According to this the picture must have been painted about 1588 , with which the style and the age of the sitter agree . |
| 8 | The whole must have been rewritten about five times . |
| 9 | And neighbour Violet Miller said : ‘ He must have been doing about 90 miles an hour . |
| 10 | A youth who led the horses for hauling was paid about two thirds of this rate . |
| 11 | In Europe the only flows of any consequence occur on small volcanic islands in the Mediterranean , the most famous of all being those on the island of Lipari , which are thought to have been erupted about 1,400 years ago . |
| 12 | The earliest French works now accepted as fabliaux date from the last decade of the twelfth century and the latest seem to have been composed about 150 years later , somewhere around 1340 . |
| 13 | Thomas Garvine ( possibly an early version of the surnames Garven and Girvan common in Ayrshire at present ) is thought to have been born about 1685 , in or near Kilmarnock , although the Earl of Loudoun 's intervention on his behalf suggests that he may have had an Irvine valley connection . |
| 14 | The fort is believed to have been constructed about four centuries before Christ by an Iron Age Celtic society . |
| 15 | possible evidence for this view can be seen in the only surviving thirteenth-century picture of a Western water-clock , which seems to have been used about 1250 in Paris at the court of Louis IX . |
| 16 | The whole reason for the existence of finite time appears to have been to bring about that conflict of good and evil which eventually leads to the triumph of the former . |
| 17 | The former boys school is thought to have been founded about 1670 by a member of the Boynton family . |
| 18 | It was a very sound brick structure and had been built about 1868 but it had the notorious reputation of being called ‘ Lover 's Leap ’ , no doubt due to the fact that several suicide attempts had been made from its high parapet , most of them fatal . |
| 19 | A rough fireplace surrounded by stones had been built about two metres in front of it , and grey ash fitted the centre of the ring . |
| 20 | The police said that a telephone warning had been received about 30 minutes before the explosion but the caller had been " deliberately misleading " about the location of the bomb . |
| 21 | Deceased 's father , with Thomas Hawkswell [ sic ] set out as a search party , and eventually traced the ‘ footings ’ of the missing man … to the old Groove house , and found the lifeless body of young Brown lying just outside the dilapidated building , with his faithful dog watching over the remains of its departed master … the deceased had been married about nine months but he , however , resided with his father at Blackton , while his wife lived with her mother at Bowes , pending their securing a farm and home to themselves , a consummation well within sight at the time of this untoward happening — this mysterious interposition , which surely intimates eternity to man … ‘ |
| 22 | The mine in the gill had been established about 5 years but it is very likely that it would have been an old working re-opened . |
| 23 | To the point where the tour had been cancelled about four times . |
| 24 | The tour had been cancelled about four times . |
| 25 | We have n't got to the reselling stage with these yet because we 've been going about six months so the first resale is eighteen months away . |
| 26 | It 's been a hectic schedule , because for the last 20 years I 've been playing about 300 gigs a year , including trips to the Northern Territories and the South West . ’ |
| 27 | All seven have full-time jobs but all have been averaging about 50 miles a week in training recently . |
| 28 | Zoned fares have been pitched about five per cent higher than BR 's , ranging from a minimum 70p standard single to a £4.90 return , with the furthest-flung commuters paying £729 for an annual season ticket . |
| 29 | Er but that 's been taking about six years now |
| 30 | It 's been done , it 's been done about two weeks |