Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] for about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , and I worked for them for about twelve or thirteen years , I suppose , trolling around sout south of England . |
| 2 | And I was chairman of it for about six years or so before the council broke up . |
| 3 | The purchase of a tractor was often part-financed by the forest which made use of it for about half the year . |
| 4 | And he stayed with me for about half an hour looking after me . |
| 5 | Cos he came round the next week and talked to me , he had a quick chat with me for about three hours ! |
| 6 | He says he worked with them for about seven months . |
| 7 | Emma went out with him for about two months |
| 8 | We were doubtful as to whether Owen would lie still long enough for a back massage , but he surprised us by putting up with it for about ten minutes . |
| 9 | He put it on and walked round with it for about ten minutes before we had the nerve to say anything to him . |
| 10 | When applying a varnish , the brush should be dipped into it for about one-third of the length of the bristles and then , holding the brush in a similar way to a pencil , with the fingers holding the metal ferrule and the handle resting between the thumb and first finger , spread the varnish quickly and evenly over a small area . |
| 11 | One evening , when Sorrel had been with us for about five years , Sally and I got ready to take her for her usual walk . |
| 12 | Wally , Wally I 'm sorry to interrupt you , colleagues , you 're starting to babble a bit , I know you all want to get to the European Fair and the wine and the cheese and all that sort of thing just bear with us for about ten minutes . |
| 13 | People were interested in it for about five minutes . |
| 14 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 15 | I was doing chequebooks and cards , and I had a very good run on them for about four months , but what with taking drugs and that I collapsed one time when I was working out on the street . |
| 16 | Leave both glasses in the same place and keep an eye on them for about half an hour . |
| 17 | I must have been chatting to him for about 20 minutes and he told me he 'd needed an urgent lift . |
| 18 | He rings you up and goes he goes hello it 's Jonathan and you go oh right hello Jonathan and he does n't say anything so you talk to him for about half an hour or so and then you go alright Jonathan , better go , you know and then he goes no no I 've got something to tell you and you go oh alright what is it then and he goes I ca n't remember it man , just talk to me for a bit longer and I 'll remember it then and it goes on like that for hours and hours and it 's so boring . |
| 19 | And she 'd been talking to him for about half an hour and well er her son had come up |
| 20 | I were talking to her for about half an hour . |
| 21 | It rocks you backwards and forwards and is supposed to stimulate the endorphins in your brain , helping to boost thinking power It did n't — but then I was only on it for about 10 minutes before I started feeling sick . |
| 22 | I went up to him and gushed at him for about twenty minutes , told him we were making an album , asked him to sing on it and he said , ‘ Sure . ’ |
| 23 | And he said , he said , he said it 's n he said , he goes to me , he looks at it for about five minutes and goes it 'll do , it 'll do . |