Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Tides carrying us , we 're still making about four and a half knots over the ground . |
| 2 | We 're , we 're currently running about fifteen minutes late . |
| 3 | Cos there were we were only getting about five bob a week aye . |
| 4 | So that 's basically lost about five hundred quid a set |
| 5 | It has been found , however , that most people only use about half their breathing potential which means the brain is only receiving about half its quota of oxygen . |
| 6 | Erm the hearth , the hall with the original floor is still preserved about nine inches down underneath a layer of three inches of sand to preserve it . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's the best thing about Mark ; he may have scored 28 goals himself , but he 's probably created about half of our goals entirely , ’ says his Ibrox team-mate John Brown . |
| 8 | The introduction of the microcomputer , and in particular the BBC range , is also bringing about fundamental change and development within the curriculum . |
| 9 | The Hotel Des Etrangers is centrally located about 250 yards from the Piazzo Colombo and a few minutes walk from the Via Matteotti . |
| 10 | Yeah is currently running about six vacancies light . |
| 11 | He said , well I only live next door you know in a , in a village school quite obviously they all lived nearby and he was only gone about two or three minutes and he came back and once again , the young lady will know , but erm men might not know , I know , skirt hangers , you know skirt hangers , they 're on springs are n't they ? |
| 12 | I had to go in the office every Friday night and I was only earning about two pounds seventeen and six a week and they use and Deputy Harbourmaster , Captain , he say , how much you earned this week he say , three pound , I 'm asking you four he say , well they 'd take it off you and er you 'd be paying it now , takes about six months , and he old Harbourmaster see you about the quay he said . |
| 13 | Well , actually , looking at the erm , premiums in the book , and it worked out that the total I was paying out in endowments , if I got the same level of cover under the protected savings plan , over twenty five years with living assurance , it was , it was only working about seven pound more , you know , |
| 14 | Looking at what the examples given by Which are concerned the solicitor was only charging about thirty percent of what the bank would . |
| 15 | It was only demolished about eighteen , nineteen seventy . |
| 16 | Well who was just dreaming about two ! |
| 17 | or , Thomas ( c. 1490–1555 ) , king 's printer under Henry VIII , was probably born about 1490 , since in his earliest testimony , under the surname Bercula , he named himself as printer and servant to John Rastell [ q.v. ] during the latter 's unsuccessful attempt to sail to the new world in 1517 . |
| 18 | which was probably written about twenty or thirty years ago but recognised that his own congregations would be very suspicious of them ! |
| 19 | He was a good PTI , he made PT fun and did n't just stick to PT and running — but there was no messing about either and he doubled them across the barracks to the football pitch , Where in the next half hour they worked as hard playing football as they would have done in the gymnasium . |