Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [vb base] about [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Good ! ’ he commented briefly , and then , to her immense surprise , ‘ I suggest we dine about eight , which … ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | so anything little something like changing the pump , you know I pay about two hundred pound plus his fucking labour . |
| 4 | On average I think we get about 15 care assistants to each meeting . ’ |
| 5 | See they used to get the , they used t what they call they used to report for work at say quarter past seven in the morning and then they be at work at half past seven , but now of course they do n't now , they , I think they start about eight o'clock now . |
| 6 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 7 | But they spen they spend a lot of money on , on lights and they , I mean they they spend they spend about seven hours in here on a Friday just doing the lights and special effects and |