Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] about three " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He would n't let me say something and I tried about three times and in the end I just kept talking , |
| 2 | And I think about three technical apprentices . |
| 3 | yep , and we developed theo that business here in fact in Suffolk , we were the very first Fire Brigade to , to do it in the seventies , er our own workshops made them erm the units and are now still making them , and the ideas were original ideas on , on , on the equipment and we made about three or four in , in when I retired and I think they made several others now like canteen vans , and erm breathing apparatus , er and so on . |
| 4 | And then we changed things like the name because we found somebody 's name in all these words , somebody , and we just sellotaped it down , and at the end when we were running out of time , and we did about three times have a look at the time , we did change the script slightly to fit the words that we 'd found so we had responsibilities instead of , I do n't know what it was , but instead of another words , just because we 'd found it . |
| 5 | it 's not just like going going on a bus and but erm my daughter 's very generous and seeing that we we get to her and we spend about three months with her . |
| 6 | Er , I 've had a word with Jeremy about decorating , oh Florrie I must apologise I did try to ring you , I think I managed to get everybody else , erm but you were n't there , in and then I , I left it I regret to say , erm but we thought perhaps we ought to have the kitchen re-decorated and I 've had a word with Jereminy , Jereminy , Jeremy and he says about two hundred pounds and I did get permission from some of you and I 've gone ahead and asked him to do it and he said about three weeks , but before we can have that done , in the meantime , the roof leaked again out in the kitchen Erm , so I 've had a word with Peter who was going on holiday and he should be home this week and he said he will look at it as soon as he 's home , so I 'll give him a ring , I 'll try tomorrow night , I 'm out tonight , I 'll try and give him a ring tomorrow . |
| 7 | But it costs about three hundred pounds . |