Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] be about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not big on soaps , though I was in The Newcomers for five weeks when I was about 14 or 15 . |
| 2 | ‘ I first started writing songs when I was about 14 , because I knew that the first song I 'd put down would be so crap I thought I 'd get all my ideas out of the way first , and then I 'd start getting all artistic , ’ explains Tony . |
| 3 | Well at about er when I was about eighteen , I erm I decided I 'd had enough of this er this business of three days on the three days on , and three off , in the winter , and it was about October time and I could see another winter of it . |
| 4 | Well you know the first time I went was oh I du n no , before the war you know when I was about four or five and I went to get one out I mean my parents |
| 5 | I remember when I was about thirteen and listened to that song |
| 6 | That was when I was about fourteen and then I went through a stage of listening to Al Di Meola , people like that , just trying to be a better guitarist . |
| 7 | That was when I was about fourteen and a half . |
| 8 | I started working as a caddie in 1944 when I was about eight , and I earned a penny for every year . |
| 9 | I have very clear memories of when I was about eight going to sleep every night to the pipe band practising . ’ |
| 10 | I bought some wiring and bulb fittings when I was about 11 years old — I fitted the electrics as home-made lighting — then gave my father a shock when he touched the aquarium , fused the lights , and set fire to my bedroom . |
| 11 | One early significant occasion for me was actually meeting someone in a bookshop in the Finchley Road when I was about sixteen . |
| 12 | I do n't know when it started , but my first memory of it was when I was about sixteen . |
| 13 | It was when I was about twelve I broke the front of my tooth so I I had a temporary cap put on , and it only lasted six months and came off ! |
| 14 | I remember when I was about two-and-a-half or three , they used to come in and say to her , ‘ Mrs McGuigan , we do n't want to alarm you but your son is on top of that thirty-foot pole out there , ’ and my mother would say , ‘ Oh , that 's old hat , let's hear something new . ’ |
| 15 | One very hot morning , when she was about nine years old , she woke up and saw that instead of Kamala there was a different Indian servant by her bed . |
| 16 | It all seemed to stem from a separation , a fraught time when she was about four , when her mother had been taken seriously ill with some mystery virus and whisked off into Intensive Care . |
| 17 | She was momentarily back in time to when she was about thirteen , staying up to watch the glitter and excitement that the sight of one man had brought , watching every televised re-run as the whole country had gasped and applauded a young Spaniard whose handsome arrogance and amazing equestrian skills had held them enthralled . |
| 18 | We had two or three years like that from when you was about ten until you was fourteen and that was in |
| 19 | I think , Maureen , I remember when we were about fifteen , at the last count she had forty nine first cousins ! |
| 20 | Between 1950 and 1976 from one to about 30 birds were seen annually , except in 1960 when there were about 160 , mainly in the spring . |
| 21 | It is reported that in a large printing office in the city [ which can only be R. & R. Clark ] where there are about 100 females employed , more than 70 handed in notices to strike yesterday , while correspondingly large proportions of the females employed in other firms are said to have signified their intention of going on strike , failing a settlement . |
| 22 | In in in my own family my mum and my aunt went into service you know when they were about thirteen and they used to do the most abysmal jobs for next to nothing . |
| 23 | ‘ One Christmas , when he was about five , I was in bed with flu . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not waiting for you , ’ shouted Dyson when he was about fifty yards away . |
| 25 | Hanns Ebensten , who met John when he was about fourteen and quickly became his best friend , first heard of him from one of John 's fellow pupils , Inge May , who with her mother was a lodger at the Ebensten home ( they were all German refugees ) . |
| 26 | Herbert , too , visited Australia when he was about sixteen . |
| 27 | The most explicit example is that of Thomas lord Scrope of Masham and Upsale , who inherited the title in 1476 , when he was about sixteen . |
| 28 | The most explicit example is that of Thomas lord Scrope of Masham and Upsale , who inherited the title in 1476 , when he was about sixteen . |
| 29 | Well , one year when he was about seventeen , Martin arrived to sort out my bicycle . |
| 30 | ‘ then in my next match against Switzerland I beat Heinz Gunthardt when he was about 20 in the world and that was a key win for me . ’ |