Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hardly surprising that , after what he had witnessed , he should set about some slaughter of his own . |
| 2 | He must have about ten . |
| 3 | no it was five , he said he 'll give about five hundred and |
| 4 | So he 'll arrive about twenty to , quarter to eight , and he just gets dropped off . |
| 5 | And so he decided he could get about three caravans on the the price that my bungalow was occupying . |
| 6 | Of course , he was probably just a smoothie , so suave and slick that he could keep about three million women on the line at once . |
| 7 | Where one lot would be the hare he 'd start about ten minutes before . |
| 8 | He 'd say about four : ‘ We 'll fire the oven . ’ |
| 9 | This guy was great though we met in Ireland cos he was erm he used to own about three or four supermarkets , er small chains and he just one day , he 's about he 's about fifty eight , sixty now and one day he said about five years ago he just got fed up and just walked out . |
| 10 | If the Hinkley C power station was built he would lose about 150 acres of his best land . |