Example sentences of "he be [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When you consider his international appearances and cup matches too , it means he 's played about 800 matches . |
| 2 | Over the next five years he was moved about 20 times . |
| 3 | This is largely because he was mistaken about two of his standard candles : his cepheid variables had characteristics somewhat different from those he assumed , and some of his brightest ‘ stars ’ were actually highly luminous bodies of ionised hydrogen . |
| 4 | He was flying about 20 minutes behind the Aero Club 's chief instructor when he radioed to Newcastle Airport air traffic control that he was descending to below 1,000 feet because of thick fog . |
| 5 | He was thinking about twenty hours a day locked up with him . |
| 6 | He was apprenticed about 1602 to the London engraver and instrument-maker Charles Whitwell , with whom he claimed to have served nine years by the time of Whitwell 's death in 1611 . |
| 7 | I used to tell him off for riding a bike without a light — summonsed him in the end and he was fined about ten bob . |
| 8 | ‘ Right , and he was admitted about two hours ago . ’ |
| 9 | He does , he was , he was doing about forty five were n't he ? |
| 10 | Oh well he he he had to take on a oh he could easily afford it because he was paid about five shillings in the year . |
| 11 | Turning round she saw sunlight gleaming on fair hair and brown skin , the flash of blue from his shirt ; he was standing about thirty feet away , watching . |
| 12 | He was aged about fifty , with greying hair . |