Example sentences of "have be about [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , he 's , he 's into ev oh it must 've been about six or eight weeks ago he started saying a couple of things and I thought oh he 's coming now , but it stopped I think I got excited when he started saying dark , but that 's as far as it got , int it ? |
| 2 | The age of the full-time judiciary has remained constant over many years : the average on appointment has been about fifty-two or -three and the average of all those in office has been about sixty . |
| 3 | Aye it 'd been about twenty or thirty . |
| 4 | it must have been about four or five o'clock in morning , and now we never hear any traffic . |
| 5 | When I was about eleven , he must have been about fourteen or fifteen , and he decided to take up the concert flute — so he suggested that instead of us staying on tin whistles , we should all take up different instruments . |
| 6 | Amir and Mansur must have been about eight and ten years old . |
| 7 | ERICK : ‘ I must have been about 18 and he was a DJ in a local nightclub . |
| 8 | I must have been about six or seven at this time . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ We would have been about 13 and I was playing for South London district and Ian was in the Blackheath team , which also had Paul Elliott in it . |
| 10 | ‘ When they had that first trouble , Anna finding out about the prince and carrying on as if it were the end of the world , Constanza must have been about five or six ; she does n't even remember ; Mena does , every minute of it . |
| 11 | He must have been about nineteen and , let me tell you , that was the best I ever heard him play . |
| 12 | There must have been about nine or ten of them — all men except for one woman — and they tried to say it took all of them to restrain me . |
| 13 | He must have been about seventeen and was so-pale and thin he looked as if a gust of wind might blow him away . |
| 14 | There must have been about forty or fifty of them . |
| 15 | ‘ She must have been about three or four months ’ pregnant , ’ said Preston , ‘ only it did n't show . ’ |
| 16 | for Apple Macintosh Computers erm it must have been about three or four years ago . |
| 17 | I would judge him to have been about thirty-seven or eight . |
| 18 | Only a little further up the social scale , another quarter or more of the rural inhabitants had tenements varying in size up to a yardland , which in Cambridgeshire seems to have been about 30 and 40 acres . |
| 19 | That is um in Burstow 's clinical practice she reckons that um sometimes people say something along the lines of well well um perhaps it was my fault , I was flirting with him , and things like that it and these are people who maybe have been about five or six when the abuse has happened and so y'know do five or six year olds flirt ? |
| 20 | I tell you what there 's been about four or five different types of that |