Example sentences of "when he was about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One Christmas , when he was about five , I was in bed with flu . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not waiting for you , ’ shouted Dyson when he was about fifty yards away . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Herbert , too , visited Australia when he was about sixteen . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well , one year when he was about seventeen , Martin arrived to sort out my bicycle . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |