Example sentences of "i have [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd done about four sitcoms one after the other , and I was n't getting much time to do theatre which I really wanted to do . |
| 2 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 3 | ‘ And after about six months of work I 'd got about ten finished tracks together , and to be honest , they sounded great ! |
| 4 | At the end of all this I had lost about two stones and for the first time in my life , felt very nervy . |
| 5 | Was happily pottering about there , did my own thing , I had to open about nine cards when I got home , I did n't think at all |
| 6 | I had to wait about ten minutes while he was interviewing someone in connection with a current case , and then I was taken to his room . |
| 7 | ‘ By this time I had waited about 15 minutes hanging on the phone and the clerk had not confirmed any booking . ’ |
| 8 | I had given about half of the statement to a copy stenographer by telephone ( a normal procedure ) when a man with a southern or midland English accent intervened . |
| 9 | I had walked about five hundred yards and yet only in this one spot , about as big in area as my dining table , had the normally silty bottom been cleared by the actions of the fish and clearly exposing masses of broken mussel shell fragments against which the zander stood out very boldly . |
| 10 | I had read about 1947 . |
| 11 | I had to travel about five miles on the bypass , and as the mini was elderly used the slow lane , to be sandwiched between a milk lorry ahead and a crowded estate-car , roughly as old as the mini , behind . |
| 12 | The legs started trembling and cramping à la Victor Meldrew and did not improve until I had sunk about six gallons of tonic water , minus gin I hasten to add . |
| 13 | And I had to walk about fifty yards to get to the van because it was it was in an area that had been partly pedestrianized . |
| 14 | I 've had a weigh in once , I 've lost about five pounds |
| 15 | So for that two hundred francs more I 've lost about eight quid . |
| 16 | I think I 've lost about half a stone so far |
| 17 | I do n't think I have seen enough of Beeny to critize/praise him ( even though I 've seen about 12 live games this year ) . |
| 18 | I 've done about fifty percent I think . |
| 19 | Oh I 've done about four , but we were having trouble with he want 's some books he likes books , but wo n't give us a clue and |
| 20 | When he when we get when I 've done about two pages guess how much he 's done ? |
| 21 | I 've done about twenty or thirty pages but that 's |
| 22 | The only way I 've managed to get carers is to put up adverts in newsagents , and I 've done that twice — And I 've had about 30 people ring up through that , and a lot of them seem pretty good … ’ |
| 23 | There 's a woman nearby I 've known about 30 years who rescues cats and we agree there are less unwanted cats about . ’ |
| 24 | I 've counted about seventeen to twenty caravans . |
| 25 | I 've learnt about 60 I suppose overall and half of them are duds naughty words or words for something completely different . |
| 26 | Yeah , I 've taken about four or five . |
| 27 | Yes , I 've used about three tapes today . |
| 28 | ‘ Actually , I 've got about fifteen guitars but I have no interest in collecting them . |
| 29 | I 've got about twelve . |
| 30 | Just sad , I 've got about eight projects . |