Example sentences of "[subord] she [was/were] about [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her parents had done birthday parties on a grand scale until she was about thirteen . |
| 2 | Bridget concealed her pregnancy from everybody until she was about four months when she told her boyfriend , who was not the baby 's father . |
| 3 | up until she was about four months old . |
| 4 | Lisa , who did n't tell anyone until she was about eight months pregnant said : |
| 5 | She began to get smaller at once and , very carefully , she ate first from one hand , then from the other , until she was about twenty-five centimetres high . |
| 6 | Without it doctors said she 'd only live till she was about eleven or twelve . |
| 7 | till she was about twelve she was quite . |
| 8 | and she said well we 've got , for instance , one of my favourite patience is the girl of er , I think she 's nineteen , and er , she 's in their because her father had raped her since she was about eight , when she was sixteen she killed him , well I said well I think she should have been given a medal . |
| 9 | She has been going to therapy since she was about two . ’ |
| 10 | Mary was born in the Netherlands and has been fascinated by heraldry since she was about 11 . |
| 11 | There was a stage , when she was about thirteen , when I think Shanti had what psychologists would term an identity crisis . |
| 12 | After that she went into service and there she stayed until , when she was about twenty-two years of age , her brother came to tell her he was married and to ask her if she would leave her employer and come to look after his wife who was expecting a baby . |
| 13 | When she was about fifty metres away from the building she heard some people behind her , but she did not stop . |
| 14 | Because my elder sister she left home when she was about sixteen I think , she went erm into she was working there as a matron 's maid . |
| 15 | Elsie lived but we know very little about her beyond a few basic facts : she married an older man who was rather irascible and treated her badly ; she disappeared in mysterious circumstances when she was about twenty-six ; her body was discovered a year ago on the bed of the filled-in Loch Craig . |
| 16 | Eventually it was he who told her mother when she was about eight months pregnant : " We 'd been planning it for ages to tell them but we had n't had the nerve to get round to it . |
| 17 | Q My two-year-old mongrel bitch was spayed after her first season — when she was about six months old . |
| 18 | Sheila stayed in one until her daughter was born and adopted ; Denise left London to live in the West Country on her own , and organised a place in one for herself and her eight-week-old baby ; and Lisa went into one when she was about six months pregnant . |
| 19 | But when she was about six weeks old things got a bit more serious . |
| 20 | ONCE WHEN SHE WAS ABOUT five she had been separated from her mother in a department store . |
| 21 | Her family had come to Bradford when she was about fourteen . |
| 22 | Mary had begun to visit her regularly on Friday mornings — with Mr Fenton 's express approval and the Christian support of her mother — when she was about fourteen — at about the time her father had begun to use her in the Fish and Budworth had turned up to sketch his mischief . |
| 23 | When she was about twenty , she worked in an office , one of two women among about thirty men . |
| 24 | When she was about twenty . |
| 25 | Shanti has told me that when she was about seven , she used to tell the children at school that she was really the daughter of an Indian princess , and used to pretend to talk in an Indian language ! |
| 26 | When she was about ten months old , baby Sylvia was lying in her cot in the house while her mother was busy in the kitchen . |
| 27 | When she was about ten she had even started to plant flowers outside it . |
| 28 | Her mind had set irrevocably into middle age when she was about ten . |
| 29 | ‘ I asked Jaggers to find a little girl for me to adopt , and he brought Estella here , when she was about three . ’ |
| 30 | When she was about three months pregnant , and feeling totally rejected by everyone , she got into a very depressed state , staying in her room for several days without moving , wondering if this was what it was like to be dead . |