Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't go to my father 's funeral and Mum did n't speak to me for about a year . |
| 2 | She studied me for about half a minute , then rearranged some of the knick-knacks on her stall . |
| 3 | Then he stared at the phone rather than me for about a minute until the door opened . |
| 4 | And he stayed with me for about half an hour looking after me . |
| 5 | yesterday right in the park and he hugged me for about ten years . |
| 6 | Cos he came round the next week and talked to me , he had a quick chat with me for about three hours ! |
| 7 | Shape the mixture into smallish hamburgers in the palm of your hands and , turning them once , grill them for about 5-7 minutes depending on how rare you like the meat . |
| 8 | Outgoing ministers may buy them for about £75 , but the boxes must be fitted with new locks to preserve the secret of their mechanisms . |
| 9 | People wanted to be the next model to sit and she 'd chat to them for about an hour and draw , and they 'd get a picture at the end of the session , just like you get in the street . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ At the first sign of the housing collapse , we brought in Coopers & Lybrand and worked with them for about a year . |
| 11 | I was doing chequebooks and cards , and I had a very good run on them for about four months , but what with taking drugs and that I collapsed one time when I was working out on the street . |
| 12 | Leave both glasses in the same place and keep an eye on them for about half an hour . |
| 13 | Erm , and I worked for them for about twelve or thirteen years , I suppose , trolling around sout south of England . |
| 14 | He says he worked with them for about seven months . |
| 15 | You 're only , I think you 're only supposed to use them for a , a few months , I 've been using them for about three years . |
| 16 | See those are cheap sets we can probably buy them for about twelve quid apiece could n't we ? |
| 17 | The Commission calculates , moreover , that the job of cross-checking between the customs departments of each member state into the validity of traders ' declarations would mean an exchange in electronic mail between them of about 20,000 million characters a year . |
| 18 | When the Secretary of State was enjoying himself for about 10 minutes claiming that a large number of us supported CND , he offered some rays of hope and sunshine that I had not seen for some months . |
| 19 | The trip is the final link in a recycling programme which in about 18 months ‘ time is expected to earn the Bank £54,000 a year . |
| 20 | they 're saying that their fixing figures by not putting people on the waiting list so the waiting lists are shorter , because they 're putting , not , they 're saying that to people we ca n't treat you for about two years so I 'm not going to put you on the list at the moment , so they 're , cooking the books , that 's what they reckon |
| 21 | A mate of mine he says he wo n't tell you for about three or four years . |
| 22 | I can get if for you for about three pounds for the pure crystals . |
| 23 | Should I collect you at about eleven , then ? |
| 24 | Yeah if you , if you 're coming up you dare n't stop the driver and there 's things hurtling at ya , there 's kids on sledges coming at you at about fifteen miles an hour and you 'll have to try and drive around them and |
| 25 | In this way one can simplify the number of subproblems considerably and one can group them into about eight stages , each of which has about six sub-problems , and this becomes humanly comprehensible . |
| 26 | So if I can get something for about five five ton . |
| 27 | The Levin came in two finishes : mine was a sort of toffee sunburst , and then there was a blonde one for about £10 more , presumably because the better grained wood went into blondes . |
| 28 | Two of the women who were moved up with me had already been in prison , one for about a year , one for about eight months , so they knew what to expect . |
| 29 | Two of the women who were moved up with me had already been in prison , one for about a year , one for about eight months , so they knew what to expect . |
| 30 | So anyway er I mean being a keen motorcyclist I borrowed a Moto Guzzi last year , you know a big V twin , beautiful bike , I went up into Derbyshire and had a you know ride on it , and thought well that 's not bad , see I 've always had British bikes , and I think I might g I might get one of those , so I came back in the house put the helmet down and said hey that Guzzi 's not bad , I could get a decent one for about two thousand you know about nineteen eighty , you know nice Le Mans Two . |