Example sentences of "[pron] 're about " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you do your first beat , you 're walking with the sergeant and suddenly a voice will call out , ‘ Where are you going , son ? ’ and you 're about ten yards ahead . |
| 2 | Unless you 're about forty-five and come from Bradford or Stepney and already have about nine children who 've brought you to recognise your oppression , there 's a big down on pregnancy . ’ |
| 3 | Lean over the steam so you 're about 12 inches away from the water . |
| 4 | You ca n't be Walter until you 're about seventy-five in my view . |
| 5 | I went to school at ordinary time from as a kid and then up to till you 're about eight years old , then from eight years eight , nine , then you , I went to for about last four years . |
| 6 | And you reckon we 're we 're four per cent you 're about four per cent below . |
| 7 | But when you 've moved a five-bedroomed house which has got a grand piano in it as well , and you 're about twenty to thirty foot at the back and all you can see is furniture furniture furniture furniture furniture , you can imagine as you go on you 're thinking God will we ever get to this ? |
| 8 | no you 're about five two , five three , who 's taller ? , who 's taller ? |
| 9 | yeah , but look Hayley 's feet , you 're about five two |
| 10 | When we talk about how camp they are now — Fred considers that on the official pop campness scale ‘ out of ten we 're about eight : Erasure are ten ’ — the non-singing brother also explains that there was no other way . |
| 11 | ‘ Anyway , we 're about even . |
| 12 | Erm essential for life , we 're about two thirds water , it ll depends depending on which book you read how much of us is water , but erm Do n't forget that it 's an incredible solvent , water . |
| 13 | We had 80 per cent occupancy over the entire year , yet we 're about 25 per cent down on budget for those occupancy figures . ’ |
| 14 | We 're about half-way down the mugs when we hear the front door go and someone on the stairs . |
| 15 | You make it sound as if we 're about eighty . |
| 16 | Colleagues , that in fact concludes the morning 's business , we 're about twelve minutes ahead of time . |
| 17 | We 're about ten miles further upstream . ’ |
| 18 | Er few problems with the job before we started or during the job er , come back to us for a six so far so we have to What we will do is drop them down and Er another problem with the job is we 're about three week 's behind er arranged for them to come in on Monday . |
| 19 | We 're about right I think are n't we ? |
| 20 | So you know we 're about two hundred miles from London , so we 're about , only about two thirds of the way from London to Penzance . |
| 21 | We 're about half way through the process at the moment , and as of today , it does depend which train she travelled on from Oxford as to whether it 's actually been converted with the disabled accommodation or whether er it 's not yet provided . |
| 22 | But really these people , and there 're about thirty other nationalities , by the way , being held , he just wants to show how tough he is , and it 's useful in the future , as now , when he wants to make a gesture . |
| 23 | Well , he 's doing it now , as I say , there 're about thirty other nationalities held in Iraqi prisons . |
| 24 | The head is made , erm , the tail , all the bits are made and eventually they , they all stick together like a kind of Lego , and the result is a new bacteria is made and this goes on until eventually the cell , there are so many inside the cell , that erm the cell just ruptures , when there 're about two hundred or so , the cell is now bulging with T four bacteria , it ruptures and releases a whole blob of new ones to start the cycle all over again . |
| 25 | Erm so there 's s I think there 're about ten major things that we discussed erm what is psychology , research methods , psychoanalytical approaches , cognitive and information approaches or approach there , perception , memory , learning behaviourism , attribution and groups . |
| 26 | ‘ They 're about twenty years too late . |
| 27 | supervision and they 're used until the head of the femur right , the head of the femur is fixed back into the socket joint and the muscles and ligaments have tightened up so that they hold the bone in place and treatment can go on until they 're about a year the consequences of not treating this condition are quite severe , the child will grow up with a very odd gait . |
| 28 | Well actually I think they 're very cheap , burglar alarms , they 're about three hundred and fifty four hundred pound . |
| 29 | And this is confusing , I mean I must admit it is confusing and even , even s writers in the psychoanalytic literature get confused by this , because sometimes they , they er do n't see that to some extent the two systems are overlapping and to some extent they 're about di slightly different things . |
| 30 | When they 're about 3 months old , staff will start the tricky procedure of trying to reintroduce the cubs back into the wild . |