Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you tell me where you went when you left the Rugby Club about eight-fifteen last Saturday evening ? ’ |
| 2 | In June 1979 , Hayt compromised by transferring Joseph 's 370 Nez Perce about 180 miles west to Oakland on the Ponca Reservation . |
| 3 | so they 're coming erm Friday just before dinner time they said between eleven and twelve and er they 're leaving Saturday afternoon about three |
| 4 | Our Scott woke up one Saturday night about half past about eleven o'clock it was screaming , I said what 's the matter , , I thought I , but he do n't never ever cry really did . |
| 5 | On Friday night about six o'clock I would ride my horse then I would brush ( groom ) it and clean my horse 's saddle and bridle . |
| 6 | The average cost of a standard policy for a two week holiday in Europe works out at £18 , while cover for a three-week holiday in the United States averages about £45 . |
| 7 | Terry phoned up asking what , Tuesday morning about quarter past eight said who was covering . |
| 8 | McCandless , accompanied by a Canadian student named Arthur Jaffray , spotted Mrs. O'Connor about an hour later and whilst Jaffray ran for a boat and some ropes , McCandless with complete disregard for the dangers , fought his way through the strong current to reach Mrs. O'Connor and supported her until Jaffray arrived in a boat with the woman 's father . |
| 9 | At the Allan Hills about 1200 specimens have been collected from 75 sq . |
| 10 | The general said that the mutinous soldiers would abandon their positions , give up their ammunition and walk on foot to their camp at Fort Bonafacio about three miles away . |
| 11 | Every year the Netherlands imports about 40 million tonnes of crude oil and over 30 million tonnes of refined products of which about 40 million tonnes per year of refined products is exported . |
| 12 | An article in the July issue reported a method ( Simitar ) of increasing loudness of communications signals by up to 20dB , mentioning work at Swansea University about 14 years ago . |
| 13 | Vancouver Rowing Club lock Andy Wilson , who moved to Canada from South Africa about four years ago . |
| 14 | Then David met Maggie Parkin about eighteen months ago and we split up . ’ |
| 15 | There had been a lot of activity in and around Brigade H.Q It appears that the enemy in front of the Commando positions has started to pull out , possibly due to the Allied advance in the Caen area about ten miles from here . |
| 16 | Before coming to City Road about six weeks before , the pair had been all over — Wales , Somerset , Kent , up north . |
| 17 | In the U.S.A. even at the time of President Lincoln about 1860 there was serious debate as to whether the economy should remain agricultural or whether there should be a positive attempt to develop manufacturing . |
| 18 | Labour present is Neil Kinnock , who speaks for 63 minutes and quotes Robert Frost about miles to go and promises to keep , and about a brighter dawn when poverty , privilege , fear , disease , woe , and war shall live only in the memory of time . |
| 19 | WODEN LAW About 8 miles south-east of Jedburgh , reached from the A68 via eastbound by-road below Carter Bar . |
| 20 | She would appear at the gates of the Waaf Site about 10.45pm , armed with a torch half the size of the Flamborough lighthouse , when upwards of a dozen couples would be propping up the fence saying goodnight . |
| 21 | On that assumption , Theunis Krankoor 's arrival in Cape Town can be placed within a period of about fifteen years , after the implementation of the full Napoleonic legal code in the Netherlands and before the birth of his first child , James , who , according to his wedding and death registrations , was born in the Cape Colony about 1823 or 1824 . |
| 22 | To avoid queues at the entrance , Disney will normally let guests into the Main Street area about half an hour before opening . |
| 23 | Tory backbenchers and the nation at large will give Mr Major about a year before deciding whether the helmsman or his crew are mostly to blame if the nation 's ills refuse to blow away . |
| 24 | I can remember at Westfield school about fifteen years ago we had an art teacher , who got the children to make an enormous thing , I think it was a Loch Ness Monster , and it went out of , out of the door of one room into another , you know , and they spent days and ages on making this thing |
| 25 | But a client is a client and he perked up no end as we walked round to Marlowe Road , Lloyd between us and one of the Dennison boys about ten feet ahead acting as an outrider . |
| 26 | It nestles on the edge of the Yorkshire Wolds about five miles west of Bridlington along the A1253 Bridlington to York road . |
| 27 | A house up the road , Sunday afternoon about 1958 , plates of roast lamb offered . |
| 28 | In the United States about 1% of infants born to colonised mothers develop group B streptococcal infection ; in northern Europe , including Britain , the incidence seems to be about 10 times lower . |
| 29 | The train brought one or two doubtful comments from a few WSR enginemen about 3822 's abilities with such a heavy train on the line 's hard gradients . |
| 30 | Constable Campbell rounded the corner into Sandyford Place about quarter to nine . |