Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] about ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah alright then , got down about ten yards it started again |
| 2 | Before Diana I could survive on about ten books a year . |
| 3 | After they 'd looked over about ten children , the doctor yawned and said , ‘ I do n't see any problems here . |
| 4 | not got the second part , anyway , he phoned up about ten to two and said , but , but before that she had said that he had met Mark |
| 5 | Then she phoned back about ten minutes later and she said wondered if we could come at eleven o'clock in the morning . |
| 6 | Erm turbocharging in diesel engines really came on about ten years ago . |
| 7 | It is already apparent to us that she has no emotional link with the child ; she is indeed now only anxious to return to her own work , which she will do in about ten days ' time . ’ |
| 8 | And er because Phil was here Oliver went to bed about ten so he woke up about ten And I 've swallowed a couple of pills and feel fine . |
| 9 | He levelled off about ten feet above the ground and banked as he climbed , looking back at the red flag . |
| 10 | Winter savory can be grown from seed sown outdoors in August ; it should not be covered as it needs light to germinate when it will then sprout in about ten days . |
| 11 | This is the some the th one of the things I was going to suggest about I was going to leave it till next meeting , is that we we try and organize ourselves so that we are not su Last year I found myself sitting there frantically writing names on raffle tickets , knowing I was going out to play in about ten minutes , but there was nobody there to take over . |
| 12 | Yeah , he 's up there sound-o , and he was up this way , he went up at one and got up about ten minutes after this one , so |
| 13 | This particular recipe is a quick-to-make version , and is ready to use in about ten minutes . |
| 14 | I want to leave by about ten tomorrow so I 'll get on to a garage first thing in the morning and hope they can fix my car straight away . ’ |
| 15 | Turbocharging really only took off about ten years ago . |
| 16 | Does n't it go off about ten ? |
| 17 | It 's going to finish up about ten yards in front of me . |
| 18 | Just this , tidying up about ten minutes I always fill the house up with junk ! |
| 19 | Last year Lord Petre planted out about ten thousand Americans which , being at the same time mixed with about twenty thousand Europeans , and some Asians , make a very beautiful appearance , great art and skill being shown in consulting everyone 's particular growth and the well blending of the greens … |
| 20 | The bank sloped down about ten feet , into a large ploughed field . |
| 21 | on Monday and then happily leave around about ten o'clock |
| 22 | A neutron in a free state will decay in about ten minutes into a proton , after giving off one unit of negative electrical energy in the form of a negative pion . |
| 23 | I , I would , I would be very surprised if the communists understood how deterministic idea of erm some sort of progression , I think you ca n't really say in about ten years ' time we 're gon na be here |
| 24 | It is completely restored , set in about ten acres of land , rather isolated but with fine views . |
| 25 | The first impression was , to say the least , somewhat awe inspiring — smooth , dark grey , concrete walls stretching up about ten metres with raised gun-towers approximately every 100 metres . |