Example sentences of "i be about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was about ten or eleven at the time , but I had ‘ known ’ since I was about six . |
| 32 | Then , I do n't know how many years we had down the street , but we moved when I was about six years old up the street near the church . |
| 33 | ‘ I 've collected records since I was about 11 ’ , he says , confessing to an early case of the vinyl addiction that is a prerequisite for any DJ worth his or her Technics . |
| 34 | I bought some wiring and bulb fittings when I was about 11 years old — I fitted the electrics as home-made lighting — then gave my father a shock when he touched the aquarium , fused the lights , and set fire to my bedroom . |
| 35 | ‘ It 's something I learned when I was about four , ’ she tells us . |
| 36 | When I was about four years of age , he made a working model roundabout with galloping horses . |
| 37 | From the time that I was about four , each fine weekday evening during the summer months , I trotted off to meet my father from his work at Farrs , the Coachbuilders in Brown Street . |
| 38 | These were compounded by my recollections of a series of visits to Moorfields Eye Hospital and at least one incarceration there when I was about four . |
| 39 | ‘ I was about four months pregnant when I started to feel quite poorly , ’ says Leslie . |
| 40 | Well you know the first time I went was oh I du n no , before the war you know when I was about four or five and I went to get one out I mean my parents |
| 41 | ‘ Although I was interested in music , I did n't bother playing until I was about 17 . |
| 42 | ‘ Groups like King Crimson were around when I was about 17 , and I suppose the earliest progressive British groups I would have listened to were Procol Harum , The Nice , et cetera . |
| 43 | ‘ I worked for a bit when I was about eighteen . |
| 44 | ‘ Since I was about eighteen . |
| 45 | I got my first borstal when I was about eighteen for assault on another girl . |
| 46 | And er then , of course , when I was about eighteen , er I became what is what be what was called as an improver . |
| 47 | And I was there until I was about eighteen . |
| 48 | Well at about er when I was about eighteen , I erm I decided I 'd had enough of this er this business of three days on the three days on , and three off , in the winter , and it was about October time and I could see another winter of it . |
| 49 | One of my school reports , when I was about nine , said of my history attainment , ‘ Molly writes a good story which is not always history . ’ |
| 50 | We had no radio until I was about nine years old . |
| 51 | When I was about nine years old , my father had his first car . |
| 52 | However , they have told me recently that , when I was about nine or ten , they thought me a bully because I would surreptitiously pinch them or pull their hair in order to keep them in line — that is , in order to make them behave as my parents would have wished them to . |
| 53 | When I was about nine I grew positively hungry for poetry . |
| 54 | " It was in the mid-50s and I was about nine or ten years old . |
| 55 | I was truanting from school when I was about nine , and to be truthful my mother said I was totally out of hand . |
| 56 | When I was , I used to go in the slaughterhouse with him when I was about nine yeah . |
| 57 | But of course , five years difference meant that he and I were not relating as equals until I was about sixteen , and then the war separated us . |
| 58 | One early significant occasion for me was actually meeting someone in a bookshop in the Finchley Road when I was about sixteen . |
| 59 | I do n't know when it started , but my first memory of it was when I was about sixteen . |
| 60 | Well when I was about sixteen say . |