Example sentences of "[vb past] about [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you your end of Sunday came about half past eight when the church closed down , cos services did n't start too early in those days , at six thirty , I think . |
| 2 | Came about half ten , so I do n't know what time I went down the Rave 's , be that time . |
| 3 | As to the liquor , it filled about half the coffin and in it ‘ feathers , flowers , and herbs in abundance were floating , the leaves and stalks of which appeared quite perfect , but totally discoloured ’ . |
| 4 | It had around three times the membership of the CFDT and received about half of the votes cast in enterprise committee elections . |
| 5 | Our losses in the first few months of 1943 were rather harmful , and would have been very damaging to morale ; something happened about that time which affected me very deeply . |
| 6 | ‘ The only visitor was the messenger who arrived about that time and left a message that the King would be coming to Kinghorn later that day ! ’ |
| 7 | Erm , about one o'clock , and finished about half past six , seven . |
| 8 | Hungry and often lonely , they hung about all day for the warmth and company , for Libion 's good coffee and the hot croissants , soup and ham sandwiches and red wine they could barter for their work . |
| 9 | I daresay you heard about that joke-night among the London literati . ’ |
| 10 | The last time I made about half a pint of bread sauce , I lost half the bread sauce all over it ! |
| 11 | ( On average we sold about half of each person 's goods . ) |
| 12 | ( On average we sold about half of each persons goods . ) |
| 13 | Granny lived about half a mile away , in a narrow street with drab shops dotted between the houses , which were one down and two up , like ours . |
| 14 | For weeks , all Paris talked about that night at the opera . |
| 15 | If I touched your arm , if we smiled at one another , if we talked about that day and the rainstorm and the shock of the butts recoiling against our cheeks and Halliday dead on the moor . |
| 16 | The Low Country , which contained about half of Sinhala Sri Lanka 's population , corresponded roughly to the area which was subject to direct Dutch and Portuguese political influence . |
| 17 | So erm so went about half past five . |
| 18 | Some 10,000,000 Kurds in south-eastern Turkey represented about half of the world 's Kurdish population . |
| 19 | The preparation and signing of the document took about half an hour . |
| 20 | That took about half an hour , and I could n't feel a thing from the waist down . |
| 21 | Only took about half his bottle . |
| 22 | ‘ What could be less noble in reason , ’ he wrote , ‘ less infinite in faculty , than that man , despite his potentialities , should have fallen into such error in the use of himself , and in this way brought about such a lowering in his standard of functioning that in everything he attempts to accomplish , these harmful conditions tend to become more and more exaggerated . |
| 23 | No one was sure whether he had deliberately set a trap , or whether it was merely a chance remark that brought about such astounding results . |
| 24 | They actually lessen the possibilities of guilt and remorse being felt by the young person for the behaviour which brought about such action . |
| 25 | In practice this ordinance brought about little immediate change because it was introduced piecemeal into various districts . |
| 26 | The end of that war brought about many changes in Europe , one of which was the creation of a new mid-Europe nation which was originally named the ‘ Kingdom of Serbs , Croats and Slovenes ’ , but which formally changed its name in 1929 , to Yugoslavia . |
| 27 | And it finally brought about many long anticipated changes , like the decline of America 's auto industry , and the counterbalancing rise of Japan 's . |
| 28 | A lovely house Syon , whose occupants tended the sick and brought about many a cure . |
| 29 | A number of incidents , some more significant than others , brought about that change ; a late night confrontation with Camilla Parker-Bowles ; Diana 's behaviour following the avalanche in Klosters , Switzerland which nearly claimed her husband 's life ; comforting a grieving stranger in a Nottingham hospital , and deciding at last to seek treatment for her chronic eating disorder . |
| 30 | The problem has been augmented over the past two years by the US recession , which brought about more company failures , and the savings and loan debacle . |