Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] about " in BNC.

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1 I told him it must 've been about the Royal Garden Party .
2 I try now to remember what that outpouring of words was about , it must have been about something .
3 I told you I sleep in that chair , did n't I ? — It must have been about midnight because I 'd just watched this film and that did n't finish until half eleven .
4 His wife Elizabeth ( c.1693–1762 ) would have been about the age of Leapor 's Sophronia [ Baker , 1 , 493–5 ] .
5 He must have been about my age , too , because he 'd been in Nagasaki when the bomb went on .
6 ‘ It could have been about anyone .
7 The first sexual casual pick-up I had was also in South Wales ; this must have been about 1965–6 when I was nineteen or twenty .
8 ‘ She would have been about your age , if she had lived . ’
9 Thus it seems likely that health authorities were encouraged to be generous in the allocation of budgets , that fundholders were less concerned than they might otherwise have been about the need to stay within strict cash limits , and that non-fundholders were allowed greater freedom of referral than might have been anticipated .
10 Or would it have been about the same ?
11 It must have been about the fourth or fifth time I went round to see him .
12 Oh it 'll likely have been about Blair Gowrie or Pitlochry or some place , just anybody who would have taken him in .
13 Would that have been about the time you went back to the car to look for your nine iron ? ’
14 I think there 's about seventy or women in it , but there used to be must have been about , maybe about eighty or ninety women
15 Cos that was about , that must have been about erm er I 'd say time about , yes I should say about nineteen , nineteen thirty four and they built a pipeline out from the sewer outfall and they put two dolphins out there , and they reckon that the water , when it 's purified just to go into the river was really clean water .
16 The intense tropical heat was debilitating and Eva was n't as wise as she should have been about her health .
17 When would that have been about this were they in the second division then or
18 But it could have been about the time Ephraim disappeared . ’
19 Must have been about Monday , or Tuesday .
20 Well , with the two lines going yeah would have been about right then but see , John I do n't suppose he realised Ann was gon na fetch all the people out of here there and everywhere and start that up .
21 It ca n't have been about school .
22 So th let's look then back at this illustration for a moment , this incident , Jesus then gets er a few of his disciples and they go out , in the boat , and there are others who follow him , they get into their boats quite likely , quite possibly that many of the others would have been followers of Jesus , some of his other disciples , it 's unlikely in these very small little er lakeside fishing boats that many of disciples would have got in , there might have been four or five of them that would have been about the lot and so the others would have got into some of the other boats which were nearby and , and others are the people that had been listening to Jesus , they too get into boats , and they pull out following him , wanting to hear if he 's got anything more to say , wanting to witness anything else that he 's gon na do , they wan na be there to see and to hear what Jesus has to say and is going to do .
23 It must have been about the turn of the century the er Times newspaper ran a competition and it wa , the competition was a very simple one , difficult to answer but it was very simply put it was asking for people to write in letters and essays , and features and articles on , what was wrong with the world .
24 I am glad they 've approved it because it 's , it 's removed any uncertainty there might have been about the nineteen nineties , slightly disappointing that they chose to tinker with our wording here and there , but , but by and large , not too unhappy .
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