Example sentences of "i [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gently reminded me that on being in the same room as a baby , the same borough , I became about as relaxed and spontaneous as any old member of the royal family being introduced to Lech Walesa . |
| 2 | –Darling , what am I blathering about ? |
| 3 | An interesting example of this , I read about recently in the press . |
| 4 | You know , I mean , I was convinced that there was no such thing as religion after I 'd read the book I mean , anything I read about , I immediately say , oh yes , of course that 's true , you know . |
| 5 | When you 're having another one of those parties I read about in the Sport . |
| 6 | I mean I tried , tried to er er done it in my book about my again and I read about two pages and I fell asleep . |
| 7 | The last time I made about half a pint of bread sauce , I lost half the bread sauce all over it ! |
| 8 | the er children 's television show they they occasionally show a Newfoundland pulling a boat , well now that 's the film that I made about ten years ago and this Newfoundland pulled in the boat . |
| 9 | ‘ I averaged about five queers a day . |
| 10 | At home , I mooched about in a pair of basketball boots mended with a bicycle repair kit , eating ketchup on bread , and staring at a wart on my finger the size and texture of a tiny cauliflower . |
| 11 | I 've got about , you see I 've about ten minutes |
| 12 | I mean about , what , recently I 've been getting it for ages and this time it was n't there , and I , and I thought to myself dam it I 'm not going |
| 13 | That 's what I mean about when he sort of ran off that night I thought , in one way I was pissed off with him but in one way I thought well at least he can you know ? |
| 14 | In my teens , I remember , the usual result ( and when I say usual I mean about twice a week ) was sudden , fulminating appendicitis . |
| 15 | I mean about ten pound is the cheapest and perhaps even twelve . |
| 16 | yes , well I mean about two lots of minutes ago |
| 17 | I fussed about , preparing myself , washing , combing my hair and putting on my borrowed finery . |
| 18 | I got about halfway , and then wished for a spurt of invention that did n't depend upon one strident clown shaking a furious finger at someone who was standing two feet behind him . ’ |
| 19 | I made one stupid mistake in one of my books , about a car , and I got about 25 letters . |
| 20 | And er the firm payed me er four shilling , a week , and er the man I was working with , he he , the rest of it was taken out of his er his er wage packet er and put into mine , and so I got about eleven and sixpence a week . |
| 21 | And er I got , they 'd got about twelve hundred members , and I think I got about a thousand , of course there were n't two of the men that knew and they voted . |
| 22 | Not that the senior management of Even Rudergrams saw it that way , of course , and it took nearly an hour 's arguing before I got about sixty per cent of my agreed fee . |
| 23 | Oh I got more than that actually I got about ten p . |
| 24 | Oh I ca n't tell you that I would n't never discuss things like that , until I got about twenty five , you know neighbours or not , and I said why did they call him ? |
| 25 | I had about Friday night I finished work here at twelve and then up again at and I got about two hours sleep then and I started to . |
| 26 | Or must I wait about while the brat traipses away up there with meat for her , eh ? ’ |
| 27 | He would n't let me say something and I tried about three times and in the end I just kept talking , |
| 28 | I mean I pity about today . |
| 29 | The first season I fished it I caught a solitary barbel , during the second I caught about a dozen and in the third well over fifty . |
| 30 | like I say about ten to eleven , five to eleven said what are you doing then Bob ? |