Example sentences of "i [was/were] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I put my front paws on my lady 's shoulders , I was about a foot taller than her . |
| 2 | Dear Dogs Today I would like to say how pleased I was about your December Tail Ending . |
| 3 | ‘ I was about as low as I could be . |
| 4 | Just as I was about ashore , I bent down to pick up the ball , getting a wet sleeve in the process . |
| 5 | At this time , when I was thirteen years old , I was about average in height and weight for my age and so would most likely be a C. This aspect of the annual weighing and measuring routine — the actual result — did n't really bother me much . |
| 6 | I was about ready to leave when somebody leaned on the doorbell . |
| 7 | I was about , I du n no about primary four age and someone in the playground , I think it was ca n't remember exactly what I was told , obviously , but it was something silly , you know , like |
| 8 | ‘ While I was about it , I put a fiver for you on a nice little filly called General Motors . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Hard to say ; I think I started to think for myself when I was about your age , maybe a bit younger . ’ |
| 10 | I wanted to tell you how sorry I was about Sybil Vane . |
| 11 | I was about that , . |
| 12 | He was as anxious as I was about our journey to Glastonbury and the next morning we went down to the palace refectory feeling heavy-eyed and sluggish . |
| 13 | But in a brand new fitted dress into which I 'd climbed only two hours earlier , and in which I 'd never attempted the sitting position let alone … well to cut a long and visually absurd story short , I was about as likely to have a pee in that dress as I was to share a bagel with Adnan Kashoggi . |
| 14 | Er well I started going for a holiday by myself when I was about er |
| 15 | I was about the last one with a tanker er before er strike I mean they 've been there afterwards but er and er a certain tank was empty . |
| 16 | I was about 8–9 I then and am waring a particually fetching striped tank-top , this is a problem ‘ causee I 'm really proud of the photo , but not so proud of the dress sense ! ! ! |
| 17 | Ellen Orford in the poem is a middle-aged woman and it was fortuitous for me that I was about the right age — it 's not a part for a young soprano . |
| 18 | I think if I was about say Professor Lock that if I twelve was dispensed with you might notice a difference in terms of the application of I five . |
| 19 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
| 20 | because I think this little dancing troop we had out , I was about the eldest |
| 21 | They every time , when he rung up Radio Bristol when I was about having coffee the other morning . |
| 22 | First time I went to London , I was about as old as Emily , I went with , we went with the Brownies for the trip , we went to the zoo |
| 23 | so , I could n't of got out the way if I 'd of wanted to , cos I was about that much from the curb , I thought he 's |
| 24 | Oh well last I got out I found that I was about a foot too far forward out into the |
| 25 | Well I was er it would be about nineteen twenty two , I was about , cos I , I was er used trip the light fantastic fantastic a bit you know when I ran about seventeen and we used to which billiard hall there was an entrance from Street and it went up the steps into the dance hall , it was over the top of the billiard hall right to the private houses next to them , it was quite a I was sixteen , seventeen in that er dance hall at the time . |
| 26 | So I walked up to him and I was about this far away yeah ? |