Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] about ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | okay cos they 'll all want some , they 'll all give me about ten P which is n't much |
| 2 | And a lot of the commercial ones charge you about ten pence a |
| 3 | Cos you just sit there and , do you think you can lend me some money , please , I promise I 'll pay you back , and they 'll all give you about ten P , some of them give you fifty , some of them give you twenty got about , I was thinking you could just go in there and save up for all your Christmas shopping could n't you ? |
| 4 | ‘ I woke her about ten . |
| 5 | Give me about ten minutes , then bring Isabel into the hall , will you ? ’ |
| 6 | Costs you about ten pound do it ? |
| 7 | Now we start off I 'll ask you I give you about ten minutes that 's all it does n't take long . |
| 8 | My uncle bought one about ten year ago and all there was about was Betamax then . |
| 9 | the lady 's had it about ten years but she 's got a little dog as well . |
| 10 | We have succeeded since in getting it down to something just over thirty four percent now er and erm therefore we are not much above our original work share but each percentage point of equipment costs us about ten million pounds extra . |
| 11 | A game I invented , and which is useful as children arrive , is to give them about ten or twelve cards . |
| 12 | ‘ The euphoria of completion seems to last you about ten minutes . ’ |
| 13 | Yeah , it only takes him about ten minutes to get home . |
| 14 | Hugh will be accompanied by a 30-foot safety boat , and he is making the journey , which he estimates will take him about ten hours , in a standard sea kayak , and he is due in around 4.30 this afternoon . |
| 15 | This is a , a helpful and reciprocal relationship because our students , who are in our Postgraduate Certificate of Education course , that 's university graduates who are training to be teachers , do go out into schools in this area and do their teaching practice in those schools in a rather interesting way and we developed a scheme , here in Sussex , which was quite novel when we started it about ten years ago . |
| 16 | Take a blank sheet of paper and write down everything that occurs to you about the word(s) you have chosen , giving yourself about ten minutes . |
| 17 | I remember , again a few years ago , visiting India and buying one or two beautifully carved tables , which had obviously been carved by an individual spending quite a lot of time doing it , and I was impressed at that stage , rather naively perhaps , that if in fact I 'd bought a plain table , an uncarved one , it would have cost me about ten times as much , for the simple reason that that would require a milling machine which was not normally available , and such was the erm economy that it was cheaper for people to do this . |
| 18 | It took me about ten days to work my way into it , after that I found it very acceptable . |
| 19 | Sadly , it only took me about ten seconds to think of this merry lot so I 've probably missed lots of good candidates … |
| 20 | Sadly , it only took me about ten seconds to think of this merry lot so I 've probably missed lots of good candidates … |
| 21 | The thing I was getting so pissed off cos I 've run it about ten times now , cos you keep coming and do alterations ! |
| 22 | When he surfaced he saw it about ten metres away . |
| 23 | Took us about ten minutes . |
| 24 | I 'll have to write a wee note to say that I 've to come and get you about ten to twelve . |
| 25 | Married him about ten years ago , I believe . |
| 26 | " Can I play ? " she said at last , after we 'd ignored her about ten minutes . |
| 27 | It 's a spe that 's special capsule , take it about ten o'clock at night , |
| 28 | You can have the heating on I 'll I 'll check it about ten minutes but if the hot water gets really , really hot then it 's the thermostat and |