Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] about three " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would n't let me say something and I tried about three times and in the end I just kept talking , |
| 2 | He 's got a really good band now , too , which I saw about three months ago . |
| 3 | Last time I went about three years ago . |
| 4 | Er where I did about three years and then moved to Southwell . |
| 5 | A student at Sheffield university then , he recalls : ‘ When you blew into your handkerchief , you got about three tons of coaldust . |
| 6 | What happens if we 've got an emergency situation and how come when you got about three or four different authorities to deal with that matter and the other thing that has been said people said it to me , the question of building and in some parts of West Sussex we 've got concrete jungles and that itself can cause flooding because water does n't drain would do through natural resources through its natural well drain away . |
| 7 | Curled up in a ball on the candlewick , she looked about three years old . |
| 8 | yep , and we developed theo that business here in fact in Suffolk , we were the very first Fire Brigade to , to do it in the seventies , er our own workshops made them erm the units and are now still making them , and the ideas were original ideas on , on , on the equipment and we made about three or four in , in when I retired and I think they made several others now like canteen vans , and erm breathing apparatus , er and so on . |
| 9 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 10 | It 's called the Tripyer Shield and it 's a local amateur thing Eccles and District and to win it it 's like winning the F A Cup and this G M B team that we started we lost about three or four matches and we started losing the players , so when you do n't lock the doors and you 'd end up with about seven players and you 'd think is it worth bothering ? |
| 11 | Those two put together , I think we lost about three hundred thousand pounds as a result of the change in distribution . |
| 12 | And er course we went about three weeks before that then we got invited over for tea . |
| 13 | And then we changed things like the name because we found somebody 's name in all these words , somebody , and we just sellotaped it down , and at the end when we were running out of time , and we did about three times have a look at the time , we did change the script slightly to fit the words that we 'd found so we had responsibilities instead of , I do n't know what it was , but instead of another words , just because we 'd found it . |
| 14 | ‘ We had about three days of talks before we were allowed to film the expenses sequence , ’ says associate producer Lynn Alleway . |
| 15 | Today I mean they , I mean when you take , years and years ago when there used to be man handling everything same as timber , I mean we had about three hundred dockers then . |
| 16 | And he worked it out , he took about three or four weeks to work it out , and he 'd been overcharged on the interest like . |
| 17 | Of Dustin , Ross said , ‘ He looked about three feet tall , so dead serious , so humourless , so unkempt . |
| 18 | I think it took about three years to get to a normal level . |
| 19 | Well he did about three laps of the lounge this morning . |
| 20 | Er , I 've had a word with Jeremy about decorating , oh Florrie I must apologise I did try to ring you , I think I managed to get everybody else , erm but you were n't there , in and then I , I left it I regret to say , erm but we thought perhaps we ought to have the kitchen re-decorated and I 've had a word with Jereminy , Jereminy , Jeremy and he says about two hundred pounds and I did get permission from some of you and I 've gone ahead and asked him to do it and he said about three weeks , but before we can have that done , in the meantime , the roof leaked again out in the kitchen Erm , so I 've had a word with Peter who was going on holiday and he should be home this week and he said he will look at it as soon as he 's home , so I 'll give him a ring , I 'll try tomorrow night , I 'm out tonight , I 'll try and give him a ring tomorrow . |