Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farmer sent him to keep a flock of larks off a field that had just been set with winter corn : ‘ It was late November or early December ; and when it got dark about half past four time I made my way back to the farm thinking my job was done . |
| 2 | Jackie Sinclaire , from Horncastle , Lincolnshire , has a seven-year-old Golden Retriever named Jasper who was diagnosed diabetic about 18 months ago . |
| 3 | For snorting up your nose you want cocaine about twenty per cent . |
| 4 | One fourteenth-century manuscript contains information about four : those of Catherine of Siena , the fourteenth-century Italian girl who became a Dominican tertiary and whose teaching based on mystical certainty of the reality of her union with Christ , with whom she experienced a spiritual visionary marriage , was given official Dominican patronage ; and three thirteenth-century Belgian mystics : Christina called Mirabilis from St Truden ; Elizabeth of Spalbeck , a Belgian recluse patronised by the Cistercians ; and the prototypical Beguine , Mary of Oignies , championed by Jacques de Vitry , the Bishop of Acres and later a Cardinal Legate at the court of Gregory IX who protected her and wrote her biography . |
| 5 | I tried straw about two years ago , approx half a bale in a 1500 gallon pond , although I do not know if it was barley or wheat straw . |
| 6 | You went to see that bloke only maybe still at school just finishes school about two years ago |
| 7 | You went to see that bloke only maybe still at school just finishes school about two years ago |
| 8 | Let stand about 18 minutes , until the breasts are cooked through . |
| 9 | Analysis of d-d spectra of transition metal complexes can give information about three parameters of structural importance : the symmetry of the species ; the magnitude of Δ ; and the magnitude of the Racah parameter B. Identifying the symmetry and coordination number of a complex is obviously important in determining its structure . |
| 10 | Responding to criticism from other political parties in his coalition government , Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti stressed that the two men , Mohammed Issa Abbas and Youssouf Ahmed Saad , had secured release about two years early as part of a general amnesty programme ; it was " fantasy " , he said , to suggest that their freeing only two weeks before the outbreak of hostilities in the Gulf was aimed at protecting Italy from terrorist attacks . |
| 11 | ‘ You regained consciousness about half an hour after I started talking to you . |
| 12 | For instance , two postures given by blue ties threatening each other at a bird table accurately predict escape about 90 per cent of the time ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 13 | The , the d doors were in the water right low , they were , they were low say you would n't have had say about three foot of water in the hold . |
| 14 | The paper on Procedure includes information about three possible precedents , the Irish Convention 1917/18 , the Newfoundland Convention 1946/7 , and the Australian Constitutional Convention established in 1972 . |
| 15 | The flight is via the USA with only one stop ; travel time about 30 hours out and 27 hours back . |
| 16 | Unlike most pulses , lentils need no presoaking — simmer gently for 20 minutes until tender , add salt about five minutes before the end of cooking . |
| 17 | I 'll take quite a lot more interest in this competition now , and perhaps Sebastian here will get out of bed to train before school without being called six times — he only starts running practice about ten days before a competition , you know . |
| 18 | And today I 've had cereal , gon na have lunch about twelve , and then have dinner tonight . |
| 19 | I visited a school in the North West recently and the school told me that they had a considerable number of girls applying to university to read engineering about two years ago . |
| 20 | Might as well have dinner then , with us because we 'll be having dinner about five . |
| 21 | Furthermore , the transference from Worcester to Lincoln of the concept of a ten-bayed concentric chapter house took place about 1225 . |
| 22 | Lancaster was also responsible for his marriage , which took place about 1308 and led to still greater gains . |
| 23 | The attack took place about two miles beyond Johannesburg 's southern suburbs at 7.30am as commuters were streaming to work and mothers were delivering children to school . |
| 24 | Sadly , the dear little chapel also was demolished some years ago , and the demise of the railway took place about 30 years ago . |
| 25 | Human beings learnt to control fire about 100 000 years ago , causing gouts of smoke and carbon dioxide to be released into the atmosphere . |
| 26 | ‘ So I suppose death could have taken place about twelve hours ago . ’ |
| 27 | This meeting had taken place about two weeks ago ; two weeks of frustration and boredom rubbing away at the monkey 's sanity , its only hope to keep concentrating ; to put all its energy into finishing the task the computer had set for it ; another four , maybe five hours of programming . |
| 28 | My Cousin Vinny Even Joe Pesci 's considerable talents ca n't quite lift this mildly diverting comedy about two New York kids accused of a murder they did n't commit . |
| 29 | When it was time for ‘ lights out ’ , she and Jake left the room together , and out in the corridor Jake told her , ‘ Mrs Aitken usually serves supper about eight , so if you want to freshen up you have a bit of time . |
| 30 | These kind of windows are very cheap , in fact this one I think cost about two hundred and fifty pounds altogether , but when you 're doing big er double folding shutters and glass windows and things like that , then you 're into the thousands . |