Example sentences of "[verb] [was/were] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The utterances used were about six words long . |
| 2 | The hole I drew was about nine metres out and I fished it with that length of pole and a short line . |
| 3 | and then he 's , he 's fucking started marching us around the parade square and and we ca n't see a fucking thing inside there , and he said er come out a minute , so I 've blinking gone out and I 've noticed were about fifty yards from the beach |
| 4 | Second , they can be qualified by relative clauses : ( 26 ) the rudest , which was very rude indeed , is best forgotten now the longest that I have ever seen was about two metres and a half ( 27 ) the fragrant , which comes from Japan , is a splendid choice the triangular which you wanted has been sold |
| 5 | but then later on in the day he rung back and said he had found some bilingual signs but all he 's got were about four foot square er with census point ahead . |
| 6 | ‘ Bloody bridge , ’ Gerry said , ‘ the last time this happened was about five years ago , when Jack Thompson saw something . |
| 7 | Although I worked all that day , by the evening I realised that all I 'd produced was about fifteen pages of a rather bad Agatha Christie spoof . |
| 8 | What he needed was about fifty nomes . |
| 9 | She had stayed in the cellar for what she thought was about three days and then realised that she had n't felt the vibration of gunfire for some time , perhaps a day and a night . |
| 10 | Last time I went was a last time I went was about fifteen years ago , so I was thirty nine |
| 11 | But the one I saw was about half past two . |
| 12 | It set West Indies a target of 225 , which everyone knew was about three hundred too low , and inevitably Greenidge and Haynes began with a century partnership . |
| 13 | And the next biggest then I think was about thirty six acres or so . |
| 14 | Now I M R O asked er we understand for the be the management of that organisation to give accounts for that for the c for the senior company to I M R O prior to its membership about a I think was about eight working days before I M R O approved that membership . |
| 15 | I think the first ones we had were about nineteen thirty six I believe . |
| 16 | Mr Dobson , whom police said was about 40 , had lived with Ms Bell , a receptionist , at their Darlington home for the last two years . |
| 17 | It look a little longer to plan how she was to make the journey to Chertsey , which she had discovered was about twenty miles away . |
| 18 | Point I was going to say was about five million pounds of that probably hit the the public the rest is lying in garages and |
| 19 | One result of this change was that the number of households enumerated was about 300 thousands more under the new definition or about 13 per cent ( Todd and Griffiths , 1986 ) . |