Example sentences of "[verb] was about [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The hole I drew was about nine metres out and I fished it with that length of pole and a short line . |
2 | 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 |
3 | ‘ Bloody bridge , ’ Gerry said , ‘ the last time this happened was about five years ago , when Jack Thompson saw something . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | What he needed was about fifty nomes . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Last time I went was a last time I went was about fifteen years ago , so I was thirty nine |
8 | But the one I saw was about half past two . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | And the next biggest then I think was about thirty six acres or so . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Mr Dobson , whom police said was about 40 , had lived with Ms Bell , a receptionist , at their Darlington home for the last two years . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 |
15 | 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 ) . |