Example sentences of "[conj] i 'm about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I work with her , and I 'm about as close to her as anyone around here . ’ |
| 2 | And I 'm about , yo younger than all of you . |
| 3 | and then you got the rest of it , so you 'll always go more than a hundred and eighty , now when you , when you 're pointing you 're facing that way again , turn around that way again , when you 're facing that way , erm especially if I 'm about erm , say especially if I 'm about here . |
| 4 | and then you got the rest of it , so you 'll always go more than a hundred and eighty , now when you , when you 're pointing you 're facing that way again , turn around that way again , when you 're facing that way , erm especially if I 'm about erm , say especially if I 'm about here . |
| 5 | ‘ Put mine there too , ’ she said , ‘ and while I 'm about it , anyone who would like to join our Amateur Dramatics Group is very welcome . |
| 6 | ‘ Right , and I 'll take a shufti round the wood while I 'm about it . |
| 7 | Those questions seem to me to be inexorably leading to ‘ And while I 'm about it , why do n't you clean your fingernails and wash your hair ? ’ |
| 8 | What the hell , though , while I 'm about it — the whole truth . |
| 9 | I fetch myself another gin while I 'm up and pour a bit in Mum 's tea while I 'm about it . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've now arranged to fly out and spend the last two weeks of his working trip with him as a kind of nosing-around holiday while I 'm about it , but the first two weeks … ’ |