Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He put me on a stretcher , had me carried about half a mile across fields to an ambulance , which in turn took me down to the local advanced dressing station . |
2 | Passed me test about twelve years ago . |
3 | Job losses are inevitable , although the two companies , between them employing about 1,100 wo n't be drawn on numbers . |
4 | I mean I tried , tried to er er done it in my book about my again and I read about two pages and I fell asleep . |
5 | The last time I made about half a pint of bread sauce , I lost half the bread sauce all over it ! |
6 | the er children 's television show they they occasionally show a Newfoundland pulling a boat , well now that 's the film that I made about ten years ago and this Newfoundland pulled in the boat . |
7 | ‘ I averaged about five queers a day . |
8 | I 've got about , you see I 've about ten minutes |
9 | yes , well I mean about two lots of minutes ago |
10 | I mean about ten pound is the cheapest and perhaps even twelve . |
11 | Not that the senior management of Even Rudergrams saw it that way , of course , and it took nearly an hour 's arguing before I got about sixty per cent of my agreed fee . |
12 | And er the firm payed me er four shilling , a week , and er the man I was working with , he he , the rest of it was taken out of his er his er wage packet er and put into mine , and so I got about eleven and sixpence a week . |
13 | I had about Friday night I finished work here at twelve and then up again at and I got about two hours sleep then and I started to . |
14 | I made one stupid mistake in one of my books , about a car , and I got about 25 letters . |
15 | Oh I ca n't tell you that I would n't never discuss things like that , until I got about twenty five , you know neighbours or not , and I said why did they call him ? |
16 | Oh I got more than that actually I got about ten p . |
17 | He would n't let me say something and I tried about three times and in the end I just kept talking , |
18 | like I say about ten to eleven , five to eleven said what are you doing then Bob ? |
19 | I recollect about half past ten that evening on the fourth . |
20 | I want about three or four inches off the bottom |
21 | I mean I spoke to Jane the other Sunday and I , I said to her you know , just be honest , I said I do n't care what you said , but just be honest and tell me how much you think I weigh , cos she does n't know how much I weigh and she thought I weighed about ten stone , I said well stick thirteen pounds on top of that , then you 'll be right , she could n't believe that I , that I weighed that much , so obviously it does n't look that bad and people at work , well they 've noticed that I 've lost weight , but they do n't say how much they think I weigh , so I do n't want come to them to sort of , have a , have a g have a guess of my weight . |
22 | I 'd about 25 leech bites on each foot , and about 10 leeches in each boot , all absolutely full of blood . |
23 | ‘ I 'd about 25 leech bites on each foot , and about 10 leeches in each boot , all absolutely full of blood . ’ |
24 | what I 've done , I done about seventeen of them . |
25 | As soon as I dropped about 70 feet down towards the restaurant , via the tourist runway with its ridiculous little suburban garden fences bordering the steps , the wind ceased and I stepped out of the snow . |
26 | ‘ I received about 80 to 100 casuals each night . |
27 | I saw a gadget the other day that 's two , two plastic circles with handles on , mm , I think I paid about seven pounds and this was to gather up leaves and big lot of |
28 | I erm run about erm ten kilometres and with this E P O , I run about two and a half — three minutes faster than before . |
29 | I read about 3.54 , 4.3 and 3.9 , what do they mean , which is best and will it solve the problem or should I just change back to a standard cam ? |
30 | I finish about ten to one . |