Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a few problems when I was about thirty and my doctor told me it was just my age and the menopause ! |
| 2 | And he said he was working with an old fellow which is getting on in age and he was quite absent minded and he said , I was about thirty feet from the ground on a ledge er filling er s a hole ready for shot for blasting and the old fellow was about twenty feet higher than him and then he was ss er whatsit another hole and then a at the top of the chamber there 's a little hole , he said , like a roof we call it which is a little passage that goes up into the next floor and then we used that as an escape route he did n't have to go far . |
| 3 | Oh , right up until I was about thirty five , thirty eight , forty |
| 4 | When I was about II , my mother bashfully confided to me that " babies came out of their mummies ' tummies " ! |
| 5 | Then , when I was about 18 or 19 I figured that I 'd learned every rock guitar lead that I ever wanted to know — all my favourite Ulrich Roth solos and all my favourite Frank Marino leads . |
| 6 | I tried when I was about 18 , 19 . |
| 7 | I had asthma as a lad and also developed an ulcer when I was about 16 . |
| 8 | Well opiates , I began to dabble with them when I was about 16 , after experimenting with cannabis , amphetamines , LSD , opium , and moving in a circle … . |
| 9 | I was about 16 and I had a huge crush on him . |
| 10 | I came across him when I was about 14 or 15 , and although I 'd played Chet Atkins-style fingerpicking before , it had n't occurred to me to use the bottleneck in conjunction with fingerpicking . |
| 11 | When I was about 14 , I remember my sister and I pledging quite seriously to grow up and defy convention ; to be women who still wore jeans and long hair at 30 . |
| 12 | I 'm not big on soaps , though I was in The Newcomers for five weeks when I was about 14 or 15 . |
| 13 | ‘ I first started writing songs when I was about 14 , because I knew that the first song I 'd put down would be so crap I thought I 'd get all my ideas out of the way first , and then I 'd start getting all artistic , ’ explains Tony . |
| 14 | For London-born pro footballer Vince Hilaire , the realization was more gradual : ‘ I did n't really think about the black and white thing until I was about 14 or 15 . |
| 15 | ‘ Then there was the big typhus epidemic when I was about six and she died . |
| 16 | I need my dream , I 've got to have it — like I had to have that fairy-and-goblin curtain material when I was about six and I thought I 'd die when Mum said No , we must have the blue flowery material because it would outlast my six-year-old fairy-and-goblin phase . |
| 17 | I was about ten or eleven at the time , but I had ‘ known ’ since I was about six . |
| 18 | Then , I do n't know how many years we had down the street , but we moved when I was about six years old up the street near the church . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've collected records since I was about 11 ’ , he says , confessing to an early case of the vinyl addiction that is a prerequisite for any DJ worth his or her Technics . |
| 20 | I bought some wiring and bulb fittings when I was about 11 years old — I fitted the electrics as home-made lighting — then gave my father a shock when he touched the aquarium , fused the lights , and set fire to my bedroom . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's something I learned when I was about four , ’ she tells us . |
| 22 | When I was about four years of age , he made a working model roundabout with galloping horses . |
| 23 | From the time that I was about four , each fine weekday evening during the summer months , I trotted off to meet my father from his work at Farrs , the Coachbuilders in Brown Street . |
| 24 | These were compounded by my recollections of a series of visits to Moorfields Eye Hospital and at least one incarceration there when I was about four . |
| 25 | ‘ I was about four months pregnant when I started to feel quite poorly , ’ says Leslie . |
| 26 | Well you know the first time I went was oh I du n no , before the war you know when I was about four or five and I went to get one out I mean my parents |
| 27 | ‘ Although I was interested in music , I did n't bother playing until I was about 17 . |
| 28 | ‘ Groups like King Crimson were around when I was about 17 , and I suppose the earliest progressive British groups I would have listened to were Procol Harum , The Nice , et cetera . |
| 29 | ‘ I worked for a bit when I was about eighteen . |
| 30 | ‘ Since I was about eighteen . |