Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well sent off wi after I 'd been about beginning to be co you know , could e eat something , I had cups of tea , with a egg beat up that 's what I used to get when you got typhoid . |
| 2 | It had been an eye-opener to me in 1987 when I realized how naïve I had been about the press , discovered how they believe they have some God-given right to intrude on the privacy of well-known individuals in the name of journalism . |
| 3 | ‘ Do you know how concerned I 've been about you and this damn phantom baby ? ’ |
| 4 | He says , I 've been about , he said I see you still sleep in your bed , but you 're not putting them bloody pistachios ! |
| 5 | Look , Rory , I 've been wrong about a lot of things in my life , but never more than I have been about you , right from the start . |
| 6 | No , I do n't want to do it but I mean I 'm not I 'm certainly happier than I have been about it if |
| 7 | This book is for Ear'ole , who has been as enthusiastic about my shop as she has been about all the other things that I have tackled , and then begged her to help with . |
| 8 | The lady is looking for a husband and she has been about the world sufficiently to know that I am not one of those . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , Mr Varna , I 'm so sorry … ’ she stuttered , even more horrified by her gaffe than she had been about letting a strange woman push her way into the holy of holies . |
| 10 | How wrong she had been about not needing it . |
| 11 | Jessamy remembered how very annoyed she had been about that article . |
| 12 | ‘ She had been about the Court . ’ |
| 13 | So they 've been about being erm |
| 14 | Stirling was puzzled as to why the place was not a scene of feverish activity , but while they had been about their business Rommel was in the process of retaking Benghazi . |
| 15 | yes it 'd been about well on for the end of the war she got married . |
| 16 | Or would it have been about the same ? |
| 17 | It had been about Hegel , the German idealist dead within recent memory , and Paul tried to assemble his thoughts on the matter as he again walked up Bath Street Lane . |
| 18 | She could not remember her dream , only that it had been about Edmund and that he loved her . |
| 19 | The picture ! — How eager he had been about the picture ! — and the charade ! — and an hundred other circumstances ; — how clearly they had seemed to point at Harriet . |
| 20 | ‘ The wood going into a 40 gallon barrel , it 's been about a hundredweight of wood . |
| 21 | I thought , I wonder if you knew cos he 's been about a lot lately . |
| 22 | They 've got two strikers that can cause problems have n't they , Colin Clarke , he 's been about a fair bit , and Guy Whittington had one really good chance where Ken Vasey made a very good save ? |
| 23 | So as I say , ours has been about a bit , it 's been borrowed by various people . |
| 24 | Many of them have been about cost-per-copy or ‘ copy-plan ’ contracts . |
| 25 | Most of them have been about the health warning on the advertisement being obscured or obliterated , some have referred to their being too close to schools . |