Example sentences of "[been] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to this the picture must have been painted about 1588 , with which the style and the age of the sitter agree . |
| 2 | The police said that a telephone warning had been received about 30 minutes before the explosion but the caller had been " deliberately misleading " about the location of the bomb . |
| 3 | To the point where the tour had been cancelled about four times . |
| 4 | The tour had been cancelled about four times . |
| 5 | It 's been done , it 's been done about two weeks |
| 6 | A rough fireplace surrounded by stones had been built about two metres in front of it , and grey ash fitted the centre of the ring . |
| 7 | It was a very sound brick structure and had been built about 1868 but it had the notorious reputation of being called ‘ Lover 's Leap ’ , no doubt due to the fact that several suicide attempts had been made from its high parapet , most of them fatal . |
| 8 | All seven have full-time jobs but all have been averaging about 50 miles a week in training recently . |
| 9 | We have n't got to the reselling stage with these yet because we 've been going about six months so the first resale is eighteen months away . |
| 10 | possible evidence for this view can be seen in the only surviving thirteenth-century picture of a Western water-clock , which seems to have been used about 1250 in Paris at the court of Louis IX . |
| 11 | The former boys school is thought to have been founded about 1670 by a member of the Boynton family . |
| 12 | He was an engineer and erm he he was he made co , he worked on conveyers and things and then he changed his occupation became a civil servant and he worked at the Admiralty down on Templefields until it closed about ten years , cos my husband has been retired about five years now . |
| 13 | yes , its been rewound about five times to tape over Rupert 's swearing , you just have to leave it now |
| 14 | Thomas Garvine ( possibly an early version of the surnames Garven and Girvan common in Ayrshire at present ) is thought to have been born about 1685 , in or near Kilmarnock , although the Earl of Loudoun 's intervention on his behalf suggests that he may have had an Irvine valley connection . |
| 15 | And neighbour Violet Miller said : ‘ He must have been doing about 90 miles an hour . |
| 16 | The Nuffield has been treating about two and a half thousand routine cases every year . |
| 17 | in a corner house and she 's been burgled about five times , in |
| 18 | Er but that 's been taking about six years now |
| 19 | In Europe the only flows of any consequence occur on small volcanic islands in the Mediterranean , the most famous of all being those on the island of Lipari , which are thought to have been erupted about 1,400 years ago . |
| 20 | The company has been making about 300,000 16Ms a month and NEC said that figure will easily climb higher than 2m chips a month with added production from the California factory and a new facility under construction in Japan . |
| 21 | Zoned fares have been pitched about five per cent higher than BR 's , ranging from a minimum 70p standard single to a £4.90 return , with the furthest-flung commuters paying £729 for an annual season ticket . |
| 22 | It 's been a hectic schedule , because for the last 20 years I 've been playing about 300 gigs a year , including trips to the Northern Territories and the South West . ’ |
| 23 | The fort is believed to have been constructed about four centuries before Christ by an Iron Age Celtic society . |
| 24 | and er just at the very end all you could see was her and your man , the hologram and he 'd just been killed about five minutes earlier . |
| 25 | The earliest French works now accepted as fabliaux date from the last decade of the twelfth century and the latest seem to have been composed about 150 years later , somewhere around 1340 . |
| 26 | He 'd been married about two months when he went to bed one night and woke up the next morning and he was back in the field and 17 again . |
| 27 | Deceased 's father , with Thomas Hawkswell [ sic ] set out as a search party , and eventually traced the ‘ footings ’ of the missing man … to the old Groove house , and found the lifeless body of young Brown lying just outside the dilapidated building , with his faithful dog watching over the remains of its departed master … the deceased had been married about nine months but he , however , resided with his father at Blackton , while his wife lived with her mother at Bowes , pending their securing a farm and home to themselves , a consummation well within sight at the time of this untoward happening — this mysterious interposition , which surely intimates eternity to man … ‘ |
| 28 | They 'd been married about four years now , and while their apartment was n't exactly a centre of domesticity , it was a Mecca for all kinds of zany characters who had something interesting to offer . |
| 29 | The whole must have been rewritten about five times . |
| 30 | The mine in the gill had been established about 5 years but it is very likely that it would have been an old working re-opened . |