Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] be about " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must of been about what ? |
| 2 | Oh a couple of there 's youngsters , there what , those two boys that talk to us they must of been about , at the most eighteen I think , messing about getting chips and fish and burgers and stuff , rubbish . |
| 3 | Oh a couple of there 's youngsters , there what , those two boys that talk to us they must of been about , at the most eighteen I think , messing about getting chips and fish and burgers and stuff , rubbish . |
| 4 | it must of been about Tuesday , it must of been first day |
| 5 | It is difficult to share David Jones ' enthusiasm for the humble titration when one remembers all the argument there used to be about standardisation . |
| 6 | ‘ The great thing about pop music in the past is that it used to be about pushing everything . |
| 7 | There used to be about , a lot of them , there used to be a whole floor , er |
| 8 | Then we had to then fiddle about and get the chain up with a big pole and heave that up and we always knew that if a dumb hopper come back and they 'd what we used to call they 'd lost a door , one of the doors used to break , used to be about I would say erm eight doors in the hold , separate doors and if one of them broke they 'd fiddle about with a big , what we would call a pole with a hook on trying to get hold of the chain and we 'd see that there pole sticking up out of the hold , we knew they lost a door so what they used to do they used to leave with the dredger and we 'd finish that off before we load it , had to . |
| 9 | It too easily discards the spiritual dimension of human experience as attributable to some kind of personal or social pathology and it creates a taboo a bit like the one there used to be about sex . |
| 10 | Course i e , it 's very expensive now but it it only used to be about one and six a pound right up to the end of the war and it 's now two pounds a pound and |
| 11 | It used to be about the best bowling green in the in this part of the country . |
| 12 | It used to be about the best bowling green in the in this part of the country . |
| 13 | The Executive 's Lesbian and Gay Working Party made a number of points , primary of which was that a candidate 's family — if indeed they had one — was irrelevant to an election campaign which ought to be about the candidate 's political platform . |
| 14 | Handy accepted the appointment in 1977 as an alternative to joining the church , and his management thinking has always been marked by a belief that companies ought to be about more than performance and profitability . |
| 15 | House Funnily enough I was going to say to you when we were out at erm Dartington instead of buying that ice cream , we should of had a cup of tea probably would of been about the same price , and so |