Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades |
| 2 | I 'd done about four sitcoms one after the other , and I was n't getting much time to do theatre which I really wanted to do . |
| 3 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 4 | ‘ And after about six months of work I 'd got about ten finished tracks together , and to be honest , they sounded great ! |
| 5 | At the end of all this I had lost about two stones and for the first time in my life , felt very nervy . |
| 6 | ‘ By this time I had waited about 15 minutes hanging on the phone and the clerk had not confirmed any booking . ’ |
| 7 | I had given about half of the statement to a copy stenographer by telephone ( a normal procedure ) when a man with a southern or midland English accent intervened . |
| 8 | I had walked about five hundred yards and yet only in this one spot , about as big in area as my dining table , had the normally silty bottom been cleared by the actions of the fish and clearly exposing masses of broken mussel shell fragments against which the zander stood out very boldly . |
| 9 | I had read about 1947 . |
| 10 | The legs started trembling and cramping à la Victor Meldrew and did not improve until I had sunk about six gallons of tonic water , minus gin I hasten to add . |
| 11 | She 'd missed about twenty keeps coming along , |
| 12 | and by time she 'd drunk about six glasses |
| 13 | She 'd got about six little normal dining chairs , and then there there were the carver chairs , she 'd got about six of those . |
| 14 | She 'd got about six little normal dining chairs , and then there there were the carver chairs , she 'd got about six of those . |
| 15 | On more than one occasion she has admitted to being very intoxicated and I understand that she has stated that she had consumed about 24 single measures of dry Martini and lemonade , together with some white wine . |
| 16 | After a few minutes she decided to take another two tables and then continued taking two at a time until she had swallowed about 30 . |
| 17 | Ms Anne Izza , press officer for NBT , said she had fielded about 300 calls as a result of the Mail on Sunday 's article . |
| 18 | At the far side of the church , old Mr Pugh , who had swallowed about half a kilo of compost , was coughing furiously . |
| 19 | A good place to begin is with the goals that you had reached about two weeks before you went on holiday . |
| 20 | So we 'd got about forty yards to march to the er the van before we even got that on board . |
| 21 | I remember one evening we went up to bed , and my head was just spinning because we 'd had about ten ten people had come in , some of them overlapping and some had you know but I 'd say at one stage we had about seven people in the flat together . |
| 22 | ‘ I think we had reached about 11,000 feet when the barrage opened up over Valetta and , against the white puffs , I saw seven biplanes heading directly towards us in a shallow vic formation . |
| 23 | We had travelled about 40,000 miles , spent 63 nights in ships , 21 nights in train sleeping-cars and visited 30 different cities in five different countries . |
| 24 | THERE we were , an hour into our journey for lunch , and we had gone about four miles . |
| 25 | We had gone about two miles in this order , when on turning a corner I saw a man sitting on the road , herding buffaloes . |
| 26 | I suppose we had gone about half the distance we had to cover , and then we broke into a trot and some of the men began to shout . |
| 27 | And er I got , they 'd got about twelve hundred members , and I think I got about a thousand , of course there were n't two of the men that knew and they voted . |
| 28 | Vested interests in Germany saw only what they wanted to see : namely that the Junkers were the traditional political and military leaders of German society , that they had brought about German unification and that this would make Germany into an industrial power of the first order . |
| 29 | They had walked about fifteen miles , when they passed a large empty house in the middle of the woods . |
| 30 | With annoying irrelevance it occurred to Quentin that the name of the film on the television screen was Three Smart Girls , which he 'd seen about thirty-five years ago , when he was a child himself . |