Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that 's basically lost about five hundred quid a set |
| 2 | Erm the hearth , the hall with the original floor is still preserved about nine inches down underneath a layer of three inches of sand to preserve it . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's the best thing about Mark ; he may have scored 28 goals himself , but he 's probably created about half of our goals entirely , ’ says his Ibrox team-mate John Brown . |
| 4 | The Hotel Des Etrangers is centrally located about 250 yards from the Piazzo Colombo and a few minutes walk from the Via Matteotti . |
| 5 | He said , well I only live next door you know in a , in a village school quite obviously they all lived nearby and he was only gone about two or three minutes and he came back and once again , the young lady will know , but erm men might not know , I know , skirt hangers , you know skirt hangers , they 're on springs are n't they ? |
| 6 | It was only demolished about eighteen , nineteen seventy . |
| 7 | or , Thomas ( c. 1490–1555 ) , king 's printer under Henry VIII , was probably born about 1490 , since in his earliest testimony , under the surname Bercula , he named himself as printer and servant to John Rastell [ q.v. ] during the latter 's unsuccessful attempt to sail to the new world in 1517 . |
| 8 | which was probably written about twenty or thirty years ago but recognised that his own congregations would be very suspicious of them ! |