Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] about ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | P : I was coming home from a party with Robert Mitchum drinking cider when one of Shane 's gang came out and stabbed me in the arm … ( goes on for about ten more pages — Freudian Ed ) |
| 2 | ‘ She does n't come on for about ten minutes . ’ |
| 3 | This went on for about ten evenings and at the end of it all he had lost a stone in weight and had attracted the waterfowl from the entire county ! |
| 4 | but of course that does n't leave me much to talk about , becau , however he managed to go on for about ten minutes |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been canoeing off and on for about ten years , but this is my first venture on the open sea , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Just to complete the amazing change in fortunes , Mike Allingham ripped on to a short lineout throw from Kenny Milne , who then took his scrum-half 's pass and bullocked his way over from about ten metres out , Lawrie adding the two points . |
| 7 | He is only 1lb better off for about ten lengths . |
| 8 | Ignore how you feel when you first wake and take note instead of how you feel after you have been up for about ten minutes — many people find those first waking moments difficult to cope with . |
| 9 | More news from casualty corner : this week 's cover stars THERAPY ? compromised themselves just a tad during their KEVIN CUMMINS photo session when drummer FYFE calmly excused himself , walked out of shot mid-click and proceeded to chuck his guts up for about ten minutes . |
| 10 | Chairman in your haste to get your own way for once , I mean , I had my hand up for about ten minutes and I thought that er , er our friend on your right had appraised you of that , because I think that you gave just as much a distorted view of what the real problem is , as perhaps Mr did , and I think that the way you railroaded that one through does you no credit at all . |
| 11 | I went straight over and I did n't get up for about ten minutes . |
| 12 | Last time if you were n't sure which to make we were allowed to come up with about ten papers |
| 13 | Well if I could choose I would go to bed at about two o'clock in the morning and get up at about ten o'clock in the morning . |
| 14 | I was up at about ten I suppose . |
| 15 | No , he came out for about ten minutes then he said I 'm going back in the house mummy , just then flopped on the chair |
| 16 | Yeah they came back in about ten cos the pizza , we was eating our pizza |
| 17 | ‘ Could you come back at about ten o'clock tonight … ? ’ |
| 18 | They would come around at about ten and place their lamps out . |
| 19 | Now , if you were out and about at about ten o'clock last night you may have seen a greenish glow in the sky . |