Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [vb pp] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The visitors ’ centre here opened about 18 months ago although the reserve has been open since 1977 and slowly we 're building it up . |
| 2 | I think I 've only said about three words in you 're doing all the chatting . |
| 3 | You 've only done about two words , then you have a break and then you go back to it and you get another three or four . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've only travelled about half a mile . ’ |
| 5 | We 've only got about two or three people in the whole house that do n't have a wheelchair if they go out . |
| 6 | but I mean they work on a sort of cash basis and er the lorries just drive up , get loaded up , course you just have to queue , he said if you get behind six or seven lorries by the time you 've got your load then you 've got to get back to where your doing the job , then you 've only got about two or three hours daylight left , this is why these , these obviously go round there , say do three or four in one area and you get one load get it out get the job done , you know , and when his paid out cash that time of the morning they the do n't care you have to pay |
| 7 | We 've only got about three minutes to go on that . |
| 8 | if you come back on the one before you 've only got about three and a half hours so you 've got four hours on the ferry , three and a half there and then four hours back again have n't you ? |
| 9 | I 've only got about three P . |
| 10 | Cos I said to her get some of that cough stuff cos I 've only took about three times this . |
| 11 | But I 've just explained about five times . |
| 12 | All day you feel as if you 've just had about ten handjobs . |
| 13 | You 've only had that car a fortnight and you 've already done about five hundred about four hundred and fifty pound worth of damage . |
| 14 | But I 've , I 've still got about two hours , at least er , to do . |
| 15 | We 've still got about ten or eleven I think , have n't we ? |
| 16 | How many pages have you done ? look at the spacing out I mean you 've probably got about three words . |
| 17 | So I 've got a number , I mean I started with , had had about fifteen , we 've now got about ninety six . |
| 18 | Not being musically inclined , I had no idea how much they meant to him , and I 've subsequently spent about 3 weeks in the dog house . |
| 19 | Most wintering reports come from the coast from Langney Point to the Midrips , particularly Rye Bay and , excepting passage birds , numbers further west have only exceeded about 10 birds in very cold weather . |
| 20 | ‘ It will be more like a home game for us than France as they have only sold about 20,000 tickets , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Principal environmental officer , Bernard Cribbs : ‘ We used to get lots complaints about dog packs but this year we have only had about two which shows how effective the scheme has been . ’ |
| 22 | They have already recruited about 150 workers to get the plant up and running — and at least another 250 jobs will be created . |
| 23 | Major banks have also swapped about eight billion dollars in debt for shares in profitable Third World companies . |
| 24 | While there are many success stories in terms of increased food supply ( China for example can feed its entire population of 1060 million ) such developments have also brought about environmental degradation . |
| 25 | Changes have also brought about better opportunities and more varieties of job with greater interest and challenge . |
| 26 | Farmers are quick to point out that the desire to retain hedgerows and other familiar landscape features emanates from exactly that social group — the ‘ urban mass ’ — whose demands for cheap food have indirectly brought about those changes which they so deplore . |
| 27 | A few gurus have undoubtedly brought about measurable change in industry . |