Example sentences of "i be about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ grounds ’ that most interest me are about 6in beneath those once trod by the aristocrats , so I 'm sure the snobbish doctor 's ghost will tolerate my company for an afternoon . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh Marius , at last I can tell you how dreadfully sorry I am about poor Sabine dying , and in such a cruel way . |
| 3 | ‘ I keep telling myself that it will stand me in good stead when I 'm about 40 and doing my first Isolde ! ’ |
| 4 | I reckon I 'm about £60 million and six years behind Alex Ferguson . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm about three inches taller , and unless he gets close with his hands held high , I know I can take him out . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm about seven kilos heavier than Gavin , ’ says Birchall . |
| 7 | I 'm about as much on my own here as a man with a dog that wants to be taken for a walk . |
| 8 | Now I 'm about 32 or 31 . |
| 9 | ‘ I think I 'm about ready to load . |
| 10 | ‘ Say I 'm about 56 and I 've got angina but I want to ride a horse . |
| 11 | So I 'm about er well the one that 's kept it up Mrs Cooper always going too . |
| 12 | It 's funny I mean I find I 'll say something , I 'll think oh so and so would like that and I 'm about other people 's kids , why they 're . |
| 13 | I 'm about six feet ta taller than he is ! |
| 14 | and I 've got three phone numbers to ring but I thought I 'd wait till the end of the week until I 'm about eleven and a half |
| 15 | And I 'm about six foot four and I 'll handle anyone that breaks in here . |
| 16 | All , all my windows have got locks on and I said I 'm about six foot four and anyone gets in here I 'll kill them . |
| 17 | I 'm about six foot four . |
| 18 | yeah , I 's about ten like that , when I was about eleven |
| 19 | My dad took me to watch Newcastle when I was about 10 but I could n't see because of all the people standing in front of me . |
| 20 | I was about thirty-four when I was made personnel director of the Nobel Division . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's something I learned when I was about four , ’ she tells us . |
| 22 | It was the sort of relationship I had with my earliest girl-love , the tomboy Isa , when I was about three or four years old , described in The Only Child . |
| 23 | I used to be flattered when I was about thirteen . |
| 24 | ‘ Then there was the big typhus epidemic when I was about six and she died . |
| 25 | I started working as a caddie in 1944 when I was about eight , and I earned a penny for every year . |
| 26 | I have not hit anyone since I was about 12 , ’ he says . |
| 27 | One of my school reports , when I was about nine , said of my history attainment , ‘ Molly writes a good story which is not always history . ’ |
| 28 | But of course , five years difference meant that he and I were not relating as equals until I was about sixteen , and then the war separated us . |
| 29 | We had no radio until I was about nine years old . |
| 30 | When I was about nine years old , my father had his first car . |