Example sentences of "got about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When me and Frank were in the in Lo in London we got about fifty of these bloody E mail catalogue come in the same address . |
| 2 | Then came Guildford , where the sitting Tory MP got about 7,000 more than he was meant to , and then Basildon . |
| 3 | And er the firm payed me er four shilling , a week , and er the man I was working with , he he , the rest of it was taken out of his er his er wage packet er and put into mine , and so I got about eleven and sixpence a week . |
| 4 | ‘ I have n't played guitar synth live for a long time , but what I use is a Photon MIDI converter , which I actually got about two weeks ago ; I put it on one of my Steinberger guitars . |
| 5 | I had about Friday night I finished work here at twelve and then up again at and I got about two hours sleep then and I started to . |
| 6 | probably got about two centimetres |
| 7 | Not that the senior management of Even Rudergrams saw it that way , of course , and it took nearly an hour 's arguing before I got about sixty per cent of my agreed fee . |
| 8 | And so er it it was a a reasonably good wage but when I first started of course I was n't on piece rate , you used to get a penny an hour , when we worked Saturday morning got about six and sixpence a week . |
| 9 | So claimed his after two years recently and got about six thousand pound . |
| 10 | Got it all in their living room they got about four bloody great boxes full of bread rolls ! |
| 11 | Hardly done any of them , got about five . |
| 12 | QPR vs Cov got about 7 mins ( and most of them were about the resignation and hardly any football ! ! ) |
| 13 | One of his chief claims to fame was that he got about thirteen kids , you know , , but a very very capable bloke . |
| 14 | well because there was three of us we went , it was seven hundred and one , like , their go , first bloke got a hundred and eighty , next one got a hundred and forty , this one got a hundred and twenty and me and Matt got about forty each and Rick and we were stuffed just bit , have you been watching any of the darts ? dead interesting |
| 15 | We got about erm on the first day we got about forty case . |
| 16 | ‘ My husband got about seven new pairs of socks for Christmas . |
| 17 | The only trouble is , it 's sporned so many , I think they got about twenty eight industrial groups ! |
| 18 | erm n they wo n't buy disks , they got about twenty sort of faculty heads |
| 19 | Oh I ca n't tell you that I would n't never discuss things like that , until I got about twenty five , you know neighbours or not , and I said why did they call him ? |
| 20 | Well they should take them off , only got about twenty ships left . |
| 21 | They I think they got about twenty per cent bigger . |
| 22 | Oh I got more than that actually I got about ten p . |
| 23 | yeah got about ten , I mean wh what chance has he got ? |
| 24 | Like I said , you got about thirty-six hours . ’ |
| 25 | A student at Sheffield university then , he recalls : ‘ When you blew into your handkerchief , you got about three tons of coaldust . |
| 26 | What happens if we 've got an emergency situation and how come when you got about three or four different authorities to deal with that matter and the other thing that has been said people said it to me , the question of building and in some parts of West Sussex we 've got concrete jungles and that itself can cause flooding because water does n't drain would do through natural resources through its natural well drain away . |
| 27 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 28 | I I thought like pictures of I 've got about like , got about three hundred and I 've still got five films too develop . |
| 29 | We sat in the garden today Luce and we got like , me Lucy and Tom and got about three pounds off all the little removes that came in |
| 30 | I made one stupid mistake in one of my books , about a car , and I got about 25 letters . |