Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | my Lord , I , my Lord I do recall about five years ago I , remember advising one of the future 's markets and see come to the life of me remember what was in them |
| 2 | I 've had a weigh in once , I 've lost about five pounds |
| 3 | So for that two hundred francs more I 've lost about eight quid . |
| 4 | I think I 've lost about half a stone so far |
| 5 | I do n't think I have seen enough of Beeny to critize/praise him ( even though I 've seen about 12 live games this year ) . |
| 6 | I 've done about fifty percent I think . |
| 7 | Oh I 've done about four , but we were having trouble with he want 's some books he likes books , but wo n't give us a clue and |
| 8 | When he when we get when I 've done about two pages guess how much he 's done ? |
| 9 | I 've done about twenty or thirty pages but that 's |
| 10 | The only way I 've managed to get carers is to put up adverts in newsagents , and I 've done that twice — And I 've had about 30 people ring up through that , and a lot of them seem pretty good … ’ |
| 11 | There 's a woman nearby I 've known about 30 years who rescues cats and we agree there are less unwanted cats about . ’ |
| 12 | I 've counted about seventeen to twenty caravans . |
| 13 | I 've learnt about 60 I suppose overall and half of them are duds naughty words or words for something completely different . |
| 14 | Yeah , I 've taken about four or five . |
| 15 | Yes , I 've used about three tapes today . |
| 16 | ‘ Actually , I 've got about fifteen guitars but I have no interest in collecting them . |
| 17 | I 've got about twelve . |
| 18 | Just sad , I 've got about eight projects . |
| 19 | I 've got about six of his books in there ! |
| 20 | But another thing to be shown how to do it and that 's what , really what we want to try and do for the rest of the talk is to not just keep preaching at you and telling you what to do , but to show you how , so that 's the purpose of the talk from now on , now in this outline there are , I 've got about fourteen different points here and it 'll highlight ways in which we can er stay awake , what I 'm going to do is to read straight through them and then we 'll go back and pick a couple out , because it 's impossible to concentrate on the entire er amount , so we 'll do that , it 's er a number of things we can do to keep virtually awake keep up with the food at the proper time from Jehovah 's organizations that 's studying and things like that is n't it ? |
| 21 | Erm no I think I 've got about two weeks off . |
| 22 | And I got , I 've got about two hundred of these poly-foam chairs as well back |
| 23 | No , it 's got to be right , right , er big and I 'm going to stuff it with a plank of wood and put I 've got about two bushes and what the problem is , is you 've got get |
| 24 | I 've got wo I 've got about two earrings , and that 's it . |
| 25 | I 've got about two here |
| 26 | you know I mean I 've looked through the parasitology books I 've got about two of 'em it 's all cestodes and lima luminaries and and worse the jargon in biology |
| 27 | I 've got about five just now . |
| 28 | No , I 've got about five , no I 've got about four pairs the same . |
| 29 | er for special services I invite everybody , and I 've got about fifty on my books which I think I can afford to go around when I get there , can you do a couple , they live near you |
| 30 | I 've got about four sheets that Audrey gave me ! |