Example sentences of "he [be] about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is about nine years old , and has a fierce frown etched on his otherwise unsullied face . |
| 2 | Stefan , sucking his miracle tablets at the back of the stalls , muttered to the Direktor , ‘ He 's about fifty years out of date . |
| 3 | He 's older than me oh he 's a lot older , he 's about fifty Johnny |
| 4 | He 's about 5 ft 2 ins tall and quite plump . |
| 5 | He 's about eight weeks old . |
| 6 | He 's about six feet tall and clean shaven . |
| 7 | He 's about six foot two , short black hair , moustache , blue eyes and according to his record card he 's twenty seven and his name is John Banks and he lives at 36 Church Hill Road , Upper Tracey , and we think he 's been shot , I 'll be right over , stay where you are . |
| 8 | Yes , he 's about five foot eleven ! |
| 9 | He 's about five foot tall . |
| 10 | Mind you you 've only got ta look at Jane 's boyfriend and he 's about two pound weakling ! |
| 11 | ‘ He 's about twenty years old , ’ Anna thought . |
| 12 | There 's Robin Smith , who 's moved a little straighter in fact , you ca n't call him silly point now , he 's more of a silly mid-off , on that 's sort of line , and he 's about three yards on bat , two men out , deep on the leg side , there 's tough on the who 's hoisted that one away on the leg side , I think that could well be safe for , who 's chasing wicket , two bounce it 's over the rope , and four more runs to , he 's kept up his one hundred per cent boundary rate , moves on to twenty , five fours , and it , again , his eye very much on that short leg side boundary and Tufnell and Gooch they 're having further consultations and that leg side field being adjusted again . |
| 13 | He was n't as close to Elsie as he had hoped but he was about two years closer and that was something . |
| 14 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 15 | He was about six feet , went eighteen stone at least . |
| 16 | Jacky first took an interest in golf when he was about six years old : ‘ When I was old enough to be able to walk the mile or so to the course . ’ |
| 17 | She could only tell me that Wesley 's father had left home when he was about six years old , that his mother had remarried and the boy now lived with her and his stepfather . |
| 18 | He was about six months old and I did n't know what was wrong with me . |
| 19 | He was about sixty years old , she thought , with a kind face that expressed a lot of spirituality . |
| 20 | He was about thirty years as as erm secretary of the Glen Ayloch gathering and somebody made up a pipe tune and called it Graham 's Tune . |
| 21 | He was about four feet away when his foot caught in the electric flex he was dragging and he stumbled forward off balance . |
| 22 | He was about 5 foot 10 inches tall but immensely powerful . |
| 23 | When he was about 18 years old , Richard Baxter was almost persuaded , by Mr. Wickstead of Ludlow , to abandon his ambition to enter the ministry . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not waiting for you , ’ shouted Dyson when he was about fifty yards away . |
| 25 | The driver did n't see the seats until he was about 200 yards away . |
| 26 | He had been shooting since he was about five years old ; there were few clubs or competitions around at the time but the Scorton was one of the leading ones . |
| 27 | Until I arrived , he had always been the smallest person in the country ( he was about ten metres tall ) . |
| 28 | But they had this goalkeeper , do you remember him , his name was Thomasescu , he was about ten foot two , eyes of blue , and he stopped everything , Kevin Hector had a go , Alan Clarke , they all did , even Peter Shilton in goal . |
| 29 | He was about ten feet away . |
| 30 | In fact he was about ten years younger — a chubby young man with a very smoothly-shaven pink face , bulging urbanely under the jaw . |