Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With annoying irrelevance it occurred to Quentin that the name of the film on the television screen was Three Smart Girls , which he 'd seen about thirty-five years ago , when he was a child himself . |
| 2 | He had retired he 'd retired about ten years . |
| 3 | Maxim knew he 'd had about 650 in the wallet . |
| 4 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 5 | I knew that he had given about 4,000 volumes , but I had kept this information to myself . |
| 6 | Over the past months , he had completed about three chapters of his second novel . |
| 7 | He varied his dancing routine with occasional headlong gallops round the lawn and it was after he had done about ten successive laps that he seemed to decide he ought to do something about the bitch . |
| 8 | He looked as though he had aged about twenty years . |
| 9 | He had recovered about two years of the thirteen since Elsie 's disappearance . |
| 10 | Gilmour Thom , 51 , an institutional salesman with Bell Lawrie White , told the court that after Mackie had briefed him on his meeting with Mr Runciman , he had sold about 1.5 million Shanks & McEwan shares at prices ranging from 305p to 318p . |
| 11 | He left his Kensington house to his wife , formerly Mary Everton , whom he had married about 1706 , and a legacy to their son William , who had been apprenticed to Philip Miller in 1722 . |