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Example sentences of "i [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He put me on a stretcher , had me carried about half a mile across fields to an ambulance , which in turn took me down to the local advanced dressing station .
2	Passed me test about twelve years ago .
3	I mean I tried , tried to er er done it in my book about my again and I read about two pages and I fell asleep .
4	The last time I made about half a pint of bread sauce , I lost half the bread sauce all over it !
5	the er children 's television show they they occasionally show a Newfoundland pulling a boat , well now that 's the film that I made about ten years ago and this Newfoundland pulled in the boat .
6	‘ I averaged about five queers a day .
7	I 've got about , you see I 've about ten minutes
8	yes , well I mean about two lots of minutes ago
9	I mean about ten pound is the cheapest and perhaps even twelve .
10	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 .
11	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 .
12	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 .
13	I made one stupid mistake in one of my books , about a car , and I got about 25 letters .
14	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 ?
15	Oh I got more than that actually I got about ten p .
16	He would n't let me say something and I tried about three times and in the end I just kept talking ,
17	like I say about ten to eleven , five to eleven said what are you doing then Bob ?
18	I recollect about half past ten that evening on the fourth .
19	I want about three or four inches off the bottom
20	I mean I spoke to Jane the other Sunday and I , I said to her you know , just be honest , I said I do n't care what you said , but just be honest and tell me how much you think I weigh , cos she does n't know how much I weigh and she thought I weighed about ten stone , I said well stick thirteen pounds on top of that , then you 'll be right , she could n't believe that I , that I weighed that much , so obviously it does n't look that bad and people at work , well they 've noticed that I 've lost weight , but they do n't say how much they think I weigh , so I do n't want come to them to sort of , have a , have a g have a guess of my weight .
21	I 'd about 25 leech bites on each foot , and about 10 leeches in each boot , all absolutely full of blood .
22	‘ I 'd about 25 leech bites on each foot , and about 10 leeches in each boot , all absolutely full of blood . ’
23	what I 've done , I done about seventeen of them .
24	As soon as I dropped about 70 feet down towards the restaurant , via the tourist runway with its ridiculous little suburban garden fences bordering the steps , the wind ceased and I stepped out of the snow .
25	‘ I received about 80 to 100 casuals each night .
26	I saw a gadget the other day that 's two , two plastic circles with handles on , mm , I think I paid about seven pounds and this was to gather up leaves and big lot of
27	I erm run about erm ten kilometres and with this E P O , I run about two and a half — three minutes faster than before .
28	I read about 3.54 , 4.3 and 3.9 , what do they mean , which is best and will it solve the problem or should I just change back to a standard cam ?
29	I finish about ten to one .
30	Seventeenth July — I joined about 20 Commandos from the various units around the village on a trip to a quiet part of the beach a few miles from our front-line positions .