Example sentences of "he [was/were] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could only really believe it if the fire behind him was about 100 yards away he 'd be frying ! ’ |
| 2 | He was n't as close to Elsie as he had hoped but he was about two years closer and that was something . |
| 3 | He was about two and a half metres tall ; naked muscular chest and short dark hair . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | I think Jeanette said Tom had that problem cos he did n't speak until he was about two and a half and they thought he was you know a bit daft |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | He was about six months old and I did n't know what was wrong with me . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He was about six feet , went eighteen stone at least . |
| 10 | Wendy , and , but he 's certainly had an operation for the correction of a squint when he was about six . |
| 11 | His grandad had told him about that , years later , when he was about fifteen . |
| 12 | I think he was about fifteen . |
| 13 | He was about sixty years old , she thought , with a kind face that expressed a lot of spirituality . |
| 14 | He was wearing rough clothes , and he was about sixty , with a brown face and long grey hair . |
| 15 | Well , one year when he was about seventeen , Martin arrived to sort out my bicycle . |
| 16 | He was about seventeen or eighteen then . |
| 17 | But I do n't mind getting in in the family , but you I always remember , when David was growing up , he was about seventeen or eighteen , his friends came round , they were going out somewhere and grandma was there and she said to , er to us in front of erm David 's friends oh is n't he a pretty boy ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He was about four feet away when his foot caught in the electric flex he was dragging and he stumbled forward off balance . |
| 20 | He was educated in France , the family having moved to the Bouches-du-Rhône when he was about nine . |
| 21 | And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact . |
| 22 | Another strange job one of the younger lads did , he d he was about eighteen and er we went he went north to er north of Pickering to what do they call the forestry area there ? |
| 23 | Herbert , too , visited Australia when he was about sixteen . |
| 24 | The most explicit example is that of Thomas lord Scrope of Masham and Upsale , who inherited the title in 1476 , when he was about sixteen . |
| 25 | The most explicit example is that of Thomas lord Scrope of Masham and Upsale , who inherited the title in 1476 , when he was about sixteen . |
| 26 | Then , after that , living in Contention with Mr. James Russell until he was about sixteen . |
| 27 | Hanns Ebensten , who met John when he was about fourteen and quickly became his best friend , first heard of him from one of John 's fellow pupils , Inge May , who with her mother was a lodger at the Ebensten home ( they were all German refugees ) . |
| 28 | A stone in Altarnun churchyard , carved when he was about fourteen , shows a dove flying into the sun 's rays and a head of John Wesley over the door of Altarnun 's Methodist Chapel was carved when he was eighteen . |
| 29 | Yeah it 's amazing you know I was watching my son my son when he was about eleven or twelve practising his signature . |
| 30 | When he was about 10 , his family moved to Greenock , home port for his father , Captain of a sailing ship . |