Example sentences of "was [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Since hunting was stopped about twenty years ago , the behaviour of the seals has changed dramatically . |
| 2 | ( Why Jeffreys should choose to appear in a court at York is puzzling , especially in the wrong clothes for his time and in a building which was erected about 60 years later . ) |
| 3 | I was using about three fathoms of line — eighteen feet . |
| 4 | The hurricane-lamp was placed about twenty feet in front and pumped up to maximum brilliance while we lay sweating and mosquito-bitten in the shadows , fingering our cameras and the trigger of our temperamental Sun Gun , expecting that at any moment a curious snake would be drawn to the light from the shadows behind us , rather than from the cave ahead . |
| 5 | In Rumania , the Cathedral of Alba Iulia ( Gyulafehérvar ) was completed about 1239 but reconstruction was necessary after the Tartar invasion of 1242 ( 348 and 349 ) . |
| 6 | Now , where you get a big breakwater , erm the most spectacular example , historically , along the Sussex coast is the Newhaven breakwater , which , the present one was completed about eighteen ninety erm that 's just a very large groin , and on the west side of Newhaven breakwater and under the smaller breakwaters along the Sussex coast , you 've got the accumulation of gravel . |
| 7 | The technique was developed about five years ago by Dr Peter Hudson , Game Conservancy upland scientist . |
| 8 | Gorbachev noted that perestroika ( " restructuring " ) was bringing about rapid and unforseen changes which placed " new demands on state and public institutions " , especially the CPSU , which needed " drastically to restructure itself " , to rid itself of authoritarianism , bureaucratism and ideological dogmatism , and to " master the art of political work in present-day conditions " . |
| 9 | I used to tell him off for riding a bike without a light — summonsed him in the end and he was fined about ten bob . |
| 10 | A large grey Volkswagen van was parked about four houses along the street . |
| 11 | Rocky O'Rourke , in the cab of his big sixteen wheeler , was parked about twenty yards north of the gates . |
| 12 | I can remember being made to kiss these strangers , even when I was say about nine , eight or nine , I can remember feeling quite embarrassed about having to do it |
| 13 | Someone was interviewed about 639 of the deaths , 80 per cent of the original sample of 800 . |
| 14 | The last straw was located about 10 or 15ft from safety , at which handholds seemed to disappear altogether and aching feet were scrunched up the tiniest of ripples . |
| 15 | The mother was also alone in the ambulance with her daughter when she was transferred about 11 p.m. to the labour ward in another part of the hospital shortly before she signed the refusal form . |
| 16 | At this time the lift was passing about 150,000 tons per annum and , although a vertical lift , it was of roughly the same capacity as that at Foxton , which would therefore require similar maintenance . |
| 17 | ‘ In the early days I 'd say David was writing about 90 per cent of the songs . |
| 18 | And that meant in many cases , that the toilets were out in the garden and one toilet was serving about four houses . |
| 19 | When the collection was still in the palazzo ( it was moved about 60 years ago ) it was the most important private library in Milan . |
| 20 | Over the next five years he was moved about 20 times . |
| 21 | But I think the pre er well not the present A nine but the A nine that was there before they made the new one , it was made about eighteen thirty I think . |
| 22 | The first systematic study of intergroup competition was made about twenty years ago by Sherif and colleagues in the United States . |
| 23 | in Southwark , south-east London ; the first church on this site was built about 1122 , and the present edifice dates from 1736 . |
| 24 | ‘ It was built about 1660 by Lord Carteron . |
| 25 | Well I do n't know the exact date but I believe this house is some thirty years old , so it was built about nineteen fifty three , fifty two , fifty three |
| 26 | It was built about 16 B.C. and the fact that this area had once been a Greek colony probably accounts for its exceptionally fine detail and proportions . |
| 27 | The church , which is a gem of early English architecture , and which with the green is the focal point of the village , was built about twelve forty seven , aided by the treasurer of York Minster . |
| 28 | It was built about 1789 and stood to the southeast of Waterloo Bridge . |
| 29 | The cotton-mill at Northampton was built about 1741 , the first to be driven by a water-wheel , and Yeoman was responsible for equipping it with spinning machines of a new type developed by Lewis Paul and John Wyatt [ qq.v . ] . |
| 30 | It was built about 1675 for Sir Daniel Fleming , at a cost of £1 15 , by Robert Parke who was a local contractor and carter . |