Example sentences of "i [be] about [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I 'm about 32 or 31 . |
| 2 | and I 've got three phone numbers to ring but I thought I 'd wait till the end of the week until I 'm about eleven and a half |
| 3 | ‘ Say I 'm about 56 and I 've got angina but I want to ride a horse . |
| 4 | I 'm about six feet ta taller than he is ! |
| 5 | And I 'm about six foot four and I 'll handle anyone that breaks in here . |
| 6 | All , all my windows have got locks on and I said I 'm about six foot four and anyone gets in here I 'll kill them . |
| 7 | I 'm about six foot four . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm about seven kilos heavier than Gavin , ’ says Birchall . |
| 9 | I 'm about three inches taller , and unless he gets close with his hands held high , I know I can take him out . |
| 10 | ‘ I keep telling myself that it will stand me in good stead when I 'm about 40 and doing my first Isolde ! ’ |
| 11 | yeah , I 's about ten like that , when I was about eleven |
| 12 | I had a few problems when I was about thirty and my doctor told me it was just my age and the menopause ! |
| 13 | And he said he was working with an old fellow which is getting on in age and he was quite absent minded and he said , I was about thirty feet from the ground on a ledge er filling er s a hole ready for shot for blasting and the old fellow was about twenty feet higher than him and then he was ss er whatsit another hole and then a at the top of the chamber there 's a little hole , he said , like a roof we call it which is a little passage that goes up into the next floor and then we used that as an escape route he did n't have to go far . |
| 14 | Oh , right up until I was about thirty five , thirty eight , forty |
| 15 | When I was about II , my mother bashfully confided to me that " babies came out of their mummies ' tummies " ! |
| 16 | Then , when I was about 18 or 19 I figured that I 'd learned every rock guitar lead that I ever wanted to know — all my favourite Ulrich Roth solos and all my favourite Frank Marino leads . |
| 17 | I tried when I was about 18 , 19 . |
| 18 | I had asthma as a lad and also developed an ulcer when I was about 16 . |
| 19 | Well opiates , I began to dabble with them when I was about 16 , after experimenting with cannabis , amphetamines , LSD , opium , and moving in a circle … . |
| 20 | I was about 16 and I had a huge crush on him . |
| 21 | I came across him when I was about 14 or 15 , and although I 'd played Chet Atkins-style fingerpicking before , it had n't occurred to me to use the bottleneck in conjunction with fingerpicking . |
| 22 | When I was about 14 , I remember my sister and I pledging quite seriously to grow up and defy convention ; to be women who still wore jeans and long hair at 30 . |
| 23 | I 'm not big on soaps , though I was in The Newcomers for five weeks when I was about 14 or 15 . |
| 24 | ‘ I first started writing songs when I was about 14 , because I knew that the first song I 'd put down would be so crap I thought I 'd get all my ideas out of the way first , and then I 'd start getting all artistic , ’ explains Tony . |
| 25 | For London-born pro footballer Vince Hilaire , the realization was more gradual : ‘ I did n't really think about the black and white thing until I was about 14 or 15 . |
| 26 | ‘ Then there was the big typhus epidemic when I was about six and she died . |
| 27 | I need my dream , I 've got to have it — like I had to have that fairy-and-goblin curtain material when I was about six and I thought I 'd die when Mum said No , we must have the blue flowery material because it would outlast my six-year-old fairy-and-goblin phase . |
| 28 | I was about ten or eleven at the time , but I had ‘ known ’ since I was about six . |
| 29 | Then , I do n't know how many years we had down the street , but we moved when I was about six years old up the street near the church . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've collected records since I was about 11 ’ , he says , confessing to an early case of the vinyl addiction that is a prerequisite for any DJ worth his or her Technics . |