Example sentences of "and [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came towards me and stopped about 10 to 15 yards away , put his hand inside his bomber jacket and brought out a monster hand-held cannon which he pointed in my direction . |
| 2 | ‘ We drove in after him and stopped about six or seven spaces away . |
| 3 | The disc revolves at a constant speed , holds 54,000 frames per side , and offers about thirty minutes of straight playing time on each side . |
| 4 | Traditionally , men have communicated through the media on behalf of all humankind , influencing public opinion , and bringing about political , economic and social change from their point of view . |
| 5 | More fundamental doubts about the war were expressed by Richard de Bury Bishop of Durham in his Philobiblion , where he said that ‘ war , wanting discretion of reason , furiously attacks whatever falls in its way , and not being under the guidance of reason it destroys the vessels of reason ’ , and he beseeched ‘ the ruler of Olympus and the most high Dispenser of all the world , that he may abolish war , establish peace , and bring about tranquil times under his own special protection ’ . |
| 6 | The introduction of the national curriculum and schemes for the local management of schools will build on that framework and bring about further improvements in provision for such children , not just in primary schools but throughout the state system . |
| 7 | Fishing on porpoise is unique to the Eastern Tropical Pacific ( ETP ) , a stretch of ocean extending from southern California to Chile and including about 11 million square kilometres ( 6 million square miles ) of sea . |
| 8 | The project is headed by the ministry 's Electrochemical Laboratory and involves about 10 major robot , computer and machinery manufacturers . |
| 9 | Ham ( 1985 ) reports that the private sector provides 5 per cent of acute beds , 8 per cent of all beds and receives about 8 per cent of all non-emergency admissions to acute hospitals . |
| 10 | A sleek blue BMW purred past him and halted about ten yards ahead . |
| 11 | So claimed his after two years recently and got about six thousand pound . |
| 12 | We sat in the garden today Luce and we got like , me Lucy and Tom and got about three pounds off all the little removes that came in |
| 13 | High mountains border the north coast , and spaced about eight miles apart are the hamlets of Çokertme , Ören and Akbuk , each in a dramatic setting and each with a restaurant . |
| 14 | She also collects teddy bears and has about fifty of them . |
| 15 | The unit is based in Palo Alto , California , away from the corporation 's headquarters in Mountain View , and has about 12 to 15 people to start with , including James Gosling , author of NeWS , the Network-extensible Windowing System . |
| 16 | I started at the Grosvenor and visited about thirty-five before I stopped . ’ |
| 17 | The economists had a tremendous year erm , really bucking the trend and contributing about five million pounds to er , F T's er , associates profits . |
| 18 | The Sleeping Saloons of the same era were of the same dimensions and weighed about 40 tons . |
| 19 | Also in the city is the Storkyrkan , the church of S. Nicholas , founded in the early thirteenth century and rebuilt about 1306 . |
| 20 | At Tall Sukas between Tripolis and Laodikeia ( Latakia ) , the Danish excavator P. J. Riis found a Greek settlement with a temple which seems to have been built in the seventh century and rebuilt about 570 B.C. The Greeks remained at Tall Sukas at least until 500 B.C. to trade with Palestinians of any religious and national variety . |
| 21 | The Library currently receives approximately 1,500 journal titles , and holds about 120,000 volumes of current and lapsed titles . |
| 22 | I would like to make a few comments , as a mainly urban cyclist who also rides for recreation and covers about 9,000 miles a year . |
| 23 | Emptying hundreds of bins and walking about 20 miles . |
| 24 | The summons was heard as an ordinary Friday summons in the Commercial Court and occupied about 20 minutes . |
| 25 | The ‘ Countryman ’ undertakes a complete run departing Alresford at 13.10 and returning about 15.00 supplying mince pies and sherry along the way . |
| 26 | Unravel and flatten about 1.5 metres of paper twist and cut in half along its length . |
| 27 | Measuring 51 cm ( 20 in ) in diameter , the table is made from 12 mm ( ½″ ) chipboard and stands about 61 cm ( 24 ″ ) high . |
| 28 | She was only seventeen and looked about twelve . |
| 29 | He had red hair and looked about two years older than me . |
| 30 | A battery of stamps consisted usually of four wooden baulks placed vertically , riding in guides , each shod with heavy iron heads which were lifted alternately by means of cams on a revolving axle , acting upon lifters or tappets affixed to the sliding baulks , The stamps were raised and dropped about 12 inches , at a rate best able to cope with the material fed . |