Example sentences of "she [was/were] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her parents had done birthday parties on a grand scale until she was about thirteen . |
| 2 | There was a stage , when she was about thirteen , when I think Shanti had what psychologists would term an identity crisis . |
| 3 | She was momentarily back in time to when she was about thirteen , staying up to watch the glitter and excitement that the sight of one man had brought , watching every televised re-run as the whole country had gasped and applauded a young Spaniard whose handsome arrogance and amazing equestrian skills had held them enthralled . |
| 4 | There was one girl there today , she was about fifteen or seventeen and she had to put her coat on over the top of the gown because it was |
| 5 | Q My two-year-old mongrel bitch was spayed after her first season — when she was about six months old . |
| 6 | He guessed that she was about six . |
| 7 | Sheila stayed in one until her daughter was born and adopted ; Denise left London to live in the West Country on her own , and organised a place in one for herself and her eight-week-old baby ; and Lisa went into one when she was about six months pregnant . |
| 8 | But when she was about six weeks old things got a bit more serious . |
| 9 | Elsie lived but we know very little about her beyond a few basic facts : she married an older man who was rather irascible and treated her badly ; she disappeared in mysterious circumstances when she was about twenty-six ; her body was discovered a year ago on the bed of the filled-in Loch Craig . |
| 10 | When she was about fifty metres away from the building she heard some people behind her , but she did not stop . |
| 11 | She was about fifty miles from the murder scene . |
| 12 | After that she went into service and there she stayed until , when she was about twenty-two years of age , her brother came to tell her he was married and to ask her if she would leave her employer and come to look after his wife who was expecting a baby . |
| 13 | She was about twenty-two or three , with glasses and a washed young face . |
| 14 | Gesner decided she was about twenty-two or -three , younger than Ingrid , who looked quite good until you saw her against a really pretty girl , like this one . |
| 15 | Wainwright was enormously enthusiastic , as she was about many things . |
| 16 | Then , as she was about halfway along the trees of Wardle Wood , the storm , which had been rumbling and threatening all the way , burst . |
| 17 | She was about eleven , with long red hair in two plaits . |
| 18 | Without it doctors said she 'd only live till she was about eleven or twelve . |
| 19 | Her family had come to Bradford when she was about fourteen . |
| 20 | Mary had begun to visit her regularly on Friday mornings — with Mr Fenton 's express approval and the Christian support of her mother — when she was about fourteen — at about the time her father had begun to use her in the Fish and Budworth had turned up to sketch his mischief . |
| 21 | She was about seventeen years old , with long dark hair in disarray around her face . |
| 22 | Oh , Harry , she was about seventeen , with dark brown hair and a face like a flower . |
| 23 | She was about nineteen years old at the time , as I was . |
| 24 | She was about nineteen , twenty then . |
| 25 | Eventually it was he who told her mother when she was about eight months pregnant : " We 'd been planning it for ages to tell them but we had n't had the nerve to get round to it . |
| 26 | Lisa , who did n't tell anyone until she was about eight months pregnant said : |
| 27 | and she said well we 've got , for instance , one of my favourite patience is the girl of er , I think she 's nineteen , and er , she 's in their because her father had raped her since she was about eight , when she was sixteen she killed him , well I said well I think she should have been given a medal . |
| 28 | Because my elder sister she left home when she was about sixteen I think , she went erm into she was working there as a matron 's maid . |
| 29 | She was about thirty-seven , tall and spare , with spiky grey-streaked hair . |
| 30 | There was one little girl there called Isobel , who must be twenty-something now , but she was about nine then , and a right handful . |