Example sentences of "[vb past] about ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I spoke to Jane the other Sunday and I , I said to her you know , just be honest , I said I do n't care what you said , but just be honest and tell me how much you think I weigh , cos she does n't know how much I weigh and she thought I weighed about ten stone , I said well stick thirteen pounds on top of that , then you 'll be right , she could n't believe that I , that I weighed that much , so obviously it does n't look that bad and people at work , well they 've noticed that I 've lost weight , but they do n't say how much they think I weigh , so I do n't want come to them to sort of , have a , have a g have a guess of my weight . |
| 2 | The two cases that have been mentioned occurred about ten years afterwards , and these may have been removed against their will . |
| 3 | One example of the use of the weak anthropic principle is to " explain " why the big bang occurred about ten thousand million years ago — it takes about that long for intelligent beings to evolve . |
| 4 | Old Parnham phoned about ten minutes ago . |
| 5 | She carried herself differently and in her attitude , if not in her appearance , she seemed about ten years older . |
| 6 | There followed about ten minutes of what I guess you 'd call foreplay . |
| 7 | the er children 's television show they they occasionally show a Newfoundland pulling a boat , well now that 's the film that I made about ten years ago and this Newfoundland pulled in the boat . |
| 8 | A dinner was organized for the Euro campaign , we sold about ten tickets , we had to cancel . |
| 9 | Oh I got more than that actually I got about ten p . |
| 10 | yeah got about ten , I mean wh what chance has he got ? |
| 11 | And , I mean , actually on Christmas day we lost about ten people who 've been found ill . |
| 12 | My doorbell rang about ten o'clock on the Friday evening before Christmas . |
| 13 | This young man died about ten years ago and the railwayman maybe thirty years before . |
| 14 | Her husband , the old Baron , as the locals call him , died about ten years later . |
| 15 | It set off packed from top to bottom with Sheffield area anglers , fishing rods and maggots and dropped you off on the canal at Clayworth where George lived until he died about ten years ago . |
| 16 | He had a beautiful dream of riding Bones like you saw people on the television , leaping great fences , seen from low down so that they looked about ten feet high . |
| 17 | Another couple of girls , who looked about ten or eleven , were playing marbles ; they saw the strangers enter , stopped their game , sidled over and forced tired and dead smiles . |
| 18 | K. R. There was one occasion when we took about ten in . |
| 19 | One time in Houston , Texas , I stagedived and took about ten people with me . |
| 20 | I mean it took about ten minutes , quarter of an hour altogether . |
| 21 | That took about ten more seconds . |
| 22 | One time in Houston , Texas , I stagedived and took about ten people with me . |
| 23 | So how can they do , and it took about ten years to build this |
| 24 | Lucaroni appeared about ten minutes later , all apologies for the delay . |
| 25 | Mug with a museum picture on it and he bought about ten post cards , when got back to school . |
| 26 | I think he aged about ten years in one after that ! |
| 27 | On the closing date we had about ten entries and five judges , slightly better than last year . |
| 28 | By , by the end of the time when I er did the address I had about ten hearts all over the screen . |
| 29 | I had about ten staff working for me at that time , all girls and women , supervised by the Senior Clerkess , Emily Lightbody . |
| 30 | There was a printed card fixed above the doorbell which told me I had about ten minutes before visiting times were up . |