Example sentences of "[pers pn] about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all sat round the van , the caravan about quarter to four and she 'd just got one , she 'd got one of her friends and they got theirs about quarter to four . |
| 2 | You may also have to pay if you 'd locked yourself out and wanted help getting back indoors ( this is in fact the only thing the London fire brigade ever charges for , and it would cost you about £99 ) . |
| 3 | It will cost you about £3000 to reach pilot standard . |
| 4 | At present rates , an average private education will cost you about £50,000 by the end . |
| 5 | A lead will cost you about £5 . |
| 6 | It 's only a ten minute ride from Bodrum by dolmus — which will cost you about 25p . |
| 7 | Over the years I reckon Raleigh Cycles and a highly developed sense of drama have cost me about £7,000 in porcelain and untold damages in gum-erosion . |
| 8 | It took me about quarter of an hour to sort it all out , and then she asked what train and said she 'd get her mum to agree to ‘ take in this ‘ Vern ’ or whatever his name is ’ and meet us at the station . |
| 9 | While shooting in the beautiful Maldives last year , it cost me about £200 for a model , plus the various costs of transport and hotel . |
| 10 | Now can you tell me about time signatures ? |
| 11 | I reckon she 's going to cost me about £800 in tax by the time we return to the US in 1995 . ’ |
| 12 | Colleges reckon their spell in Division II has cost them about £25,000 in lost sponsorship , bar takings , gate receipts etc — Saturday 's crowd of over 2,500 brought in more than the combined total of the previous home league matches — and there 's little doubt that defeat against Musselburgh would have had a catastrophic impact on the club . |
| 13 | For a good display , plant them about 100mm ( 4in ) deep , and no more than about 300mm ( 12in ) apart ; and for a more intense show , no more than 150mm ( 6in ) apart — the closer the better , but not touching . |
| 14 | Make rows 23cm/9in apart with a stick or hoe and plant them about 10cm/4in apart with the tips just out of the soil . |
| 15 | You could at least give them about £100 to pay for their expense . |
| 16 | Although only 10×20m , it encompassed nine trees , two of them about 7m high , and only 2m from the back of the house . |
| 17 | For this I gave them about 30p , which is rather a lot , & since then they have been running up to me when they see me , offering to polish up my briefcase etc . |
| 18 | On the evidence of recent season this could cost him about £30 . |
| 19 | She hired a hit-man from Le Havre called Bruno Dassac , once a member of the Zemour gang , and paid him about £14,000 to do the job . |
| 20 | According to her sums , Labour 's tax and pension proposals would make her about £40 a year better off . |
| 21 | A small local chain of bookshops seeking to identify its strengths and build a strategy in the face of a large chain moving into two of its five towns would probably find that research cost it about £4,500 . |
| 22 | Extend the top leg forwards as far as possible and then stretch it forwards and back 30 times , moving it about 3ins ( 7.6cm ) each time . |
| 23 | Extend the top leg forwards as far as possible and then stretch it forwards and back 35 times , moving it about 3ins ( 7.6cm ) each time . |
| 24 | Erm I do n't know when They they they play it about quarter past er no about quarter to seven |
| 25 | and I boiled it about quarter to five and I thought |
| 26 | He estimated that ‘ an extra year of elementary or secondary schooling really boosts future income less than 4% ; an extra year of college boosts it about 7% and a year of graduate school boosts it about 4% , There can be legitimate disagreement whether these figures indicate only a small effect of schooling on income . |
| 27 | He estimated that ‘ an extra year of elementary or secondary schooling really boosts future income less than 4% ; an extra year of college boosts it about 7% and a year of graduate school boosts it about 4% , There can be legitimate disagreement whether these figures indicate only a small effect of schooling on income . |
| 28 | Today , the worldwide value of the total catalyst market is about $2 billion — and the value of goods deriving from it about $200 billion . |
| 29 | Mark the pipe with a pencil and withdraw it about 10mm |
| 30 | And for those who say that some pubs are unsuitable for children because they might have some evil influence , then is n't it about time those pubs were cleaned up ? |