Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] about seven " in BNC.

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1 Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object .
2 ‘ Oh , I know it 's wrong to believe in such things , but Lilith could n't have known about seven , could she ? ’
3 I say , I 've got a lounge , bedroom , the hall , and the bathroom and I 've got about seven hundred pounds and that 's about it , so erm
4 Well I do n't mind doing one card , but I hate it when I 've got about seven or eight of them chuffing things !
5 Now we 've got about seven books out .
6 Erm out of the ten , I would say , we have got about seven above target , and three below target .
7 With the help of a friend and my brother , to date we have fitted about seven full systems , some of them for brokers that I call on .
8 But it 's lasted about seven year , so you never can organ but once we did start I did enjoy the ones over here because over there when your kids were small you did n't go out much anyway but now that your kids are up you 've got it , and personally I enjoyed the ones that started but they do n't have Christmas dance , barn dances and things like this , they do n't org we have to have to organize like that ourself .
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