Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I offered it for about eight hours a day , but they might send us somebody might . |
| 2 | Yes erm , erm I think I knew her from about six years ago when I |
| 3 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |
| 4 | I found it in a pawn shop and I was n't sure what it was , but I bought it for about 20 dollars . |
| 5 | I did it for about six months here and there . |
| 6 | I think I had it for about six or , six or seven weeks , something like that . |
| 7 | Right , that 's it , that 'll do , I wo n't go any further and I can get the other things in well we had er , we had an aluminium friend , a double glazed enormous window over our landing and it was , the aluminium was so cold and it was conden there was so much condensation that we had a new window P V C put in , but I tried to sell this other window , cos it was beautiful you see , nothing wrong with it except you know , but nobody wanted it and I kept it and I had it for about two years standing outside and then I thought I can use that and I cut , it was a three section , three lots of glass all in one , cut down , divide it into two and one , and got myself a plant house under the erm |
| 8 | I had it for about two weeks before I told him I 'd got it ! |
| 9 | So I left it till about twenty past eleven did n't I ? |