Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] about " in BNC.
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1 | I did n't go to my father 's funeral and Mum did n't speak to me for about a year . |
2 | She studied me for about half a minute , then rearranged some of the knick-knacks on her stall . |
3 | Then he stared at the phone rather than me for about a minute until the door opened . |
4 | And he stayed with me for about half an hour looking after me . |
5 | yesterday right in the park and he hugged me for about ten years . |
6 | Cos he came round the next week and talked to me , he had a quick chat with me for about three hours ! |
7 | Shape the mixture into smallish hamburgers in the palm of your hands and , turning them once , grill them for about 5-7 minutes depending on how rare you like the meat . |
8 | Outgoing ministers may buy them for about £75 , but the boxes must be fitted with new locks to preserve the secret of their mechanisms . |
9 | People wanted to be the next model to sit and she 'd chat to them for about an hour and draw , and they 'd get a picture at the end of the session , just like you get in the street . ’ |
10 | ‘ At the first sign of the housing collapse , we brought in Coopers & Lybrand and worked with them for about a year . |
11 | I was doing chequebooks and cards , and I had a very good run on them for about four months , but what with taking drugs and that I collapsed one time when I was working out on the street . |
12 | Leave both glasses in the same place and keep an eye on them for about half an hour . |
13 | Erm , and I worked for them for about twelve or thirteen years , I suppose , trolling around sout south of England . |
14 | He says he worked with them for about seven months . |
15 | You 're only , I think you 're only supposed to use them for a , a few months , I 've been using them for about three years . |
16 | See those are cheap sets we can probably buy them for about twelve quid apiece could n't we ? |
17 | The Commission calculates , moreover , that the job of cross-checking between the customs departments of each member state into the validity of traders ' declarations would mean an exchange in electronic mail between them of about 20,000 million characters a year . |
18 | they 're saying that their fixing figures by not putting people on the waiting list so the waiting lists are shorter , because they 're putting , not , they 're saying that to people we ca n't treat you for about two years so I 'm not going to put you on the list at the moment , so they 're , cooking the books , that 's what they reckon |
19 | A mate of mine he says he wo n't tell you for about three or four years . |
20 | I can get if for you for about three pounds for the pure crystals . |
21 | Should I collect you at about eleven , then ? |
22 | Yeah if you , if you 're coming up you dare n't stop the driver and there 's things hurtling at ya , there 's kids on sledges coming at you at about fifteen miles an hour and you 'll have to try and drive around them and |
23 | In this way one can simplify the number of subproblems considerably and one can group them into about eight stages , each of which has about six sub-problems , and this becomes humanly comprehensible . |
24 | The children face them from about 3 metres away . |
25 | If using hangers , pad them to about three times the usual extent with acid-free tissue or with polyester wadding covered with white cotton ( which can also be used to pad out the shoulders and shapes of packed costumes ) . |
26 | Stewart stayed with him for about an hour and a half and Lamb hung around for a while , but Smith was his main ally and , as the day ebbed away , it seemed as though only the new ball stood between England and a draw . |
27 | I went up to him and gushed at him for about twenty minutes , told him we were making an album , asked him to sing on it and he said , ‘ Sure . ’ |
28 | She said that she had got ‘ quite dependent ’ on Roger — I suppose she may have known him for about thirty-five years . |
29 | I must have been chatting to him for about 20 minutes and he told me he 'd needed an urgent lift . |
30 | That way we can put the donkey in a field at about 11am and leave him for about six hours while people have other entertainment . ’ |