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 . ’
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