Example sentences of "he have about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grayling reckons that he has about another two years of research to do before he can come up with a conclusive report . |
| 2 | As a result , at least off the track and in business , he had about him only sycophants . |
| 3 | He had about a pound on him , in small change , which would buy no more than a chocolate bar and a couple of packets of crisps . |
| 4 | He had about £1,000 in it . |
| 5 | Tall , ruddy-faced and tending to corpulence in his early forties , he had about him the self-satisfied air of a man who has already achieved some measure of public acclaim ; he wore his thick shock of fair hair brushed across his forehead from a centre parting in two matching wings , and his upper lip was thatched with a fashionably luxuriant mustache . |
| 6 | ‘ My father turned farmer — well , small farmer : he had about two hundred acres ; and my brother and I spent days in the fields . |
| 7 | Now he , he had about he about seven or eight kids I think , he must have done , yeah . |
| 8 | He had about another ten paces to go to the next parked car , within the wheelbase of which he would be safe from the laser-axles of the passing traffic . |
| 9 | Armed with illustrations , specifications and his own ideas about his target market , plus knowledge of any built-in prejudices he had about the kind of media he preferred — TV , newspapers , posters , et cetera — plus of course the size of the budget he was prepared to allocate , she would be able to report with the least possible delay to Sebastian Grantham . |
| 10 | He had about a dozen lorries on the road , and machines er working the roads there , all they were working for nothing for him , these lads and he 'd come along and before Christmas he 'd stop a couple of them , just before Christmas , he used to do that every year . |
| 11 | And in particular , she did not like at all that he had felt it necessary to give Lubor the instructions he had about her . |
| 12 | He had about thirty pictures to hang , and he had to measure it wall so it was spot on and he want , he wanted them all upstairs , he did , one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight about twelve just downstairs in the hall way |
| 13 | We could n't get him and he had about this much off . |
| 14 | A sort of thing , before he got to Colchester he did a lot of work in his quarters , he had about four daughters . |
| 15 | He had about forty or fifty ! |
| 16 | He , he had about half a dozen shots and there was n't one of them that |
| 17 | He had about three thousand pounds worth of C D in his car . |
| 18 | and he had about four bowlfuls and he was |
| 19 | He had about five or six Polos there , and of course they 're all nice and shiny are n't they ? |
| 20 | oh I , I mean , he sit inside , normally he 'd have the present , he chucked his glasses off , he stuffed all his hankies , he had about ten hankies in his pocket |
| 21 | No , there was hardly anybody at our English seminar this morning , it was so funny , he had about five of us sitting there , we go , |