Example sentences of "[adv prt] about [art] [adj] [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authority had coincidentally tested the water for toxins on about the same day as the officer cadets had used it . |
| 2 | You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that . |
| 3 | The south-east of England , for example , is sinking by about the same rate as the water is rising — about 15 cm a century . |
| 4 | I 'd come across that and used that intravenously and thought well I really enjoy this and at the time the people who I knew were breaking into chemists and things , they used to come across very powerful substances , diamorphine , crystallised cocaine , morphine , that whole range of opiates and also amphetamines , black bombers and all the rest of it and then opium became more available on the streets and it was round about the same price as cannabis was at the time … . |
| 5 | Anyway erm so erm you sometimes also find with family situations , let's suppose in some situations you have some you have a daughter in the household who 's being abused by say the father or step-father , maybe if there 's a brother once he gets old enough to start becoming interested in sex , in some cases , although he 's round about the same age as his sister , can be um as it were inducted into the into the cycle of abuse erm can actually start participating when the dynamic 's already there . |