Example sentences of "[pers pn] be about the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel and I are about the same size , so no adjustments were needed , but the instant impression , on moving the black semi-circular yoke atop the long curving control column , was of absolute silky smoothness . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're about the same size as me , skip … |
| 3 | You 're about the same size as your Aunt Molly … ’ |
| 4 | Still you 're about the same height , and they 're obviously such good clothes . ’ |
| 5 | And she 's about the same size round but about five foot two . . |
| 6 | So she is about the same age as her stepson . |
| 7 | ‘ I felt I could do that with you , but it was more difficult with her — partly because she was about the same age as me probably . ’ |
| 8 | She was about the same age as his own daughter but she looked as if she had the troubles of the world on her . |
| 9 | We are about the same size , no ? |
| 10 | We 're about the same size . |
| 11 | ‘ They are about the same age and build , a man and a woman , but beyond that — Some inflammable substance had been poured on them , almost certainly petrol . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We did try swapping while our youngest children were tiny — they 're about the same age — but found that the erratic routines caused havoc . |
| 13 | They were about the same size and thickness as credit cards . |
| 14 | They were about the same age , but the embalmer seemed older . |
| 15 | long and it 's and it 's , it 's about the same colour as Hattie 's , a bit darker |
| 16 | It 's about the same price as a video . |
| 17 | At 13″ high , 13″ wide and 11″ deep , it 's about the same size as a Polytone Minibrute or a 40-watt Roland Cube , but do n't be fooled ; it weighs a healthy 29lbs and the power section pushes 120 watts into 8 ohms — in this case an eight-inch coaxial speaker with a separate tweeter . |
| 18 | Er we left at er seventeen minutes to two erm having explained that er we have put a very respectable budget on the table er which was prudence as prudence personified er and that was something we felt the other two groups of the Liberal Democrats were the only ones there at the time er besides them do that we 'd er I have to say to chairman that er the voted it is now being cobbled together er by the other two groups is eight hundred thousand pounds plus er in excess of the budget which the Conservative Group would want to see and just for the record , it 's about the same sum of money that we 've been saving on the fire cover in |
| 19 | Pleasant and nice songs I suppose I do n't know it 's just , quite like it , it 's now big , it 's about the most thing he 's ever recorded that I have liked , |
| 20 | It is about the same size as Rye . |
| 21 | It is about the same size as its jungle relative , weighing up to 100 lb ( 45 kg ) and measuring , nose to tail , as much as 7 ½ ft ( 2.3 m ) . |
| 22 | ‘ It is about the same risk as my drive from Oxford to London to take part in the jump . ’ |
| 23 | He 's about the same age as |
| 24 | The shuttle was n't much like a London bus in shape , but it was about the same size . |
| 25 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
| 26 | There were so many children that each one of the mothers and nursemaids thought that he must belong to somebody else , but as he was about the same size as the children and not much different to look at , he was able to make friends with some of them . |
| 27 | He was about the same height as his wife but he looked stooped now , and he was wearing a dressing-gown ; normally he was the epitome of tweedy country-squiredom , an archetypal laird in three-piece suit , clumpy shoes , checked shirt and cap ; he resorted to a beaten-up , much reproofed Barbour when the weather turned particularly foul . |