Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | yesterday right in the park and he hugged me for about ten years . |
| 3 | See those are cheap sets we can probably buy them for about twelve quid apiece could n't we ? |
| 4 | And he 'd make sure he used me till about nine o'clock . |
| 5 | I came storming through , caught him with about five metres to go and won in 10.23 seconds . |
| 6 | But you liked those erm were they countryman 's or ploughman 's in a packet and you just throw them into the pan and cook it for about fifteen minutes ? |
| 7 | She studied me for about half a minute , then rearranged some of the knick-knacks on her stall . |
| 8 | Should I collect you at about eleven , then ? |
| 9 | You 've , you 've missed him by about two bloody minutes basically , oh , okay then mate , no problem , cheers . |
| 10 | She put her arms around his neck , and Edouard managed to resist her for about thirty seconds . |
| 11 | ‘ We should be able to track him for about half a mile , but with all these buildings we 'll be lucky to get two hundred yards . |
| 12 | Have n't seen him for about two weeks . |
| 13 | I remember meeting him at about 6 o'clock one morning in an airport in the United States . |
| 14 | I ai n't seen her for about two months . |
| 15 | We have n't seen her for about ten , twelve years and er |
| 16 | Margaret she 's coming to this do we 're going to , I have n't seen her for about forty years . |
| 17 | It took them what she reported it as soon as the office opened and they 'd done it at about ten twelve time . |
| 18 | Despite a turnover of plants in the 1960s and early 1970s , employment was maintained until the mid-1970s when a CDP study estimated it at about 4800 of whom 50% were women . |
| 19 | For the past 100 years , art historians , including Sir John Pope-Hennessy , have accepted the sculptured figure as being the work of Tullio Lombardo , dating it from about 1525 . |
| 20 | I have n't seen it for about two months . |
| 21 | Before we se now hopefully it should bring us to about four o'clock . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | The children face them from about 3 metres away . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | I was very , very sorry , but I just left the letter around and did n't see him for about three years . |
| 26 | Keep putting up , we 've had her for about two years have n't we ? |
| 27 | The last photograph of herself showed her at about twenty-five , here in the garden at Greystones , sorting apples into baskets . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've used it for about three years . |
| 29 | So I do n't think I 've ever I 've had it for about eight months now and I do n't think I 've yet listened to all five in a row without changing it . |
| 30 | The first time I wore this , I 'd had it for about two months and I was talking to Princess Margaret , but as we spoke , I could see she was following my hand with her eyes . |