Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're on about the old King George ! |
| 2 | This would be in about the 1880's . |
| 3 | Erm , first of all , what if the abuser and the abused are around about the same age ? |
| 4 | Er , the recommendation is on about the fourth |
| 5 | on the basis of a hundred per hundred thousand square feet to which you 'd have to add obviously a sort of surrounding area from the square footage used for a distribution warehouse , it looks as though it 's around about the thirteen |
| 6 | No , it 's around about the off in n it ? |
| 7 | And say he 's round about the fortyish age and we spoke to him last week and I said you got a job yet ? |
| 8 | It 's round about it 's round about the same . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Its heyday was round about the 1930s and not all that many pure examples of it are being published today , though there are enough to make it a possible type of book to write if you are strongly inclined this way . |
| 11 | 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 … . |