Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I reckon I 'm about the limit .
2 When I put my front paws on my lady 's shoulders , I was about a foot taller than her .
3 Oh well last I got out I found that I was about a foot too far forward out into the
4 Cos this next story that I would to share with you is about a boy who I must have everybody sitting on their bottoms all alone please .
5 We Think The World of You is about the class wars as they were waged in the 50s before the rules were changed for ever .
6 We are about the business of delivering public services within the democratic process .
7 In the last Simon Star we reported how excited we are about the fact that we 've been able to start the work .
8 I think that the first thing that one would have to say is that we work for the Ministry of Defence , and not the Ministry of War and therefore we are about defence , we 're about the maintenance of peace , erm this you know maintaining of justice etc etc .
9 We knew the German signals for the night , so we tricked them into holding fire until we were about a mile out , then all hell broke loose .
10 They do not even reflect the cognitive side of learning ; they are about the ability to recall and express accurately in a pressurised situation .
11 Unfortunately , the general public is not yet as aware of these technical achievements as they are about the waste they dispose of in their dustbins each week .
12 Inside the computer if you open up the computer you see these little chips , silicon chips they 're about a centimetre perhaps in length and you 'll see a row of , nine or ten of them , that 's physically what the memory is .
13 The dippers are browny-black in colour with striking , snowy white breasts ; they 're about the size of a well-fed blackbird , but far more enjoyable to watch .
14 They 're about the size of a cigarette packet and come with a connector for one of the standard low-cost LAN cable types ( which usually means thin co-an and BNC connections ) .
15 Thirty four P they 're about an inch long .
16 Its little green-booted feet made running motions , though they were about a metre off the kitchens slate-tiled floor .
17 They were about a foot apart , by themselves , and lying in a pool of blood .
18 Mr Hurd has talked about these articles as if they were about the imposition of old East European ‘ socialism ’ ( with Chancellor Kohl leading the way ? ) .
19 They were about continuity , they were about the desire of Painting to go on living .
20 I bought the fish from a local breeder when they were about an inch long .
21 They were about an inch to one and a half inches in thickness and nearly two feet square .
22 QPR vs Cov got about 7 mins ( and most of them were about the resignation and hardly any football ! ! )
23 I reckon it were about the time of the Great War .
24 It 's about a couple of weeks .
25 PLAYER : It 's about a King and Queen …
26 It 's about a firing squad .
27 Er it 's er it 's a ex W D lens , after wartime they sold these things they sold them in catalogues and I sent of for this one , and it 's about a stone and a half in weight .
28 It 's not just about a King , it 's about a way of life .
29 It 's about a mile away .
30 It 's about a witch who chased him on his mare .
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