Example sentences of "[vb past] about the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Moschion , who lived about the third century BC but wrote in the spirit of a century or two earlier , it was due to Time — ‘ the begetter and nurturer of all things ’ — that ‘ The earth , once barren , began to be ploughed by yoked oxen , towered cities arose , men built sheltering homes and turned their lives from savage ways to civilized . ’ |
| 2 | Once , desperate for a full night 's sleep , he had accepted her offer of a Valium , sluicing it down with his usual nightcap , and moved about the next morning like a diver walking on the seabed . |
| 3 | The Sunday Express speculated about the next primate and thought that Ramsey probably ruled himself out by his partisan behaviour in attending the eucharistic congress . |
| 4 | She heard about the second attack only on her return . |
| 5 | Perhaps it started about the mid-fifth century . |
| 6 | Blood loss started about the eighth day of infection when the immature adult has developed the toothed buccal capsule which enables it to grasp plugs of mucosa containing arterioles . |
| 7 | Of the film 's religious imagery , he says : ‘ We talked about the Fifty-First psalm ( which is sung by one of the kitchen boys ) ; it does n't give you many clues , but I was reading it again this morning and it started making more sense . |
| 8 | That night in the library of his house , Leithen talked about the seventeenth century . |
| 9 | The make-up girl went to work on me as Duncan and I reminisced about the last time we 'd worked together . |
| 10 | Erm you spoke about the second appointment and say you were coming back you did n't actually arrange it but you spoke about it |