Example sentences of "go [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Same goes for about half the words I 've been learning from that little minx . |
| 2 | er Irene was er , erm bath on a Tuesday and Ron usually goes , Ron does n't stay in very long , Irene just goes for about half an hour so she said Ron is n't coming to the bath today , he 's got a bad throat , and I never thought to say , how is his throat this |
| 3 | Unfortunately one day when it was earlier on he , he got his commands mixed up and we was m marching down the yard and the drive , and we was marching towards the factory up and down and right wheel and about turn , left wheel , basic foot drill you know it had been going for about ten minutes and all and we was going down towards the factory and erm we kept on going , we was getting close to the factory and he , he he forgot his words forgot what er command he wanted to give and he shouted stop you 'll be in the bloody factory in a minute instead of sa shouting halt , you know , he , he got flummoxed . |
| 4 | Sophie said , ‘ We 've got enough money to keep ourselves going for about six months . |
| 5 | in time and it 's been going for about five years . |
| 6 | They , they reckon they 're going for about ninety five to a hundred and five down there . |
| 7 | And that is I think going for about ninety eight . |
| 8 | they were going for about a hundred thousand . |
| 9 | I think something like that one could be going for about eighty five thousand . |
| 10 | You know , we were going for about ten minute . |
| 11 | It 's been going for about two now |
| 12 | tell I were n't going to about half past six , seven . |
| 13 | But most of the population forecasts from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys suggests probably going to about fifty eight million by the early twenty-first century or the turn of the century , but the structure will be different . |
| 14 | There was a thing called a B licence which allowed you to go within about twenty five miles with somebody else 's goods . |
| 15 | only goes to about five inches |
| 16 | Cos had it done , he never washes his , like erm went for about four months without washing his hair and it , it really did reek . |
| 17 | and er we just went for about ten minutes , but she 's alright in herself |
| 18 | They 'll only be there for about twenty four hours , they 'll go for about a week but they 're spending most of it with er , Deborah down at erm , Bambury |
| 19 | But erm sort of thought of something in between , but he said he said those will probably go for about five hundred and fifty |
| 20 | Told that it was a fox 's cairn , he insisted on climbing up by himself to have a look at it , and was gone for about twenty minutes . |
| 21 | He was gone for about half an hour and I do n't think any of us even suspected that there was something amiss . |
| 22 | I was gone for about three hours : scrambling through hedges ; rummaging in undergrowth ; wrestling with tangled nets ; and throwing into a box the indignant ferrets , who after all had done all the work and only wanted to wring the rabbits ' necks . |
| 23 | Miss Asher 's cakes — designs include a bottle of champagne , a Lotus racing car and a Nintendo Game Boy — first went into about 20 stores in the south of England in September . |
| 24 | In the same five-year period , BR 's passenger traffic went from about 18bn passenger-miles to 20.7bn ( peaking at 21.3bn in 1988/89 ) ; freight traffic went from about 7.8bn tonne-miles to 10.4bn . |
| 25 | and probably if you go from about twenty five or somewhere round there , you 'll get the context of it |
| 26 | Actually I feel too embarrassed to say much about this quiz since both my wife failed to recognise Aberystwyth station — a place we go to about once a week ! |
| 27 | Well they do n't normally go till about nine anyway well they ca n't cos the post office do n't open till do you want a coffee ? |
| 28 | I did n't go till about half ten ah no cos I had a few letters and stuff to write first and I thought right I 'll just take me time and , cos I wanted to I did n't wan na go faster than you know than I should , I should have done sort of thing cos I wanted to time it properly . |
| 29 | ‘ There 's a boat-train that goes at about half-nine , I think . ’ |
| 30 | She 's went to about ten granny and granddad 's funerals ! |