Example sentences of "about [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're about right I think are n't we ? |
| 2 | Which is about right I suppose , yeah . |
| 3 | Nothing came of the latter , but about 1838 he demonstrated a fairly successful hot-air engine in London , suitable for a road vehicle . |
| 4 | The cabbage was about the same er , about fifty I think . |
| 5 | During the first decade of the eighteenth century she made further journeys through some of the southern counties and about 1712 she visited Epsom , Hampton Court , and Windsor . |
| 6 | Probably be at Ruth 's by about eight I suppose |
| 7 | Cos by then , they wo n't get to , they wo n't go to the crossing until about eight I suppose in the evening , it 'll be a night crossing wo n't it ? |
| 8 | Development work continued and in about 1980 they began to launch a series of compact lamps , with tube diameters as little as 16 mm , in novel and innovative shapes and sizes . |
| 9 | Up till about 1980 I had little experience of float fishing for big bream , and I do n't recall ever having read anything on the subject . |
| 10 | About 1861 it was decided to map the superficial deposits in addition to the solid rocks and to show them on published maps . |
| 11 | And I had a test , and the old Colonel and Colchester came to see now and how you 're getting on , he was , just about retiring he wanted a different desk in his office . |
| 12 | About eleven I noticed that Nigel had dozed off with a smile still on his face . |
| 13 | Michael : It 's about sportsman and when he was seven he was a good football player and then when I was about ten or eleven I went swimming and then when I was about eleven I dived in without any — urn — with no water in the pool so I got eye-sighted and then , when I was about fourteen it was I played snooker and I had to do the strokes really good because I was eye-sighted . |
| 14 | About 9.30 I sit down with a cup of coffee to read the paper . |
| 15 | About 1881 he tried a change of policy by having some mapping done on the one-inch scale in order to speed up the surveying . |
| 16 | In about 1479 he offered to sell a de Vere property in London to the royal servant John Risley . |
| 17 | In about 1479 he offered to sell a de Vere property in London to the royal servant John Risley . |
| 18 | Once , in about 1985 I think , for being drunk and disorderly . |
| 19 | About 1630 he moved to Stourbridge , living at Stourbridge High Street at the ‘ brickhouse ’ , the later Talbot Hotel . |
| 20 | When he was about 12 he managed to acquire a pair of roller-skates . |
| 21 | Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last . |
| 22 | well as far as that stoat did n't offer them any thing because they , a chap about forty he reached it |
| 23 | Now you will see from your point of view the moon will be will be about half it will be it will be more more than that I would think . |
| 24 | For a brief period after his accession Henry VII allowed the old Exchequer system to revive ; but from about 1493 he reverted to the methods of his immediate predecessors . |
| 25 | About half-ten I think . |
| 26 | About 1560 he became a Protestant , as Janequin and Certon never did , and made a four-part setting of the complete Marot-de Beze Psalter in lightly ornamented note-against-note counterpoint with the melodies generally in the highest part ( Paris , 1564 ) . |
| 27 | Then at about 4:58 I thought maybe I 'll just listen to the match report , there may have been a fight back … & what ya know … 3–3 ! ! |
| 28 | In about 1784 he set up a press there , and founded an ambitious system of circulating libraries ; to anyone wishing to set one up he offered a stock of books , a catalogue , and instructions . |
| 29 | At about 4.55 they came quietly and nervously from each community — right up to where the inspector and I stood . |
| 30 | By daylight it was clear they had missed their rendezvous , and at about 0800 they set course for Malta , taking a back-bearing from Mount Etna . |