Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] about a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he lost them about a week ago and heard today that a set which might have been his had been used by that psychic woman . |
| 2 | Bit embarrassing , really , she 's supposed to be on probation but her probation officer sort of lost her about a year ago . ’ |
| 3 | He says it took him about a year to recover but now he 's fine here . |
| 4 | A divorced friend of mine said that it took her about a year to reach the breakthrough . |
| 5 | I saw it about a year and a half ago . |
| 6 | It took us about an hour by bus to get into the Central Market but in the last year we were there , the public transport system collapsed and we had to go home in trucks just as if we were cattle . |
| 7 | I think it took us about an hour and a half to get home ! |
| 8 | In March 1990 they gave her about a year to live . |
| 9 | That was the general feeling but he did , he gave us about an hour and a half . |