Example sentences of "be about [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been about the fourth or fifth time I went round to see him . |
| 2 | ‘ This must be about the sixth glass of water you 've asked for . ’ |
| 3 | planning applications and er er items relating to Poor Lane , er and also the traffic on Station Road later on , er I think it 's rather complicated to talk about all of these at at one go , because I know er different members of the public have come for different reasons and perhaps , for the moment , I 'll not ask for any comments about Mr Smith 's proposals on Poor Lane , er nor er comments about Station Road , er but I will ask you if you want to refer to planning applications , er we have three planning applications , one is to extend the car park behind the pub , one is for a change of plan to one of the houses on the development adjacent to us , er and the third one is er er the plans submitted by Grant Development at Thorney , erm , I suspect most comments will be about the last , er perhaps I should ask first if anybody wants to make any comments about proposals behind the reindeer in , or at Chapel cottage site , does anybody , er in the public want to mention those erm , well we will go on to the one at Thorney then , and you 're Mr Walker ? |
| 4 | And that was Stronsay there were about the first to have a diamond jubilee . |
| 5 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
| 6 | But then it was a creature of its time , and its time and the work it did were about the last election , not the next one . |
| 7 | This is about the fifth meal you 've made ! |
| 8 | This is about the fourth time we 've played |
| 9 | No , I tell ya , there 's about four in the company started doing it altogether , oh this is about the fourth one I think why that 's what third |
| 10 | It 's not fair to the others — and asking for clothes for his wife is about the last straw ! ’ |
| 11 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's about the second problem that the Professor raised . |
| 13 | Yeah we bought a new bedroom suite I think that 's about the first thing |
| 14 | ‘ It 's about the first night . ’ |
| 15 | I was gon na say it 's about the last one ! |
| 16 | It seems quite a while ago now , but it 's about the last thing I remember . |
| 17 | And at a time when the Ingard lot are pressed for money , he 's about the last person you 'd have thought they 'd go to any trouble over . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's about the last of them , sir , ’ he said . |
| 19 | It 's about the third or fourth ti me that they have seen it — the same is probably true for most of the videos on the camp . |
| 20 | I guess so , it seems so , Graham , oh , he 's making people redundant , he 's gone off , it 's about the third time in three weeks take a day playing golf . |
| 21 | No , Hayden says if we go to Comet cos he said , cos I said I bought my video at Comet and they were offering twenty five per cent off , twenty five per cent off off the at Comet so that 's about the third of the place . |
| 22 | Or s Pit was about the first one I seen w that had the that had baths pit head baths in this corner . |
| 23 | Exams and erm she was about the first I think and there was erm somebody else who wanted to take a course in erm Youth Leadership but erm , very quickly the numbers increased till the time I left of course we , we were dealing with thousands |
| 24 | ‘ I reported the killing as soon as I left them , leaving a man there and asking them to touch nothing ; that was about the ninth hour . |
| 25 | The project was about the Second World War . |
| 26 | I saw my new home in October 1981 ; it was about the seventh or eighth place I had been to look at . |
| 27 | I think Row was about the last row in and of course you 'd got all the fields , Gardens and what have you . |
| 28 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 29 | I was about the last one with a tanker er before er strike I mean they 've been there afterwards but er and er a certain tank was empty . |
| 30 | Just one or two people who were who were here from the start so they remembered you know th thi this was this was more or less where the builders finished off , this was about the last house they did |