Example sentences of "be about the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would that have been about the time you went back to the car to look for your nine iron ? ’ |
| 2 | But it could have been about the time Ephraim disappeared . ’ |
| 3 | I reckon it were about the time of the Great War . |
| 4 | One and a half aeons is about the time that elapsed between the origin of the Earth and the first bacteria-like fossils . |
| 5 | So so March the first is about the time ? |
| 6 | ‘ My complaint is about the time taken for the ambulance to arrive . |
| 7 | Divide three hundred and sixty five which is about the time that the earth the sun by |
| 8 | ‘ It 's about the time I turned into a pig ! ’ he said . |
| 9 | Well that 's what Breeze am keep telling me when I got to work in the morning it 's about the time of recession people should advertise more not less that maybe but the hard financial situation of the theatre finds itself in is to find that sort of money is very difficult at the moment . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's about the time you washed my mouth out with soap . ’ |
| 11 | Though her radicalism had not begun to develop , her individualistic streak was already fully formed , as Miss Suter recalls : ‘ It was about the time we were beginning to have trouble with student sit-ins , and Katharine stuck out against it . |
| 12 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ This was about the time The Beatles were just starting and they were considered to have long hair , but if you look at the pictures of them in those days , they had almost crew-cuts compared to David 's which was honestly long , bright yellow , bleached blonde from a bottle . |
| 13 | In fact , it was about the time that David and I both auditioned for Hair and we were both turned down which I thought was quite funny because it seemed that just about everyone else in London got the part , but we were very much the kind of solo singers and perhaps the wrong type . |
| 14 | information about a particular piece , so , Simon and I sort of , we were talking kind of fairly casually about that , but erm , what we agreed to do is , this was about the time when we first got the equipment I think and it , it occurred to me that you , and I 've checked this now , that you can actually plug a cassette , you know , a Walkman type of player into either the microphone for the |
| 15 | It was about the time you dropped the raw egg into your great-aunt 's letter box . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ When I saw him , but he must 've come on the bus it 'd stop at the turn an' 't was about the time . |
| 17 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 18 | It was about the time of the William & Mary declaration that a group , predominately Quaker , and motivated by one Dr. Edward Wright " Physician at the Sign of the Ship neare the Monument in London " , became interested in mining and smelting . |
| 19 | The council insisted on erecting another — this was about the time I arrived — and it got delivered in handy , fit-together sections . |
| 20 | His first question was about the time she was having , his first statement that the cat — and he — were doing fine . |
| 21 | He was the first big money(950,000) signning by Allan Clark , personally I think Clark just signed him because everybody else was spending absurd amounts money on crap , this was about the time malcolm allison was spending 1 to 2 million quid every other week on unknown bits of shit , so clarke thought lets join in . |