Example sentences of "she [was/were] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I felt I could do that with you , but it was more difficult with her — partly because she was about the same age as me probably . ’ |
| 2 | She was about the same age as his own daughter but she looked as if she had the troubles of the world on her . |
| 3 | Anxious as she was about the neighbours , she could n't help laughing as she hurried downstairs . |
| 4 | Of all the girls he could have taken up with in the camp , she was about the most unlikely . |
| 5 | She was n't a pretty woman , but to Erlich 's eye she was about the best there could be . |
| 6 | She was about the only girl here who was his own age . |
| 7 | Inside the farmhouse , she showed me some of her furniture and when I saw all the cards around the place and she began to talk about how proud she was about the large number of people who wrote to her , it dawned on me that she must be a bit of a celebrity . |
| 8 | 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 |