Example sentences of "'d [vb pp] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a couple of months I 'd splurged about £2,500 on all sorts of high-fashion clothes . |
| 2 | She 'd missed about twenty keeps coming along , |
| 3 | With annoying irrelevance it occurred to Quentin that the name of the film on the television screen was Three Smart Girls , which he 'd seen about thirty-five years ago , when he was a child himself . |
| 4 | I 'd done about four sitcoms one after the other , and I was n't getting much time to do theatre which I really wanted to do . |
| 5 | ‘ And after about six months of work I 'd got about ten finished tracks together , and to be honest , they sounded great ! |
| 6 | But er we did n't I did n't go back , we 'd already we 'd we 'd got some land and er and we 'd set up er pig breeding and er we 'd got about a hundred and twenty strong store pigs at that time . |
| 7 | If you see we 'd got about er twenty eight thirty in this class , and er they bought the text books and we joined a national college of labour colleges . |
| 8 | And er I got , they 'd got about twelve hundred members , and I think I got about a thousand , of course there were n't two of the men that knew and they voted . |
| 9 | So we 'd got about forty yards to march to the er the van before we even got that on board . |
| 10 | She 'd got about six little normal dining chairs , and then there there were the carver chairs , she 'd got about six of those . |
| 11 | She 'd got about six little normal dining chairs , and then there there were the carver chairs , she 'd got about six of those . |
| 12 | I remember one evening we went up to bed , and my head was just spinning because we 'd had about ten ten people had come in , some of them overlapping and some had you know but I 'd say at one stage we had about seven people in the flat together . |
| 13 | Maxim knew he 'd had about 650 in the wallet . |
| 14 | Er , no , no , we were , I mean last night we 'd gone up from the week before on a rave , we 'd had about si ninety in , and last night we had about two hundred and fifty . |
| 15 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 16 | He had retired he 'd retired about ten years . |
| 17 | He went on : ‘ I 'd gone about 20′ Then the piton just came out . |
| 18 | and by time she 'd drunk about six glasses |
| 19 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |