Example sentences of "[verb] get about " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN it comes to fashion , my fiance has got about as much style as Compo in Last of the Summer Wine . |
| 2 | WHEN it comes to fashion , my fiance has got about as much style as Compo in Last of the Summer Wine . |
| 3 | They were the big surprise at Phillips ' auction of collectors ' items in Oxford , they were only expected to get about fifty pounds . |
| 4 | ‘ And after about six months of work I 'd got about ten finished tracks together , and to be honest , they sounded great ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So we 'd got about forty yards to march to the er the van before we even got that on board . |
| 9 | She 'd got about six little normal dining chairs , and then there there were the carver chairs , she 'd got about six of those . |
| 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 | Our research suggests that after the sale of the music business to Thorn , the trusts would have got about four hundred and fifty million pounds , even after paying off debts and setting aside money for the initial expansion of Virgin Atlantic , that would still leave about two hundred and fifty million . |
| 12 | What , well , we had a very large sitting dining room where we put er our dining room furniture at one end and as , the sitting room furniture at the other , it was very large actually , a Nissan hut does n't look very big , but it is quite big and we had one large bedroom where we got all our furniture in there and then there was er a kitchen , and there was an Elsan lavatory in the garden which er you had to go outside for that , and er , we bought a full length galvanized bath like an ordinary bath upstairs and there was a boiler in the kitchen so we used to light the fire of the boiler , fill the boiler with water from the tap , we had a , oh we had all sorts of er innovations that made life easy as could be in the circumstances , we had er hose pipe from the kitchen sink into the bathroom , we managed to get about three baths a week , cos it , it was a terrible fag , but we did , and then you just emptied the bath out and out in the drain outside you know . |
| 13 | Anyway we did get about ten year old we did go . |
| 14 | ‘ Actually , I 've got about fifteen guitars but I have no interest in collecting them . |
| 15 | ‘ You 've got about five minutes . |
| 16 | All this research is underpinned by a longstanding habit of collecting cuttings on issues that interest him : ‘ I 've got about half-a-dozen files on things like big hitting , underarm bowling , reverse sweeps and so on . |
| 17 | So we 've got about six weeks in which to do this . |
| 18 | Yes , we 've got about twenty drawings . |
| 19 | I 've got about a meg and a half . |
| 20 | Erm no I think I 've got about two weeks off . |
| 21 | We 've got about four minutes to get back to the hotel . ’ |
| 22 | The turn-off to Cajamarca is north of Trujillo , so we 've got about six hundred kilometres of fast drivin' . ’ |
| 23 | We cut up small pieces of carpet into different sizes and we 've got about fifteen different folders |
| 24 | I 've got about five just now . |
| 25 | Yeah I mean I hope all , I will be able t all I will do is say well we 've got about fifty bloody criteria here . |
| 26 | You probably had one like that , I 've got about twenty in the c drawer at home . |
| 27 | So we 're in ninety three ninety four we 've got about a year and a bit before we actually have to start really doing something |
| 28 | ‘ I 've got about twenty per cent hearing in this one , that 's what they said last time . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , you 've got about ten seconds to try , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Time running out here for Forest we 've got about nine minutes to play . |