Example sentences of "[pron] [be] just [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I am just about to . |
2 | But my other commitments prevent me from turning up to their committee meetings now so erm I 'm sort of stepping back on to I 'm just on to their mailing list . |
3 | It 's just ’ — she held the door open for them — ‘ I 'm just off to — whoops ! ’ |
4 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
5 | I was just about to — ’ |
6 | ‘ It 's just down to the fact that they make extremely good records . |
7 | ‘ I think it 's just down to maturity . |
8 | erm so erm I do n't know it 's just down to generating some questions . |
9 | It is not just up to women to negotiate safer sex , any more than it is just up to men . |
10 | I love the way he looks when he 's just about to … ’ |
11 | he 's just down to the beach |
12 | I think everyone would 've come into contact with it and I think it was just up to your own individual self really whether you took it or not . |
13 | He was just about to be attacked by a horde of anxious faces when he felt himself being gently shaken . |
14 | looked around and said well he said looked at me said er well cos he was just about to g throw a wobbly and say , well surely the sales department should be dealing with this , should be should be giving him the information and he he just turned round and gave the aforementioned quote and I just sort of went yes it is . |