Example sentences of "i be just about " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'm just about to put them back up . |
| 32 | 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 ? |
| 33 | Yes , I 'm just about to give you an assignment sheet , those ten people . |
| 34 | ‘ Your Mum and I were just about to phone the police . ’ |
| 35 | His biggest problem was that because of the way things work in academic life , regardless of whether or not I changed my lectures from one year to the next , I was just about unsackable . |
| 36 | That particular guy was the first person out , then I was just about the second out . |
| 37 | After a photographic session near the Palace Gates I was just about at the end of my tether and was thankful to catch a taxi back to Liverpool Street Station and home . |
| 38 | I was just about ready to turn in my leather jacket for a Limnititzker housewife 's headscarf , anything for a passport into that secret world of hers … |
| 39 | I was just about . |
| 40 | I was just about |
| 41 | ‘ Only a rose — ’ I began as I held out my offering to my husband and I was just about to start on the second line when a Yorkshire pudding with onion gravy flew past my head and stuck with a plop on the ceiling . |
| 42 | When the call came I was just about to bite into his huge triple layer sandwich . |
| 43 | ‘ I was just about to come round and see you . |
| 44 | In fact I was just about to do this when Mr Gillis decided he was ready . |
| 45 | I was just about to pack up when Keith came along . ’ |
| 46 | ‘ I was just about to tell him not to wait . |
| 47 | I was just about to hop it down the stairs — but my feet turned back . |
| 48 | I was just about to offer him my pen when he produced one from his carrier bag : a grotty looking biro with a chewed end . |
| 49 | ‘ I was just about to go over to the station when that arrived . ’ |
| 50 | This pendulum visualisation helped me considerably at the point where I was just about to master the hovering stage . |
| 51 | I was just about to say ‘ yes ’ when they grabbed me and I saw they all had guns . |
| 52 | I was just about to speak when suddenly , abruptly , the figure disappeared . |
| 53 | ‘ Because I was just about to wish you a happy birthday . ’ |
| 54 | I was just about to nod off when the editor , wrapping up proceedings with the customary ‘ Anymore for anymore ? ’ query , was interrupted by a large-bellied , red-faced , bearded bloke . |
| 55 | This Pentax weather-resistant camera arrived to be tested at a very opportune moment — I was just about to head off for a surfing weekend in North Cornwall . |
| 56 | I was just about to go round and ask Night Home Sister if there was a chance of your being called early . ’ |
| 57 | " I was just about to send for you , " Katherine said , her voice harsh and uncompromising . |
| 58 | I was just about to mention the football |
| 59 | That 's what I th or well what I was just about to suggest . |
| 60 | ‘ I was just about to look , ’ Dexter said , his voice low and guttural . |