Example sentences of "[verb] just about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Robert Jones and Dewi Morris will be in action on the final Saturday of the Five Nations but Jones — probably only Ireland 's Simon Geoghegan has lost more ground than him in the course of the season — would need just about the game of his life to regain his lead over Morris as the other scrum-half to Gary Armstrong . |
| 2 | Which makes new Gold for Cooking just about the only way you can cut down on fat without cutting out most of your favourite dishes . |
| 3 | And even if Harvey had written just about the whole of Amaranth 's damn speech , she would , were it to be successful , be more in need of his favours than Harvey 's . |
| 4 | Sometimes when we 'd been out to clubs Bernie would give me a lift home to my parents ' , right out in Greenford where we 'd moved just about the time I started keeping twilight hours . |
| 5 | What I meant was he 'd got just about the finest set of false teeth I 've ever seen . |
| 6 | ‘ And I 've got just about the best security around , ’ he says . |
| 7 | ‘ That sounds just about the right approach to me , ’ he agreed . |
| 8 | If an overweight man in his fifties who is a heavy smoker , has a family history of heart disease and is working in a stressful job were to decide to ‘ get fit ’ and invite a colleague for a game of squash for the first time in twenty years , he would be doing just about the best he could to give himself a heart attack . |
| 9 | ‘ I reckon just about the whole population of Kingsmarkham knew Charlie Hatton would be taking the field path home that night . ’ |
| 10 | ’ Why ’ Frejji was saying , ’ somebody told me they saw just about the nastiest bunch , come in lately . |
| 11 | Unkindly , I laughed and told him that that sounded just about the worst idea I had heard for a very long time . |
| 12 | Now , thinking just about the last few weeks about how many hours a week , on average , have you spent reading books for pleasure ? |
| 13 | Yet for all that , health provides just about the bloodiest battleground in British politics today . |
| 14 | As the new Defence Under-secretary , Robert Cranbourne occupies just about the lowliest position in John Major 's cabinet , Yet he is also somebody the Prime Minister and his colleagues can not afford to ignore . |