Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started to read newspapers and magazines more , and , for just about the first time in my life , I began to take an interest in current affairs . |
| 2 | Ian Rush fed the ball to Steve McManaman , who for just about the first time was decisive with his delivery , hitting the ball low across the face of the goal , and there was Walters at the far post to tap it in . |
| 3 | He 'd looked round and it had seemed like just about the first place he 'd seen , and some part of him deep down had said : It 's got to be somewhere , why not here ? |
| 4 | In addition the set includes the Fairy 's Kiss Divertimento , a substantial Petrushka Suite with just about the only really convincing performance I have ever heard of Stravinsky 's concert ending , and Prokofiev 's Scythian Suite and Le Pas d'Acier . |
| 5 | Is it a good idea for DEC to boast that its VAX 6310s were the ‘ workhorses ’ of the British Broadcasting Corporation 's electoral analysis machine when the BBC 's predictions of the UK election result last week — along with just about the entire market research industry — turned out to be so wide of the mark ? |
| 6 | Subsequent studies showed that the TVA chemists had hit upon just about the most sensitive explosive you can make from ammonium nitrate and wax . |
| 7 | Yet in just about the most sensitive election , the one to choose a President of the United States , there was interference from Britain . |
| 8 | One February Sunday , on just about the coldest night I 've ever known , four of us queued up outside a cinema in Golders Green for over an hour to see Crocodile Dundee . |
| 9 | Provided the approach path was correct beforehand , the adverse yaw as the aileron is applied swings the nose off to just about the right point to keep the glider on the correct path . |
| 10 | And though both were gone by the close — Stewart to just about the only ball to misbehave badly all match — the balance of power remained unaltered , a fact emphasised by Lamb and nightwatchman Russell on the second morning . |
| 11 | Some burning sun , black clouds , rain and wind were the backdrop to another highly agreeable fortnight in Paris at just about the perfect time of year . |
| 12 | At just about the same time , a cigar-gnawing chief executive thousands of miles away was shredding his meticulously planned TV schedules to find a slot for a homely Australian series which was to become one of the all time surprise hits , turning many of its stars into instant celebrities . |
| 13 | Another group , the crustaceans , appeared at just about the same time . |
| 14 | " Psycho-anthropology " , a stepchild of anthropology and psychology , emerged as a sub-discipline at just about the same time that its purest source data — the least-contacted tribal peoples — were vanishing into extinction . |
| 15 | Theseus is shown again at just about the same time , lifting Antiope into his chariot , an over life-size group from a pediment ( fig. 65 ) . |
| 16 | And conditions were still at just about the same , but it had been an old hotel , so all the rooms at the top were left just as the bedrooms would have been , so you went up and down steps , and along corridors . |
| 17 | Told me that at just about the same age , he did the same thing to try and impress the then girl in in the office . |
| 18 | If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce . |
| 19 | His departure for Australia came at just about the right time . |