Example sentences of "[be] [verb] just about " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is going to take us a bit of time to put into place , but we 're , you know we 're moving just about as fast as our legs can carry us . |
| 2 | GEORGE BUSH and Saddam Hussein may not scare each other , but they are terrifying just about everybody else . |
| 3 | Anyway , all the other young men were away at the war , Gustav must have been spending just about all his time indoors , young love wove its spell and … ‘ ow 's yer father ? ’ |
| 4 | Against them are ranged just about everyone else with a flavour of Unix — including IBM , which has AIX — in a group called the Open Software Foundation . |
| 5 | The other kinds of socially deictic information , however , can be encoded just about anywhere in the linguistic system . |
| 6 | This is particularly necessary if you are using either the VHS-C or Video 8 formats ; unlike the ubiquitous standard VHS cassettes which can be bought just about anywhere , the availability of the mini-format cassettes tends to be patchy and you risk running out of tape at an awkward time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The engine has been on an electronic diagnosis machine ( like a Sun tester ) and everything was shown to be set just about right . |
| 9 | The Mad Axe 's very impressive acoustic sustain helps a lot on clean settings , and for rich , Knopfler-type sounds the pickups are voiced just about right . |
| 10 | JOHN Smith is doing just about everyone a favour . |
| 11 | They seem proud that it 's offended just about everyone ; it enjoys the billing ‘ Tasteless — the Sun ’ in the association 's latest mailing . |
| 12 | At this speed — even with two up — it is burning just about two gallons of four star MOGAS per hour ; even cheaper than a J3 Cub . |
| 13 | 30th March 1808 ‘ saw a woman on Blackfriar 's Bridge who had just been killed by a horse which had run away — the horse was stopped just about half way between that market and the bridge , drank tea and supped with Mr. Hills — Mr. Pyne was there — met Mr. Reinagle ’ . |
| 14 | Whilst I was mooning about singing ‘ I 'm in love with a wonderful guy ’ , he was entertaining just about half the gay population of the town . |