Example sentences of "[pers pn] be just about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jenny and I are just about dropping in our traces . |
| 2 | Adams added : ‘ I am just about stony broke . ’ |
| 3 | And ‘ I 'm just about up to here with the war . |
| 4 | Child : I 'm just about sick of seeing your socks lying around . |
| 5 | I 'm just about set to realise a dream . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm just about coming to the Ks . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm just about at the limit of my transmitting range and anyway I do n't know exactly where we are , although I think it 's on the A7 road to Carlisle . |
| 8 | I 'm just about due to cause havoc at a meeting of the passenger Health and Safety Committee anyway . ’ |
| 9 | Yes , yes you may be right , but I 'm , I 'm just about erm in the dark a bit |
| 10 | well the phrase at the end , I 'm just about get , but , |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | That particular guy was the first person out , then I was just about the second out . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | I was just about . |
| 16 | I was just about |
| 17 | Anyway , I imagine you are just about ready for your course — pencils sharpened & bag packed . |
| 18 | You are just about a match for anyone , are n't you ? ’ |
| 19 | I bet you 're just about ready for some good home cookin' , ’ he mimicked the interviewer 's style , making Paige choke on a laugh . |
| 20 | You 're just about the same height |
| 21 | Yes , we 'll have , at present we 're scheduled to have about 30 aircraft on static display , and these are aircraft from er the third air force bases , the bases within the United Kingdom , you 're just about assured of being able to see an F15 , up close , an F16 up close , an A 10 , and some other aircraft that are stationed in and around er Europe . |
| 22 | At 25 she is just about half his age , but she 's happy to go along with his old-fashioned — some would say chauvinistic — belief that a wife 's place is in the kitchen . |
| 23 | ‘ In fact , making love to you is just about the very last thing on my mind at the moment . ’ |
| 24 | He reappeared at four o'clock , when she was just about dead from boredom . |
| 25 | She had nowhere to aim for and she was just about destitute , and there was trouble following her as well . |
| 26 | She had not missed the fact that the coffee-table was piled high with past copies of Query and his arrogant manner was beginning to annoy her to such an extent that she was just about ready to storm off through the door and let Mr Parnham make of it what he could . |
| 27 | When she was just about within striking distance , she flung the soaking bundle with all her might in his direction , shouted , ‘ Take that ! ’ and then ran , not waiting to see if she had hit the target or not . |
| 28 | At the end of what has not been the easiest of years for trading conditions , I am pleased to say that we are just about on target and set fair for 1993 . |
| 29 | I 've just been looking at the end-May figures and notice we 're just about holding our own on the Gesamt . |
| 30 | ‘ We 're just about making enough from traditional paperweights to keep the Specialist Division afloat . |