Example sentences of "about [vb -s] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the four songs on offer , ‘ Cold Inferno ’ just about has the edge with Rob 's intimidating vocal snarling the ‘ Question all that you 've been told ’ refrain . |
| 2 | Of the four songs on offer , ‘ Cold Inferno ’ just about has the edge with Rob 's intimidating vocal snarling the ‘ Question all that you 've been told ’ refrain . |
| 3 | In a bumper month Stephen King 's Gerald 's Game ( NEL , £5.99 ) just about gets the nod , but he 's hard pressed by Terry Pratchett 's latest Discworld paperback , Small Gods ( Corgi , £4.99 ) . |
| 4 | He just about takes the biscuit . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , that just about takes the — ’ |
| 6 | If modernization entails the differentiation of an autonomous aesthetic field , then the appreciation of the ( modern ) art that this brings about entails the inculcation of a ‘ differentiated ’ habitus . |