Example sentences of "could just about [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Ollie could just about manage on the violin .
2 Could just about manage one more , I suppose .
3 She could just about manage a day away from London .
4 She could just about manage Thursday , she thought .
5 They could just about tolerate his seedy affair with Antonia de Sancha .
6 We could just about race at the moment , ’ said clerk of the course Nick Cheyne .
7 By then she could just about face up to the knowledge she had been trying to resist since February 1944 ; that every last member of her family had died in the concentration camps .
8 But I could just about fit in going .
9 I do n't know if I 'm going to , lets see what else is on , Jagged Edge is on I might watch that instead , oh god its still time , I could , yes I think I could just about give that a wide enough berth
10 At FL080 we could just about remain out of cloud .
11 With the help of a couple of good men and with Jean 's know-how , they could just about make it .
12 He thought he could just about make it up the stairs .
13 Bill expected her to be at York racecourse to ride out at eight — if she put her foot down , she could just about make it .
14 From where she was standing , she could just about make out the shape of Patrick 's cap as he hurried down the back lane .
15 Now that his eyes had adjusted to the light , Patrick could just about make out the vague shape of the young woman before him , her face a dim grey against the paler shape of her nightdress .
16 By screwing her eyes up against the glare , she could just about make out what was going on in the refectory .
17 Could just about make a a soup for tomorrow .
18 By 1970 a professional full-track mono tape recorder could just about achieve a signal-to-noise ratio of 70 decibels , while the full frequency range could just about be squeezed onto a tape cassette running at 1.875 inches per second .
19 Although she could just about reach the top shelf with her fingertips , she was very unsteady .
20 My ankles were like tree trunks and I could just about reach the model because I was so big .
21 This one could , it could just about reach it over its paw and flicked it up and knocked on the door
22 Almost , but Reynolds reckoned he could just about handle it .
23 If Rourke was out , she could just about cope .
24 I could just about cope with Big Ben in my living room , but the miniature Alastair Burnett would worry me a little I think .
25 ’ Only that someone said is n't it luck for Gharr that he could just about pass as an Ardakkean if he dyed his hair … ’
26 I could just about twitch my fingers , but certainly could n't pick anything up .
27 They could just about remember the Store , but it did n't mean much to them .
28 Now you could just about buy one wreck for that sort of money .
29 I said that I thought I could just about get my act together sufficiently to come .
30 When he is perched precariously on a sandbag at the time , however , you could just about get away with charging extra .
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