Example sentences of "could just about [vb infin] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
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 . |