Example sentences of "about [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 United have just about shaken off the flu bug and are back to more or less full strength .
2 They have just about sailed between the twin jagged rocks of Maastricht and recession .
3 I 'm expecting like a lights or something are flashing so I got the off the jet wash and I 'd just about got to the where I started again it 's gone bib bib bib bib bib is that it ?
4 MIDDLESBROUGH Bears and Newcastle Diamonds were outclassed in their heats of the Heat Team Championship and are just about eliminated from the competition .
5 In reading it the cruelty is just about balanced by the extreme beauty of the lyrics and much of the dialogue , so that the total effect , tho ’ sinister , like a too bright dream which is sure to turn into nightmare before the end , yet is bearable .
6 But the paying customers are just about outnumbered at the moment by a very big posse of travelling Italian journalists just to my left and all pretty excitable by our normal quiet English standards .
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