Example sentences of "be just about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am just about to . |
| 2 | Q I am just about to leave school and would be interested to know about any available equestrian courses I can take . |
| 3 | It feels as though I am just about to end , just about to end . |
| 4 | I am just about to tell you Q A P U quan quango , it 's a Q U A N G O semi public body with financial support from and senior appointments made by government . |
| 5 | " 10 is for the shit I blew over you and 10 is for the shit I am just about to blow over you , Good-day sir . " |
| 6 | Mr Deputy Speaker , no I did not know the exact amount of the recommendation but I of course assumed there was likely to be some pay increase and I have made an increase in grant which I am just about to explain to the house which will go some way to meet the requirements of local authorities and there are other assets and resources they have er which I will illustrate later on in my speech . |
| 7 | If you are just about to move house it might be preferable to have your pet cremated and bury the ashes in your new garden . |
| 8 | My boyfriend has just asked me to marry him and we are just about to break the good news to our families . |
| 9 | The orchestra is now playing songs from Chu Chin Chow and the audience is joining in.The years of practise , of developing my special technique , are just about to pay off . |
| 10 | It may be that they have just had their operation or they are just about to have it . ’ |
| 11 | I believe it 's actually a better publication than the Munros book , and if like me , you 've just finished the Munros , or are just about to ‘ compleat ’ , then this new book will have your mouth watering for the new challenge ahead . |
| 12 | He is younger than Howard expected , with crisp curly hair , full smooth cheeks which are just about to smile , at his own jokes , but never quite do , and thick horn-rimmed spectacles through which his magnified eyes watch carefully to estimate audience reaction . |
| 13 | And the daffs are just about to burst out . |
| 14 | It occurs to me we 're just about to circulate the picture of that man , Stein , suspected of wholesale fraud — so maybe we get them mixed up , Kurt . ’ |
| 15 | We 're at Los Angeles airport and we 're just about to leave but Barry 's a little unsure about the song . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We 're just about to have a new camera and darkroom ’ , he said , ‘ and then we shall only be about ten years behind the times . ’ |
| 17 | They 're just about to bring one out are n't they ? |
| 18 | But we 're just about to cross the shipping channel . |
| 19 | We 're we 're just about to mail may be it 's gone out now , six thousand universities and colleges throughout the U K. And state schools are as interested that product as independents . |
| 20 | With a broad smile , David says : ‘ We have also been looking at Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy and we 're just about to start on Marilyn Monroe ! ’ |
| 21 | We 're just about to leave Sian by air for Nanking , and we 've just heard that a bevy of Brit . |
| 22 | Is it possible , this is quite a bit of work we 're just about to enter into , which we may have to repeat . |
| 23 | She sits there she goes and she stops and you 're just about to go to sleep and she goes so loud ! |
| 24 | If you want a mixture of species and colours , grow individual bulbs separately in plant pots and then plant up an arrangement using bulbs which have reached the same stage of development and look to be just about to flower . |
| 25 | I 'm just about to go to bed and I thought I 'd ring and see how things are with you . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm just about to go to Panch Chule which is a mountain in the Indian Himalaya . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd invite you in for a chat , ’ said Joe , ‘ but I 'm just about to go out . |
| 28 | ‘ Not this evening , ’ said Joe , ‘ I 'm just about to have my meal . ’ |
| 29 | Well we ca n't hear it at the moment I 'm just about to run it again for you . |
| 30 | Right I 'm just about to start bar fourteen . |