Example sentences of "could just about " in BNC.

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1 Although she could just about reach the top shelf with her fingertips , she was very unsteady .
2 I said that I thought I could just about get my act together sufficiently to come .
3 With the help of a couple of good men and with Jean 's know-how , they could just about make it .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 At FL080 we could just about remain out of cloud .
8 He thought he could just about make it up the stairs .
9 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 .
10 By covering her hands and lower arms in the most enormous pair of rubber gloves she could just about force herself to help with the washing up .
11 Clerk of the Course Hugo Bevan said : ‘ We could just about have raced today .
12 We could just about race at the moment , ’ said clerk of the course Nick Cheyne .
13 It seemed that we could just about raise the amount of the offer we had decided upon and still avoid bankruptcy .
14 My ankles were like tree trunks and I could just about reach the model because I was so big .
15 They could just about tolerate his seedy affair with Antonia de Sancha .
16 I could just about twitch my fingers , but certainly could n't pick anything up .
17 There were four Special Agents in the London office , and they had plenty to do , so much so that the fidgeting intruder could just about be ignored .
18 Ollie could just about manage on the violin .
19 From where she was standing , she could just about make out the shape of Patrick 's cap as he hurried down the back lane .
20 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 .
21 Could just about manage one more , I suppose .
22 She could just about hear the pilot yelling for silence .
23 Almost , but Reynolds reckoned he could just about handle it .
24 By screwing her eyes up against the glare , she could just about make out what was going on in the refectory .
25 Now you could just about buy one wreck for that sort of money .
26 ’ 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 … ’
27 Interest-group activity could just about be tolerated as long as it was moderate and operated within the suffocating rules of the political game .
28 If Rourke was out , she could just about cope .
29 All the denunciations of a property tax could just about be accommodated , but how were the Government to overcome the whole rationale of the ill-fated poll tax experiment , the supposed unacceptability of the rates ?
30 They could just about remember the Store , but it did n't mean much to them .
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