Example sentences of "about [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have meandered round all sorts of fairly obscure topics , just about pleasing the Chair by remaining in order , knowing that whatever I said it would not make the slightest difference to the outcome of the private Bill . |
| 2 | And Jill , the housekeeper I 'd employed just before leaving England , was just about holding the fort . |
| 3 | As Jonathan Martin , the BBC head of sport , put it : ‘ It 's not just about having the biggest cheque on the table . |
| 4 | While expressing relief that what is emerging could be worse , it is not the promised land ; it is just about approaching the standard of some of the good practice which preceded it . |
| 5 | The Gestapo was just about running the Communist party by 1944 , but to do that they 'd have to let some small fry run free , and from their point of view the Eismarks would be very small indeed . |
| 6 | Oh but I du n no erm cos there 's always this thing about following the mass ideal what peasants want . |