Example sentences of "just about [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have just about sailed between the twin jagged rocks of Maastricht and recession . |
| 2 | woke up about quarter to seven , I think I was oblivious I just about sailed off again about after putting this back . |
| 3 | To me , who on a good day just about understood that there was no danger of the water 's getting into the wiring system and fusing everything or worse , and was amazed that the record-player did n't run erratically , the whole set-up was a major miracle . |
| 4 | And I 'd just about begun to believe him . |
| 5 | Now it has finally taken to the field and just about touched first base , announcing that OfficePower is from today , generally available worldwide on Santa Cruz Operation 's SCO Unix implementation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And they 've just about completed a second one on freight which will save two million dollars a year . |
| 8 | She was blonde and doll-faced , but her blue eyes gave the impression that she 'd just about seen everything , and rather more than was healthy for so short a life . |
| 9 | Well , Debbie has just about given in . |
| 10 | ‘ Those damned missionaries just about ruined everything , but they did a good job with the music . |
| 11 | ‘ I have just about lost my voice , ’ he told a largely working-class crowd at McAllen , Texas . |
| 12 | That just about sized up their differences , Ruth thought miserably . |
| 13 | The money 's just about run out . |
| 14 | Computer Associates International Inc has just about run out of available US software products companies to snap up , and now it has crossed the Atlantic , making landfall in Dublin , where it has bought the assets of C++ object-oriented C specialist Glockenspiel Ltd . |
| 15 | I had just about run myself dry of duff funnies regarding the trusty Smith and Whatsaname . |
| 16 | I had just about reached the stairs , when suddenly a white door to my right burst open and a group of students tumbled out , shrieking with laughter . |
| 17 | Then he had deposited the champagne bottle on a small occasional table , next to a sleek ivory-coloured object that Folly had just about recognised as a phone , and she had watched in horrified fascination as he 'd picked up the receiver and started to tap out a number . |
| 18 | Well Digital Equipment Corp always said it would catch up with IBM Corp , come what may , and the company has just about done it : IBM 's loss for 1991 was $2,827m and DEC 's loss for the year $2,780m . |
| 19 | They should be just about done now . " |
| 20 | And for a few years it had just about done so . |
| 21 | Oh did I laugh me just about done with these |
| 22 | It has to fend for itself , out of a budget that has just about risen with inflation in recent years . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've just about gone the limit now . ’ |
| 24 | Dean Acheson had caused a storm in the British media with his suggestion that Britain 's world role was just about played out . |
| 25 | Then your picture 's just about made . ’ |
| 26 | He 'd just about made it by the time Private Boyd had strapped my gun belt on and issued me with a plastic face visor which fitted with adjustable straps at the back . |
| 27 | ‘ I think I 've just about stopped making anything out of anything . |
| 28 | I 've done I 've done an hour this morning and it 's just about jiggered me . |
| 29 | I 'd been welcome in that house for as long as you had-longer , because you were away and I just about lived there . |
| 30 | United have just about shaken off the flu bug and are back to more or less full strength . |