Example sentences of "just about [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of its stars are bluish-white , but there is one red supergiant which stands out ; I can just about detect its colour with × 12 , though admittedly a telescope is needed to show the cluster in its full splendour . |
| 2 | The IMF is likely to refuse to lend any more money until the budget is settled , but the government hopes it will just about manage , helped by lower oil prices . |
| 3 | I think I can just about manage whisky . ’ |
| 4 | Ollie could just about manage on the violin . |
| 5 | ‘ Could just about manage one more , I suppose . |
| 6 | " I think I can just about manage that . " |
| 7 | She could just about manage a day away from London . |
| 8 | She could just about manage Thursday , she thought . |
| 9 | I do n't know , I might just about copy this out . |
| 10 | I remember the over-eager , gaping mouths and outstretched necks , as well as those who could only just about lift their eyelids and had to have the food forced down their throats so that they would have the strength to keep fighting for life . |
| 11 | Preston pushed his bottom lip out as if he had never really considered the matter but that anything in the range between plain and repulsive would just about cover it . |
| 12 | Steel cans , you can just about cover the costs of it . |
| 13 | will just about cover the cost of er the motor bike |
| 14 | Although Lord Rees-Mogg 's confession that he is not a modernist can just about explain his neglect of artists such as Schoenberg , Proust , Kafka , Beckett and Auden , sheer ignorance is the only way in which one can account for the omission of Charles Sherrington , Alan Hodgkin , Lord Adrian and David Hubel , to name but four in neurophysiology ; Rutherford , Bohr , Planck , Heisenberg , Dirac and Gell-Man in physics . |
| 15 | In a good light , I can just about tell white from red . |
| 16 | I can just about split it with × 20 , but not easily . |
| 17 | Besides , Alf can only just about drag hisself to the King 's Arms and back once a day , and then e's finished . |
| 18 | With the help of a couple of good men and with Jean 's know-how , they could just about make it . |
| 19 | He thought he could just about make it up the stairs . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | From where she was standing , she could just about make out the shape of Patrick 's cap as he hurried down the back lane . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | By screwing her eyes up against the glare , she could just about make out what was going on in the refectory . |
| 24 | Might just about make it one way without registering , but certainly not both . |
| 25 | Might just about make it one way without registering , but certainly not both . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Should just about make it . ’ |
| 27 | Could just about make a a soup for tomorrow . |
| 28 | I think we 'll , we 'll just about move on to the next paragraph please , is that you lot Paul . |
| 29 | You , you can just about grow old gracefully |
| 30 | Slachman 's stuck in traffic , but I can just about fit you in . |