Example sentences of "just about [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And above all there 's Juliette Greco singing Si tu t'imagines , which is a Raymond Queneau poem , and Sartre 's Rue des Blancs Manteaux , perhaps the worst pop lyric ever , which she just about manages to save . |
| 2 | Ian Cocking just about manages to persuade the council that the ramp is worth keeping so the ramp is fixed up but a botch job on one piece of coping makes any trick other then just plain rock 'n' rolls virtually impossible . |
| 3 | I tried eating a sandwich with my second cup of tea and I just about managed it . |
| 4 | And he just about managed to make out the three words uttered by Sheriff James Farrell : ‘ You are discharged . ’ |
| 5 | And she just about managed it . |
| 6 | and they just about managed did n't they with the ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He just about owns poor Daniele ever since that business with the drugs , not to mention those photographs he has of Silvio … ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I think I can just about manage whisky . ’ |
| 11 | Ollie could just about manage on the violin . |
| 12 | ‘ Could just about manage one more , I suppose . |
| 13 | " I think I can just about manage that . " |
| 14 | She could just about manage a day away from London . |
| 15 | She could just about manage Thursday , she thought . |
| 16 | I do n't know , I might just about copy this out . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | After pipping Swedish pair Per-Ulrik Johansson and Fredrik Lindgren , by one shot , thanks to birdies at the last two holes , he said : ‘ I was so far away I just about saw the ball disappear . |
| 19 | The desktop casing just about qualifies as a server box . |
| 20 | They just about levelled our Front Line with that bombardment . ’ |
| 21 | Tokyo was not just about Shine On winning a big international race and collecting a top breeding mare , she was sure of it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Steel cans , you can just about cover the costs of it . |
| 24 | will just about cover the cost of er the motor bike |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In a good light , I can just about tell white from red . |
| 27 | They have just about sailed between the twin jagged rocks of Maastricht and recession . |
| 28 | woke up about quarter to seven , I think I was oblivious I just about sailed off again about after putting this back . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Up until then the Philip Mora film of Whitley Streiber 's best-selling tale of alien abduction , Communion , just about cut it with the audience of UFO watchers and real-life abductees invited to a small preview theatre in Soho . |