Example sentences of "just about get " in BNC.
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| 1 | He just about gets away with it as a teenager in long shot and make-up , but mostly he is heard ( putting on a ‘ young ’ voice ) and not seen . |
| 2 | In a bumper month Stephen King 's Gerald 's Game ( NEL , £5.99 ) just about gets the nod , but he 's hard pressed by Terry Pratchett 's latest Discworld paperback , Small Gods ( Corgi , £4.99 ) . |
| 3 | Is growing up just about getting to grips with your manhood ? |
| 4 | In fact at the moment we 're just about getting to the longest er night the what 's called the equ er sorry the solstice that occurs on about December the twenty second . |
| 5 | Nine yeah , came up caught that just about getting in there |
| 6 | ‘ Even if I do play girls in their twenties , and just about get away with it . ’ |
| 7 | Just about get a , about three or four one . |
| 8 | You just about got these worked out . |
| 9 | just about got ourselves reasonably tidy , you know , after Christmas and everything and set , managing to save and spend as well |
| 10 | I 've gone round the car twice , I thought , that ai n't stopped but I did , you do n't realise it 's stopped cos I did n't hear the bib bib bib bib bib there 's so much foam anyway you do n't realise there 's none coming out the like fine dribbles coming out of fucking put the back , put the jets bit on he rinsed it all down just about got it rinsed and then it gives you like erm a blob like a wax blob , so I put that on there I thought |
| 11 | just about got enough there , now |
| 12 | I should think you probably just about got through the toast possibly . |
| 13 | I said that I thought I could just about get my act together sufficiently to come . |
| 14 | He detests travelling alone , he is impossible to clip unless doped , he loathes vets and injections ( ‘ We can just about get a needle into a vein now he 's sixteen … ’ and he has to be sedated for his teeth to be rasped . |
| 15 | If one crewman is slain the other two can just about get by without reducing the rate of fire . |
| 16 | If one crewman is slain the other two can just about get by without reducing the rate of fire . |
| 17 | If one crewman is slain then the rest can just about get by without reducing the rate of fire . |
| 18 | I can just about get down here of a morning and then I 'm stuck until someone gives me a' and up , which they do n't want to be doing too often , do they dear ? " |
| 19 | When he is perched precariously on a sandbag at the time , however , you could just about get away with charging extra . |
| 20 | Well next door but one are having erm double glazed back window , you know that main lounge window and the the guy 's parked halfway across the drive with the van , left it there all in disarray you can just about get your car up and round and brains that some of these people |
| 21 | I can just about get in behind without blowing myself up I think . |
| 22 | I could just about get mine on it . |
| 23 | We have just about got the thumbprints on the Video and Activity Book contracts and it is fairly reasonable to suppose that the rest will now follow . |
| 24 | I would have thought the Russians just about got ahead on a points average with that one . ’ |
| 25 | And i thought , right , I think I 've just about got time to nip home and fetch that fire wood and pick them up when they you see ? |
| 26 | Thinking of his earlier remark , Cassie said bluntly : ‘ Well , I 've only just about got one foot in the middle class bracket , myself , so perhaps you 'd be slumming if you made love to me , which is so obviously what you have in mind . ’ |
| 27 | If you can imagine a benevolent and myopic stork in goggles and woolly hat , then you 've just about got the picture . |
| 28 | People have just about got used to the new structure and it seems to me that it would behove us all to leave well alone . |
| 29 | What I 'm arguing for tonight is that given that we 've relatively recent boundary change , the people have just about got used to it , so by and large er it does n't seem to have huge numbers of demerits as far as the city is concerned and that we are now very , very close , as close as is possible to the norm for the average constituency size that we actually endorse the boundary commissions proposals and leave well alone and the second part of the motion merely says to a neighbouring authority , y'know , please in some senses be punctilious about not to suddenly decide to poke your noses into something way beyond your it 's not just a couple of parishes on the south boundary , a couple of parishes from from the north of their but actually way to our area but what candidly I can only see as a rather partisan er er |
| 30 | ‘ We 've just about got time for a quick swim before breakfast . ’ |