Example sentences of "just about [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blurred , poky , and inadequate black and white illustrations will just about serve the devoted collector but will not make new converts . |
| 2 | Although she could just about reach the top shelf with her fingertips , she was very unsteady . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As Jonathan Martin , the BBC head of sport , put it : ‘ It 's not just about having the biggest cheque on the table . |
| 5 | One can just about imagine the monstrous labours of the eventual demolition ( centuries away , long after my time ) , and the eventual creation of the pleasant land — the green , the promised . |
| 6 | The roofing felt was eventually fixed with a gallon of disgusting adhesive and half a pound of nails , which just about completed the major work , everything else could be classified as ‘ off jobs ’ to finish off . |
| 7 | Not for nothing did smiling Irish eyes make the fortunes of the bohemian hacks who were just about to create the modern popular music business in the cities of the United States . |
| 8 | Winkelmann was just about to publish the first book to use the word art history in its title , This book on the history of Classical Art is seen as a milestone in the history of art history . |
| 9 | Just about to post the same info — from both teletext services . |
| 10 | ‘ I was just about to ask the same of you , ’ he countered promptly . |
| 11 | My boyfriend has just asked me to marry him and we are just about to break the good news to our families . |
| 12 | I , I 've bought you back the whip and I 'm just about to start the other one , so hang on to it at the moment , cos I do n't like too many books around that I 've borrowed , I 've got two . |
| 13 | As it so happened another young scholar , one who 's life was to become inextricably bound up with the politics of Trinidad , was also just about to make the same journey . |
| 14 | She was just about to rattle the huge gates in fury when there was a clunk and the gates whirred open . |
| 15 | This pendulum visualisation helped me considerably at the point where I was just about to master the hovering stage . |