Example sentences of "[vb past] just about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried just about every diesel and the Peugeots performed better than other manufacturers ' diesels I tried . ’ |
| 2 | He secretly helped just about everyone in the town . ’ |
| 3 | I mentioned just about , and I got this this erm letter from her . |
| 4 | I expected just about this . |
| 5 | This was evidently regarded as a heavy burden by the English government , although it was the merest tumulus compared with the great Everest of debts owed by the Emperor Charles V. The English Crown had escaped large-scale indebtedness by selling Crown lands , which produced 32 per cent of the total revenue raised for war , and by debasing the coinage , which produced just about as much . |
| 6 | Loosing to Coventry and then Charlton in the space of a couple of weeks made just about everyone I knew suicidal — and all cause of Brendan Ormsby failing to kick the ball out into touch on his own dead ball line . |
| 7 | My downhill skiing was a little rusty to say the least , but a few too many moons ago I 'd just about cracked parallel turns , and I felt in need of a brush up . |
| 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 | And I 'd just about begun to believe him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 'd just about got a speech arranged when you announced that the afternoon had been no big deal ! ’ |
| 12 | I 'm expecting like a lights or something are flashing so I got the off the jet wash and I 'd just about got to the where I started again it 's gone bib bib bib bib bib is that it ? |
| 13 | ‘ I 've had a broken nose , black eyes , split lips and banged just about every part of my body , ’ he says . |
| 14 | And Alan Yentob 's channel provided relief from the computer predictions with a Comic Strip ( BBC2 ) confection starring Adrian Edmondson as John Major and Robbie Coltrane as Mr Speaker , which showed just about everybody in a bad light . |
| 15 | This was particularly appropriate because the ‘ Flickers ’ did just that ; they moved , ran , fell off bridges , drove trains through parlours , rode wild horses , attacked poor wee Indians , flew aeroplanes , and rammed just about every aspect of everything that normal people never did , on to a square screen in the local box of delights known as ‘ The Picters ’ , ‘ The Flicks ’ , or if you came from Clarkston , High Burnside , Shawlands or Jordanhill , ‘ The Cineemaaa ’ … |
| 16 | The team sampled just about all of the fantastic rides on offer . |
| 17 | Beck and Azinger birdied just about every hole and the fourball betterball for the match was 14 under par for 17 holes . |
| 18 | Over the next months we lost just about every election we contested . |
| 19 | On the 5th of July in Clitheroe , Lancashire , a reader 's band lost just about everything when their van was stolen . |
| 20 | But when I was there there were once one instant is er er the man on watch in the morning he spotted a floating mine come in right down to close to the rock and er er it anchored just about er er a quarter of a mile or maybe two hundred yards off the rock off the tower and er of well when a mine anchors of course it becomes er alive . |
| 21 | Whom er the last one that I can r the last who was alive died just about a fortnight ago . |
| 22 | They had waged three rounds of quick fire war in an all action bout that contained just about every move and punch in the sport . |
| 23 | ’ Why ’ Frejji was saying , ’ somebody told me they saw just about the nastiest bunch , come in lately . |
| 24 | However , a few months ago , a friend showed me his latest acquisition , the all-singing-all-dancing computer which did just about everything except dive for you . |
| 25 | Learn a lesson from a lad I know , who did just about everything wrong . |
| 26 | Unkindly , I laughed and told him that that sounded just about the worst idea I had heard for a very long time . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I was doing my third week as a young crime reporter and had just about finished my second and last story of the day when the phone rang . |
| 29 | I picked up reasonable speed and had just about regained my composure when a hand appeared on my left shoulder from behind ! |
| 30 | I thought I had just about run the gamut of sexual experiences , but nothing like this had ever happened to me before . |