Example sentences of "[pers pn] just about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried eating a sandwich with my second cup of tea and I just about managed it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I 'd been welcome in that house for as long as you had-longer , because you were away and I just about lived there . |
| 4 | The manually wound windows I just about learned to live with , but the lack of central locking and the consequently long and awkward stretches to lock passenger doors provided the sort of exercise I can do without . |
| 5 | handbag and that bag , Christmas tree can go there , that can go there and I just about be able to make it Brenda , just about be able to make it |
| 6 | woke up about quarter to seven , I think I was oblivious I just about sailed off again about after putting this back . |
| 7 | so did I , I just about chuck the |
| 8 | and then er , so by half past four I just about had enough like , so five o'clock I said well for Christ sake come on open your stocking now like and waking Arthur up and he saying well I ai n't , and I said come on it 's five o'clock , alright , and by six o'clock we 're downstairs , half past six the door |
| 9 | Oh God I just about it ! |
| 10 | I thought I oh and it must , must be the one round now I think I just about managed to get round the front |
| 11 | Hmm , well , okay , last night Mickey , you and I just about wrote off Lester Piggott 's career , and er today , well inside the last furlong of er one of his three races I believe today , this is how Rapid Raceline 's course commentator John Penny , saw the closing stages . |
| 12 | It gives them just about the only real charisma in the seedy well paid , well heeled , loser pen . |
| 13 | It gives them just about the only real charisma in the seedy well paid , well heeled , loser pen . |
| 14 | The telephones kept me just about busy but the potential for job satisfaction in the tasks I was required to do was almost nil . |
| 15 | Oh did I laugh me just about done with these |
| 16 | It can offer you just about everything you can think of by day and by night , in abundance . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , the first single to be released on Expo is ‘ Forfeit ’ by a band called Fuel — coming to a shop near you just about now . |
| 18 | It tells you just about how much organic matter is present . |
| 19 | when you just about had me summed up |
| 20 | You just about got these worked out . |
| 21 | Which will give you just about the right amount of time then to walk up . |
| 22 | but as she said you if you make twenty arrangements and you sell half of them you just about break even with the flowers you 've bought to do them . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And she just about managed it . |
| 25 | ( 141 ) She just about made me carry her upstairs and then she clung to me … |
| 26 | but , then the next morning of course when Wendy got home she 'd been down my nephew 's looking after the kids for them and erm , and said we 've come to arrest you , and no , oh Rachael said oh mum there 's a police car pulled up outside , so she said , oh my god do n't tell me they 're wrong and it is Tracey , cos Tracey 's left home , she 's gone to live with her friend and erm , anyway , when Wendy got to the stairs she could n't go in , she could n't go any further and she said erm , when , when the policeman said Mrs I 've come to arrest you , she just about said Christ she said what have I done ? |
| 27 | ‘ I think we just about ran out of alleyway , Barry . |
| 28 | We just about figure out how to together |
| 29 | ‘ I was one of their less incandescent members of staff — they just about kicked me out actually . ’ |
| 30 | David Speedy 's goal enough to get all three points for Leicester and I think on the balance of play they just about edged it but Forest put up a marvellous performance in the second half especially when they had to make er changes and things did n't go well for them . |