Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] just about [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'd just about begun to believe him . |
| 2 | I 'd just about got a speech arranged when you announced that the afternoon had been no big deal ! ’ |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I had just about run myself dry of duff funnies regarding the trusty Smith and Whatsaname . |
| 7 | I thought I had just about run the gamut of sexual experiences , but nothing like this had ever happened to me before . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've just about heard of her , but I could tell she 's famous , just by the way she sits and holds her head and moves . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I think I 've just about stopped making anything out of anything . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've just about had you — in spades ! |
| 11 | Now since I 've just about learnt the difference between the sharp end and the blunt end of a boat , I 've decided to go straight to the top and get some expert advice from the R Y A and who better than the R Y A's national coach John , Hi John . |
| 12 | I 've just about managed to forgive him . |
| 13 | And I 've just about managed to get staccato in the right hand . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | ‘ I 've just about finished here . |
| 16 | Well I 've just about finished marking for the moment , er what it is erm I went out last night , ill advised |
| 17 | I think I 've just about finished with it |
| 18 | ‘ I have just about lost my voice , ’ he told a largely working-class crowd at McAllen , Texas . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've just about gone the limit now . ’ |
| 21 | If you can imagine a benevolent and myopic stork in goggles and woolly hat , then you 've just about got the picture . |
| 22 | And eventually you think you 've just about got it sussed and they throw in indexes . |
| 23 | She had just about finished , when she began to make out footsteps approaching from deeper in the maze of drums . |
| 24 | The crossing to Ostend was uneventful , with Fabia , when not hoping with all she had that everything would be all right with Barney , trying to come to terms with the fact that , despite having an innate aversion to lies and deception , she had just about agreed to practise both . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've just about got time for a quick swim before breakfast . ’ |
| 26 | WELL , we 've just about come full circle . |
| 27 | Fortunately we had just about recovered in time for the practical session . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | WE have just about got used to the framework for personal and company pensions introduced in 1986 , with its incentives for ‘ contracting out ’ of the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme ( SERPS ) and the freedom to transfer pension rights from company schemes to personal pensions . |
| 30 | John Flook , authority deputy chief executive , said at a meeting yesterday : ‘ We have just about cracked the problem . ’ |