Example sentences of "just about [vb infin] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of its stars are bluish-white , but there is one red supergiant which stands out ; I can just about detect its colour with × 12 , though admittedly a telescope is needed to show the cluster in its full splendour . |
| 2 | I remember the over-eager , gaping mouths and outstretched necks , as well as those who could only just about lift their eyelids and had to have the food forced down their throats so that they would have the strength to keep fighting for life . |
| 3 | Although Lord Rees-Mogg 's confession that he is not a modernist can just about explain his neglect of artists such as Schoenberg , Proust , Kafka , Beckett and Auden , sheer ignorance is the only way in which one can account for the omission of Charles Sherrington , Alan Hodgkin , Lord Adrian and David Hubel , to name but four in neurophysiology ; Rutherford , Bohr , Planck , Heisenberg , Dirac and Gell-Man in physics . |
| 4 | I could just about twitch my fingers , but certainly could n't pick anything up . |
| 5 | They could just about tolerate his seedy affair with Antonia de Sancha . |
| 6 | Me being carted off with the sirens going would just about put my street cred in overdraft . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | I said that I thought I could just about get my act together sufficiently to come . |
| 9 | I can just about remember my own , but I do n't rack up the angst if I have to extract the address book and look up Oliver Russell in it . |