Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [was/were] about to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spoke my name and told me that I was about to be released . |
| 2 | She jumped to her feet , screaming in terror , certain that she was about to be trampled on . |
| 3 | He was frighteningly close , and Robbie , certain for a terrifying instant that she was about to be attacked , was trembling violently . |
| 4 | As soon as you saw that you were about to be struck , you stood at attention and waited for the blows . |
| 5 | The snuffles and crunches of some unknown thing convinced my grandad that we were about to be mugged . |
| 6 | Roughly halfway between the target and the coast the rear gunner signalled that we were about to be attacked and my ham-fisted evasive action severed the repair that the Night engineer had made to the aileron controls . |
| 7 | Thus all things were bearing an equal strain and we were westward-bound when a frantic signal from the rear gunner warned me that we were about to be attacked again , and my heavy-handed evasive action severed the aileron control repair . |
| 8 | The Mirror has been beset in recent weeks with rumours and reports that it was about to be taken over . |
| 9 | The drummer claims he had no idea that he was about to be sacked and was shocked to hear the news . |
| 10 | When Christopher Steffen , reportedly a slash and burn merchant when it comes to cutting costs and staff , quit Eastman Kodak Co on Wednesday after just seven weeks in the job of chief financial officer of Eastman Kodak Co , saying that the team was agreed on the objectives , but had irreconcilable differences on how to get from here to there , IBM Corp shares jumped for joy in anticipation that he was about to be named finance chief — but the joy subsided and so did the share price , off 87.5 cents at $49 when nothing happened yesterday ; word out of IBM is that there is an appointment already to be announced , but unless the fact that Steffen is now at a loose end causes a last-minute re-think , he is not the man that IBM has in mind . |
| 11 | The best evidence that the victim — the person towards whom the threats , abuses or insults were directed — did believe that he was about to be subjected to immediate violence would come from the mouth of the victim himself , but it is not necessary to produce a bystander as a witness in court to prove the point ; it can be a matter for inference from the narrative of events presented to the court . |
| 12 | He had seemed thrown for a moment , as though it had genuinely slipped his mind that he was about to be married . |