Example sentences of "[pron] be just about to start " in BNC.

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1 Right I 'm just about to start bar fourteen .
2 I , I 've bought you back the whip and I 'm just about to start the other one , so hang on to it at the moment , cos I do n't like too many books around that I 've borrowed , I 've got two .
3 ‘ Only a rose — ’ I began as I held out my offering to my husband and I was just about to start on the second line when a Yorkshire pudding with onion gravy flew past my head and stuck with a plop on the ceiling .
4 With a broad smile , David says : ‘ We have also been looking at Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy and we 're just about to start on Marilyn Monroe ! ’
5 Clelia , give James a crust , he 's just about to start to moan .
6 If I 'd had time to think , I would have used my bat , but when I saw the ball , it was just about to start its downward path .
7 He says he was just about to start weight training and wanted a record of his body before and after .
8 He was just about to start on his nineteenth nervous breakdown when I left him . ’
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