Example sentences of "[noun sg] were about [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a series of physical exchanges in which Bremner rarely came second , the referee detected that the increasing levels of animosity were about to spoil the game as a spectacle and sent both Bremner and Keegan for an early bath . |
| 2 | After around twelve years of what had been almost continuous debate , the recommendations of the Wolfenden Committee were about to reach their legislative conclusion . |
| 3 | Lowe could n't know at the time how much both his private life and his work were about to go right . |
| 4 | In the Talmud , and therefore dating from the very early centuries of the Common Era , there is the following comment on the Exodus story of the crossing of the Sea : ‘ When the Egyptian hosts were drowning in the Red Sea , ’ say the rabbis , ‘ the angels in heaven were about to break forth into songs of jubilation . |
| 5 | The band were about to fly from Ibiza to the bash in their Nottingham home-town , when the fans spotted them . |
| 6 | He and his wife were about to undertake a trip to America and Australia , which in the event developed into something of a busman 's holiday as he was persuaded , perhaps not against his will , to address numerous meetings of trade unionists on the West Coast of the United States and elsewhere . |
| 7 | At the time when the survey was conducted , the vast majority of Oxfordshire 's schools had already reported the results of a whole school review to their governors and to the LEA , and the rest were about to follow suit . |
| 8 | The accident happened just as the duo were about to turn into the hairpin before the pits straight on the Adelaide street circuit . |
| 9 | More ominously , the well-dressed young stranger always appeared at the tavern around the same time the mysterious woman and her page were about to leave . |
| 10 | And he exited so violently down the throat of Hell that he ripped the tongue and set the snout bobbing as if Hell were about to sneeze . |
| 11 | Me and my dad were about to cut these dykes when it came on hard . |
| 12 | With the so-called ’ Dianagate ’ story provoking speculation that the Royal couple were about to separate the press besiged Cyril Reenan 's house . |
| 13 | Before this game we were told that this was the poorest Irish team in memory , that Irish rugby was in the doldrums and that the swashbuckling French were about to turn on the after-burners and skyrocket into the stratosphere . |