Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am about to retire to the breakfast parlour with Mr Beckenham and Miss Merchiston . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's all very exciting for me at the moment , here I am about to go around the world for the first time , seeing cities like New York , which I have always dreamed of seeing . |
| 3 | The figures that I am about to present to the House will embarrass the Leader of the House , but I shall get them on the record none the less . |
| 4 | Anything else ? because I 'm a , I 'm about to quit on the monthly calendar cards and monthly planning . |
| 5 | I 'm about to get on the phone as well |
| 6 | I was about to refer to the order dealing with access . |
| 7 | ‘ What height is this table ? ’ he said suddenly , just as I was about to go to the breadbin for a slice to wipe my plate with . |
| 8 | Last time I was on the list I was about to go to the Norwich and Liverpool games — well at least I saw plenty of goals ! ! |
| 9 | I was about to head for the lift when I noticed a chink of light at the end of the corridor . |
| 10 | Their running was impeded by the mass of men coming out of the main doors and scattering in all directions , and heads down , they made their way between them to the back of the Naafi and into the rest room , which was empty ; and they were just in the process of taking off their wet top coats when the supervisor came in , saying , ‘ Oh , I 'm in luck ; I was about to send to the hut for help . |
| 11 | My favourite tale , comes from Corner Pool , when Rob was fishing one cold March day : ‘ I was about to start at the top of the pool when I happened to spot a flicker of movement close to the north bank . |
| 12 | ‘ As I was about to come on the ref told me , ‘ I 'll be watching you closely . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're down to go to the dentist Friday , ’ Paul says . |
| 14 | In the bottom of the pit there is a corresponding calm — it is the still centre of the spiral — and an odd sense of hollowness , as if you were about to drop into the deeps of the earth 's psyche ( and of your own ) like a stone down a mineshaft . |
| 15 | Now she 's about to compete in the first ever round-the-world air race . |
| 16 | Together with the first harvest sheaf hanging beside the icon for its protective magic , these are reminders that our peasant lives in several cultural times simultaneously , one of them embedded deep in the pagan past , another in the religious present , a third focused on the trip she is about to take to the town of Roslavl' . |
| 17 | This is usually a sure sign that she is about to quote from the collected works of Old Mother Walsh , and this , indeed , is what she did : ‘ Shoes are remarkable , warm , bright and neat . |
| 18 | She is about to compete in the British championships in Bavaria . |
| 19 | She was about to go round the back when the casement on the ground floor creaked open and an ample hand appeared followed by a full face , framed by thick straight grey hair , secured with a slide . |
| 20 | She felt sad and immensely tired that she was about to see for the first time how Eddie had died . |
| 21 | ‘ Refreshing , ’ she euphemistically called the British climate she was about to face for the first time as a ‘ star ’ . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , amid the to-ings and fro-ings , Norma Major , with her daughter Elizabeth , was turning heads dressed in Liberal Democrat yellow as if she was about to parade through the Royal Enclosure at Ascot . |
| 23 | No hint that she was about to walk into the last surprise party that she could ever expect to see . |
| 24 | Then , just as she was about to step into the water , Marie-Angèle's's voice rose in a shrill whisper at the door . |
| 25 | The Muzak reached a gap as she was about to knock on the door and she could hear he was being told by the hotel that his credit was n't good . |
| 26 | Where we should expect to match France and Germany for industrial growth , we are about to fall below the levels of Greece and Portugal ’ . |
| 27 | I remember that we got round to talking about historical hindsight , or the kind of attitude to which André Maurois ( to whom I was to introduce Eliot years later ) referred when he imagined a man saying ‘ Gentlemen , we are about to enter upon the Middle Ages ’ . |
| 28 | It transpired that the previous day he had been in Liverpool and given an interview to the Daily Telegraph which had been interpreted to mean that we were about to call in the troops . |
| 29 | Reggane was on the route from Oran , and we were about to transfer to the route from Algiers , along a one hundred and eighty mile dog-leg . |
| 30 | She 'd never seen either of us in a suit before — we were running them in , checking for labels we 'd missed and so on — and we had stood on her doorstep as if we were about to launch into the ‘ Have you heard the Good News … ’ routine . |