Example sentences of "we [was/were] about [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matt wanted to know how her parents had fared over the last few years , and as we were about to leave the table he asked her to stay and tell him about them . |
| 2 | Only when we were about to board the helicopter were we told we were going instead to Rangkul . |
| 3 | The 20th Century Fox logo always made me think we were about to see a war film , as the searchlights that had woken us in London in the blitz always preceded an air-raid . |
| 4 | ‘ We were about to conduct a study into the skin damage problem on Miller wells , ’ said Paul Adair , team leader on Miller well operations . |
| 5 | We knew that we were about to join a convoy coming from America . |
| 6 | Without even tossing a coin into the fountain we were about to experience the fairytale hospitality of the champenoise . |