Example sentences of "was [adv prt] [to-vb] into the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She turned away and was about to swing into the jeep when he strode forward and barred her way with the racket across the open doorway .
2 Perhaps Hambury was about to turn into the place Biff had originally described to them back at the workhouse .
3 Then , just as she was about to step into the water , Marie-Angèle's's voice rose in a shrill whisper at the door .
4 He was about to disappear into the tangle of tubes and ducts .
5 The boy picked up the knife and was about to cut into the cake when he stopped .
6 The villagers close to it believed that the Dark Ireland was about to ride into the world , but only Medoc rode out , astride a coal-black horse , with Maeve thrown across the saddle before him .
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