Example sentences of "was [adv prt] [to-vb] into [art] [noun sg] " 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 | He would be certain , positive , that he was about to walk Into a tree , or a post or sign he had n't noticed ; even that somebody had been watching from behind a tree and was about to leap out and punch him hard on the nose . |
| 4 | Then , just as she was about to step into the water , Marie-Angèle's's voice rose in a shrill whisper at the door . |
| 5 | He was about to disappear into the tangle of tubes and ducts . |
| 6 | The boy picked up the knife and was about to cut into the cake when he stopped . |
| 7 | 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 . |