Example sentences of "i was about to [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
| 2 | ‘ I was about to be found out , ’ Fabia inserted . |
| 3 | I was about to be taken over . |
| 4 | ‘ Why I was bedding you if I was about to be married to someone else ? ’ he asked softly . |
| 5 | Spoke my name and told me that I was about to be released . |