Example sentences of "that [pron] [be] about to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a little nervous that I am about to be ticked off for my unorthodox and amiable occupation of the Rosenbloom . |
| 2 | My heart , or what passes for one in demonic physiology , is in my mouth , for fear that I am about to be exiled from Rainbow Rosenbloom , and from Chinese food , movies and other earthly delights , for evermore . |
| 3 | Spoke my name and told me that I was about to be released . |
| 4 | Obviously inspired by MADONNA 's example , ( and it seems that she 's about to be millions of dollars richer as over half a million copies of Sex changed hands last week ) CURVE have decided to come over all raunchy and are releasing a Stateside compilation which goes under the provocative title of ‘ Pubic Fruit ’ , although whose pubes are involved we are not informed . |
| 5 | She jumped to her feet , screaming in terror , certain that she was about to be trampled on . |
| 6 | He was frighteningly close , and Robbie , certain for a terrifying instant that she was about to be attacked , was trembling violently . |
| 7 | We gather that you are about to be visited by Anne and the other Susan , not forgetting Megan . |
| 8 | As soon as you saw that you were about to be struck , you stood at attention and waited for the blows . |
| 9 | The snuffles and crunches of some unknown thing convinced my grandad that we were about to be mugged . |
| 10 | Roughly halfway between the target and the coast the rear gunner signalled that we were about to be attacked and my ham-fisted evasive action severed the repair that the Night engineer had made to the aileron controls . |
| 11 | Thus all things were bearing an equal strain and we were westward-bound when a frantic signal from the rear gunner warned me that we were about to be attacked again , and my heavy-handed evasive action severed the aileron control repair . |
| 12 | A spokesman for the Banking Industry has denied that there are about to be any job losses and it is hoped that that statement is correct . |
| 13 | ‘ Attention was called to the Company 's payment of £50 per annum to the Vicar of Stantonbury for managing these schools , seeing that they are about to be handed over to a School Board and it was agreed that the payment be continued as in respect of Sunday School management , but during the pleasure of the Board and to the present incumbent only ’ . |
| 14 | VILLAGERS in Peru are living in terror that they are about to be haunted by a vampire … from Blackburn . |
| 15 | The Mirror has been beset in recent weeks with rumours and reports that it was about to be taken over . |
| 16 | HAPPY Prince Andrew has a ball on the golf course … unaware that he is about to be at the centre of a new royal taping scandal . |
| 17 | Technically , an assault is either the application of force to the person of another , or the threat to apply it in such a way as to cause the other to fear or apprehend that he is about to be subjected to force . |
| 18 | The drummer claims he had no idea that he was about to be sacked and was shocked to hear the news . |
| 19 | When Christopher Steffen , reportedly a slash and burn merchant when it comes to cutting costs and staff , quit Eastman Kodak Co on Wednesday after just seven weeks in the job of chief financial officer of Eastman Kodak Co , saying that the team was agreed on the objectives , but had irreconcilable differences on how to get from here to there , IBM Corp shares jumped for joy in anticipation that he was about to be named finance chief — but the joy subsided and so did the share price , off 87.5 cents at $49 when nothing happened yesterday ; word out of IBM is that there is an appointment already to be announced , but unless the fact that Steffen is now at a loose end causes a last-minute re-think , he is not the man that IBM has in mind . |
| 20 | The best evidence that the victim — the person towards whom the threats , abuses or insults were directed — did believe that he was about to be subjected to immediate violence would come from the mouth of the victim himself , but it is not necessary to produce a bystander as a witness in court to prove the point ; it can be a matter for inference from the narrative of events presented to the court . |
| 21 | He had seemed thrown for a moment , as though it had genuinely slipped his mind that he was about to be married . |