Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] was about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some , however , refused to be impressed : in 1858 , when his fame was just beginning , a lady known to history only as Miss Marsh , and someone who occupied herself in converting Irish navvies , was told that the man in the railway carriage she was about to enter was Mr Spurgeon . |
| 2 | The joker exaggerated Lilley 's plight , but gave an indication of a dilemma he was about to face on the hustings . |
| 3 | Her arrival effectively stemmed any action he was about to take . |
| 4 | She could just imagine the welcome she was about to get from her workmates ! |
| 5 | It was this , I am thinking , that made Miss Jonathan realize that if the marriage she was about to enter into with a man much different from herself , and older also , would not go well , she would never from a Catholic be obtaining a divorce . |
| 6 | WHEN three European foreign ministers trooped off to Moscow last week , Mikhail Gorbachev talked politely about the Gulf war but failed to mention the peace plan he was about to launch . |
| 7 | He began by saying that with the UK vehicle division 's track record over recent years , he could n't really expect to receive any support to the plan he was about to describe . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , if I am , Mrs Hamilton certainly must be , ’ she told him seriously , not wanting either of the doctors to see that she did indeed find the responsibility she was about to take on quite daunting now that she knew the full scope of Faye Hamilton 's problems . |
| 9 | ‘ When I first heard about the Food Addict 's Diet I was about 12st 8lb , ’ says Andrea Smith , 34 , of Harpenden , Hertfordshire , who 's married with two children : Hannah , seven , and Nick , three . |
| 10 | ‘ Refreshing , ’ she euphemistically called the British climate she was about to face for the first time as a ‘ star ’ . |
| 11 | The CO chuckled with unashamed glee at the little joke he was about to make at Charles 's expense . |
| 12 | I thought for one moment he was about to perform a Highland Fling . |
| 13 | His face looked old and crumpled and sad , and , as he picked up his glass again , I had the strong sensation he was about to tell me something I did n't want to hear . |
| 14 | Time would validate him , the way Klein had said it would ; uncover his many works , and show him , at last , as the visionary he was about to become . |
| 15 | I stopped wearing Tampax ( cotton wool pricks ) , and I stopped eating meat in case the chunk of sizzling corpse I was about to sit down to had come from a male animal . |
| 16 | She soothed herself with the thought that the small deception she was about to practise was not the only reason for her attack of nerves : her own college in London , housed in a nondescript modern block , had nothing at all in common with the medieval gateway in front of her . |
| 17 | Yeah and then it disappeared then , I think , you know , I could see it deteriorating every day it was about , it was about three of my cars parking here . |
| 18 | His mother Ninsun , a minor goddess , interpreted both these dreams for him , identifying the meteor and the axe as the new friend he was about to make . |
| 19 | On one occasion he was about to go on board a ship that had just anchored when unforeseen business detained him . |
| 20 | The idea was that I should be in the right state of mind for the concert I was about to conduct . |
| 21 | Would he just as keenly defend the strict Presbyterian religion of the island he was about to visit , I wondered . |
| 22 | Charles had an unpleasant feeling he was about to sacrifice his recently-won calm . |
| 23 | Still pinned to the floor I was about to burst into tears of frustration when I was suddenly released . |
| 24 | ‘ Which is the mistake I was about to make . ’ |
| 25 | And when he got into this lane he was about a hundred yards off the village . |
| 26 | ‘ When I saw Ivo with a parcel he was about to mail to his wife 's cousin in Karlovy Vary , I told him I was driving that way , and that I 'd drop it into the shop where Edita 's cousin works if he wished . ’ |
| 27 | Amsterdam rose and put his hand on his aunt 's shoulder as if to soften the blow he was about to deliver . |
| 28 | There was Maria Filippa , however , looking at him through her glasses which had misted up in horror and grief at his outburst , gulping the air like a fish ; she was not like his sister Rosa , not one of those girls he had to protect from their own compulsions , but his own beloved and burdened wife , so reserved in bed that he even regretted her modesty himself , and so far from the whore he was about to call her , he shuddered from head to foot . |
| 29 | After the New Orleans episode and this latest scrape he was about to embark on , Coy and his sort would never have him back . |
| 30 | After a couple of sentences he went into the present tense , which was a habit he had in speaking of the past , as if it were the plot of some play he was about to do . |