Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] about to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was about to be taken over . |
| 2 | Spoke my name and told me that I was about to be released . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Why I was bedding you if I was about to be married to someone else ? ’ he asked softly . |
| 5 | ‘ I was about to be found out , ’ Fabia inserted . |
| 6 | ‘ I was about to be even more demented , ’ Ven corrected . |
| 7 | The picture he had painted was so vivid that once again she felt as if she were about to be sick . |
| 8 | As soon as you saw that you were about to be struck , you stood at attention and waited for the blows . |
| 9 | You were about to be hauled into his car , whatever your mind decided . ’ |
| 10 | Neighbours , the show she was about to be seen leaving on British TV screens , was voted top TV show and her co-star Jason Donovan carried off four awards too . |
| 11 | She knew she was about to be hassled . |
| 12 | She jumped to her feet , screaming in terror , certain that she was about to be trampled on . |
| 13 | She was about to be impaled on jagged strips of metal . |
| 14 | She was about to be buggered . |
| 15 | She was about to be investigated and charged with malpractice towards a patient . |
| 16 | Sensing she was about to be taken further into Rune 's confidence , Gina encouraged him gently , forgetting her previous animosity at his high-handedness . |
| 17 | He was frighteningly close , and Robbie , certain for a terrifying instant that she was about to be attacked , was trembling violently . |
| 18 | A few days ago a woman woke up just as she was about to be stuffed with the previous day 's New York Post and varnished with embalming fluid by an undertaker . |
| 19 | The snuffles and crunches of some unknown thing convinced my grandad that we were about to be mugged . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If the crowd anticipate passé renditions of classic ME songs like ‘ I Melt With You ’ they were about to be disillusioned . |
| 23 | Thucydides , an acute social historian when he wants to be , remarks that ‘ most of the dealings between the Spartans and their helots were of a precautionary character ’ ( iv.80 ) , and tells a suitably laconic story of two thousand specially manly helots who were garlanded and led round the temples as if they were about to be given their freedom ; they were never seen again and nobody knew what happened to them . |
| 24 | They took their seats on canvas chairs which were placed side by side on the strip of red tiling , as if they were about to be photographed or to review a marching column . |
| 25 | Detectives believe they were about to be shipped to the manufacturing base in a spare room of the house in Highgate . |
| 26 | It somehow seemed to be a cutting-off point , as if they were about to be flown away from any contact with civilisation . |
| 27 | They were about to be handed the photographic opportunity most tourists only dream of . |
| 28 | ‘ I would hardly be joining a group if I felt it was about to be taken over . |
| 29 | It was about to be discontinued by its Colorado makers until the war dramatically boosted demand . |
| 30 | The Mirror has been beset in recent weeks with rumours and reports that it was about to be taken over . |