Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] he [be] about [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Umpire Barker made no response to the appeal , whereupon Richards — who at slip was in precisely the wrong place to see what had happened — danced down the pitch waving his right hand frantically , giving every appearance that he was about to remonstrate forcefully with the umpire ; whereupon Mr Barker raised his finger and Bailey was on his way . |
| 2 | If a person were to announce to a policeman that he was about to go to the house of his sworn enemy and beat the living daylights out of him , it would not make sense if the law were that the policeman had to follow the suspect to the locus in quo and only then arrest him . |
| 3 | But before Modi could continue , Rivera shut his eyes , a sign that he was about to break into one of his fits , when he would erupt and turn white . |
| 4 | On 9 January 1957 he told the Cabinet that he was about to resign on health grounds . |
| 5 | He may well have heard in some reach of his mind an as yet uncreated harmony , as a composer hears the music that he is about to translate into sound . |
| 6 | How often will anti-Europeans sneeringly bait him by reminding the House that he is about to bail out ? |
| 7 | But it had not really exposed him to the form of politics that he was about to encounter again in France — parliamentary politics . |
| 8 | John 's feeling of self-worth will equip him better to cope with the trauma that he is about to face . |