Example sentences of "[that] he was about [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did exactly that , little knowing that he was about to stumble upon one of the greatest discoveries of this century . |
| 2 | It meant that he was about to go to work . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If it can not be shown that the person uttering the remarks intended to induce his victim to believe that he was about to engage in violence himself , or intended to provoke the object of his remarks into using unlawful violence , what will be termed here the objective conditions come into operation . |
| 5 | It seemed that he was about to slap her and she leaned forward to take it , accepting it as the thing one did for hysteria . |
| 6 | But it had not really exposed him to the form of politics that he was about to encounter again in France — parliamentary politics . |
| 7 | Although on the eve of the conference Wells had announced that he was about to take steps to revoke his province 's approval of the accord , during the course of the meeting he was persuaded to reconsider this position . |
| 8 | But he was aware of the stage in his career which he had reached , and work on the preparation of Collected Poems had made him feel that he was about to retire . |
| 9 | Manley was re-elected president of the PNP for the 22nd consecutive time at the party 's annual conference in late September , his re-election dispelling rumours that he was about to retire from politics and resign as Prime Minister . |
| 10 | How deliberately he used the wrong names I do n't know but he would announce that he was about to demonstrate the " Leg push " . |
| 11 | Sister Cooney sensed that he was about to confide something that he might later regret . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | All her senses stunned , she realised that he was about to strike her again , and this time , when he did so , oblivion took her , man , woman and jeering watchers all disappearing into the vacant dark … |
| 14 | He spoke in Italian , but his words were interspersed with English too , and Meredith sensed the excitement in him , her muddled brain recognising that he was about to announce something important . |
| 15 | Emmie saw , appalled , that he was about to tell him the truth . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | General Sherman … has raised up an army on the four sides of Joseph just when it seemed most probable that he was about to escape … |
| 18 | He would be certain , positive , that he was about to walk Into a tree , or a post or sign he had n't noticed ; even that somebody had been watching from behind a tree and was about to leap out and punch him hard on the nose . |
| 19 | She thought that he was about to choke , or to strike her down , and that would be the end , the very end ; but did she not deserve it , and more , for the way in which she was speaking to him ? |
| 20 | In the darkness of the car , she felt instinctively that he was about to kiss her , then to her dismay he seemed to change his mind . |
| 21 | Indeed , as C. S. L. Davies has suggested , the arrogance with which he treated his fellow-councillors in the two years before his fall in October 1549 may owe a lot to his outstanding success at Pinkie , when he may have believed that he was about to achieve what some of the greatest of English kings had failed to do . |
| 22 | On 9 January 1957 he told the Cabinet that he was about to resign on health grounds . |