Example sentences of "i [be] about to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If Major Calder and I are about to be deprived of your services , ’ Carew answered evenly , ‘ then we 'll have to use another and faster method of disrupting the IRB organisation . ’ |
| 2 | And a little nervous that I am about to be ticked off for my unorthodox and amiable occupation of the Rosenbloom . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , for the first , as far as I 'm concerned they do n't go without the second , and for the second , I do n't believe I 'm about to be asked . ’ |
| 5 | I was about to be taken over . |
| 6 | Spoke my name and told me that I was about to be released . |
| 7 | Miranda faltered , ‘ I 'll just get changed to go out — I was about to . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Why I was bedding you if I was about to be married to someone else ? ’ he asked softly . |
| 10 | ‘ I was about to be found out , ’ Fabia inserted . |
| 11 | ‘ I was about to be even more demented , ’ Ven corrected . |