Example sentences of "he was [adv] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose he was away about an hour , perhaps less . |
| 2 | He would have liked to hear the figure of his salary ; but just as he was nervously about to sound that note the little boy came back — the little boy Mrs Moreen had sent out of the room to fetch her fan ( 3 ) He came back without the fan , only with the casual observation that he could n't find it . |
| 3 | The dog stopped and he was just about to congratulate himself on his authoritative and successful method of summoning her , when she made a plunging dart forward and seized the mass of cloth in her mouth . |
| 4 | He was just about to sink into a state of total collapse when Tom cried : |
| 5 | He was just about to pick up his suitcase when there was a shout from the other end of the line . |
| 6 | He was just about to be attacked by a horde of anxious faces when he felt himself being gently shaken . |
| 7 | He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer . |
| 8 | He was just about to speak when he became aware that Willie was absorbed in some task . |
| 9 | The writer was once with a small London bookseller who unblushingly pointed out a volume of Arctic travel which he was just about to despatch for the full treatment of glaciers , polar bears and seals . |
| 10 | Indeed , he was just about to ask to be substituted when he collected the ball in the 38th minute on the edge of the area with his back to goal . |
| 11 | He says he was just about to start weight training and wanted a record of his body before and after . |
| 12 | He was just about to stitch my up again when he saw a movement and pulled out an inch-and-a-half-long botfly larva , at which point the nurse in attendance fainted . ’ |
| 13 | But he was just about to walk out . |
| 14 | He was just about to start on his nineteenth nervous breakdown when I left him . ’ |
| 15 | He was just about to pour himself a drink when the phone rang , |
| 16 | He was just about to plunge back into the streets when he saw someone running towards him . |
| 17 | looked around and said well he said looked at me said er well cos he was just about to g throw a wobbly and say , well surely the sales department should be dealing with this , should be should be giving him the information and he he just turned round and gave the aforementioned quote and I just sort of went yes it is . |
| 18 | ‘ He was just about to go away on business when Charles rang to tell him we were n't going to St Lucia after all . |
| 19 | He was just about to walk off when I pulled him back on . |
| 20 | I tried the back again , he bladdered it and he bladdered the f front , but says he was just about to go when I opened one eye . |
| 21 | Just before he got a good grip he went , he got a grip and he was just about to squeeze this , I went I sort of went of tiptoes and I goes , I 'll let it slide this time . |
| 22 | In the South he was just about as deadly in the Minor County cricket as Sydney Barnes was in the North . |
| 23 | There is no express disqualification from voting in the case of mental patients other than the general reference to ‘ any legal incapacity to vote ’ in s.1(l) ( b ) ( i ) of the 1983 Act but it is generally considered that any person who , at the moment of voting , lacked capacity to understand what he was immediately about to do , whether by reason of mental illness or drunkenness , etc. , could be denied the right to vote by the presiding officer at the poll . |
| 24 | And my little boy was he was only about three at the time and I used to be used to angry at him and my neighbour used to come in and take him . |
| 25 | He was only about four when he died and I think it was totally unexpected , because I believe that the doctor who had tended him had remarked previously that he wished his own son , who was about the same age as Thomas Isaac , had been as robust . |
| 26 | But he was tiny now , his feet only reached to halfway across the seat , he was only about twelve inches tall . |
| 27 | On Pippin 's side there was also a crucial non-participant : Bernard " though he was only about 8 km away from the battlefield , gave no help to either side " . |
| 28 | I told you he was only about a year old |
| 29 | He was only about two meters away from me and he was like shooting me in the back . |
| 30 | Edward was given the contract and threw himself into it with vigour , aided no doubt by his life-long abhorrence of the building which he was now about to replace . |