Example sentences of "be just about [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Q I am just about to leave school and would be interested to know about any available equestrian courses I can take . |
| 2 | Mr Deputy Speaker , no I did not know the exact amount of the recommendation but I of course assumed there was likely to be some pay increase and I have made an increase in grant which I am just about to explain to the house which will go some way to meet the requirements of local authorities and there are other assets and resources they have er which I will illustrate later on in my speech . |
| 3 | " 10 is for the shit I blew over you and 10 is for the shit I am just about to blow over you , Good-day sir . " |
| 4 | I am just about to tell you Q A P U quan quango , it 's a Q U A N G O semi public body with financial support from and senior appointments made by government . |
| 5 | It feels as though I am just about to end , just about to end . |
| 6 | If you are just about to move house it might be preferable to have your pet cremated and bury the ashes in your new garden . |
| 7 | The orchestra is now playing songs from Chu Chin Chow and the audience is joining in.The years of practise , of developing my special technique , are just about to pay off . |
| 8 | And the daffs are just about to burst out . |
| 9 | My boyfriend has just asked me to marry him and we are just about to break the good news to our families . |
| 10 | He is younger than Howard expected , with crisp curly hair , full smooth cheeks which are just about to smile , at his own jokes , but never quite do , and thick horn-rimmed spectacles through which his magnified eyes watch carefully to estimate audience reaction . |
| 11 | It may be that they have just had their operation or they are just about to have it . ’ |
| 12 | We 're at Los Angeles airport and we 're just about to leave but Barry 's a little unsure about the song . ’ |
| 13 | We 're just about to leave Sian by air for Nanking , and we 've just heard that a bevy of Brit . |
| 14 | She sits there she goes and she stops and you 're just about to go to sleep and she goes so loud ! |
| 15 | It occurs to me we 're just about to circulate the picture of that man , Stein , suspected of wholesale fraud — so maybe we get them mixed up , Kurt . ’ |
| 16 | But we 're just about to cross the shipping channel . |
| 17 | ‘ We 're just about to have a new camera and darkroom ’ , he said , ‘ and then we shall only be about ten years behind the times . ’ |
| 18 | Is it possible , this is quite a bit of work we 're just about to enter into , which we may have to repeat . |
| 19 | They 're just about to bring one out are n't they ? |
| 20 | With a broad smile , David says : ‘ We have also been looking at Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy and we 're just about to start on Marilyn Monroe ! ’ |
| 21 | We 're we 're just about to mail may be it 's gone out now , six thousand universities and colleges throughout the U K. And state schools are as interested that product as independents . |
| 22 | If you want a mixture of species and colours , grow individual bulbs separately in plant pots and then plant up an arrangement using bulbs which have reached the same stage of development and look to be just about to flower . |
| 23 | Yes , I 'm just about to give you an assignment sheet , those ten people . |
| 24 | I 'm just about to put it away in my file when I see that there is something else pencilled upside down at the bottom . |
| 25 | I 'm just about to put them back up . |
| 26 | I I I 'm just about to do that |
| 27 | I 'm just about to go to bed and I thought I 'd ring and see how things are with you . ’ |
| 28 | I 'm just about to go to Panch Chule which is a mountain in the Indian Himalaya . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd invite you in for a chat , ’ said Joe , ‘ but I 'm just about to go out . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm just about to take them off . ’ |