Example sentences of "[was/were] about [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soft-centred milk chocolates that came as one bit them seemed almost as exciting as dancing with someone you knew you were about to sleep with used to be . |
| 2 | He got out of bed and walked across to Jackie as if he were about to say something . |
| 3 | ‘ And you were about to say , lass , he 's no friend of yours . |
| 4 | Er er it 's ac It occurred to me that what what you were about to say cos Whit |
| 5 | Sarah seemed as if she were about to say something else , then thought better of it . |
| 6 | Miss Agnew , you were about to say ? ’ |
| 7 | Is that what you were about to say , Aurora ? |
| 8 | I thought you would g , oh I thought you were about to say I 've decided I 'm not coming . |
| 9 | They had just returned to the courtyard and were about to examine the various outbuildings when they heard the sound of running footsteps . |
| 10 | It looked as if they were about to push back their chairs and join her at her table , and only just in time , Cassie remembered that she needed no further complications in an already bewildering and uncontrollable life . |
| 11 | Just when they were about to ask Brussels to impose the fruits of their labour as the official standard for European direct-broadcast satellites , someone at the French foreign ministry leaked a report which argues that their technology , called D2 MAC , is already out of date . |
| 12 | He looked as if he were about to argue but then he shrugged . |
| 13 | Little did he know that the experienced dealers were about to teach him a lesson . |
| 14 | And that 's how Millie saw them when she entered the kitchen again , carrying the plate of chitterlings : the two people she cared for most , and who were about to lose her , laughing their heads off . |
| 15 | ‘ If I imagined you were about to repeat your foolishness of the other day I would insist that you came back to Paris now . |
| 16 | It was clear that we were about to interview a corporate treasure . |
| 17 | These 2 badgers were rescued from baiters who were about to let their dogs kill the animals . |
| 18 | Realising she had no chance of winning an argument against the use of first names when they were about to spend several weeks alone at sea together , Polly made a brief gesture of acquiescence . |
| 19 | ‘ We were about to conduct a study into the skin damage problem on Miller wells , ’ said Paul Adair , team leader on Miller well operations . |
| 20 | Love the ultimate four letter word and were about to use it all over your television screen . |
| 21 | The Wisharts were about to settle down to their reading when the corridor door slid open and an elderly lady eased her way into the compartment ; the newcomer was wearing a striking black silk dress and black hat which were very reminiscent of the Victorian age . |
| 22 | I felt as though I were about to undergo an important test . ’ |
| 23 | Those whom Balfour had described as ‘ the existing non-Jewish communities of Palestine ’ were about to undergo their first catastrophe . |
| 24 | We were about to carry on when we saw two women with their loads of pine-needles coming down the path towards us . |
| 25 | The two Agentes were about to object but had the sense to see what Benjamin was doing . |
| 26 | And just as they were about to leave , as if to make a grand exit of it , O kissed Boy again , very publicly . |
| 27 | From their earliest days the local groups relied upon the cooperation of schools and education authorities , and to a lesser extent club workers , to supply them with the necessary information concerning pupils who were about to leave school . |
| 28 | Similarly , in their daily practice , as in London , each SCC nominated a ‘ responsible helper ’ who first met the headteacher to discuss those juveniles who were about to leave school , and then interviewed the young people themselves and their parents . |
| 29 | Just as we were about to leave , Frank Dick called me to one side and gave me a blistering reprimand . |
| 30 | Sometimes they 'd fuck right away , or sometimes they 'd wait till they were about to leave , but they 'd always do it on the sheet , the same sheet he 'd brought that first time , as if , without it , some spell might be broken and everything would fall apart . |