Example sentences of "be about [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you 're about to say , hopefully , what is the difference ? |
| 2 | ‘ I think you 're about to say that I do n't understand , but I assure you I do . |
| 3 | See what you 're about to say , Mary |
| 4 | We 're about to lose our coal industry and er we 're about to lose it because of the incompetent blind dogma er of this present government . |
| 5 | We 're about to lose our coal industry and er we 're about to lose it because of the incompetent blind dogma er of this present government . |
| 6 | ‘ Which you 're about to volunteer ? ’ |
| 7 | I 've wiped them from my mind and I think you 're about to do so as well . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It 's because we 're about to declare a state of emergency , ’ Charity responded drily . |
| 9 | ’ We 're about to pick up a very valuable thing . |
| 10 | If you 're about to invest in a new set of cases , bear these points in mind . |
| 11 | Well , if you 're about to set off for your Easter weekend , do take care on the roads . |
| 12 | ‘ They 're about to scatter , ma'am . ’ |
| 13 | We 're about to part company . ’ |
| 14 | So before you 're about to criticise the Spectrum , ask yourself this question : if I did n't have a computer and I was trying to look for one and I only had enough money for the Spectrum , what would I do ? |
| 15 | They 're about to cash in on striker Mark Stein , who 's on his way to Chelsea from Stoke for 1.6 million pounds . |
| 16 | They 're about to form the basis of a sofa . |
| 17 | They 're about to form the basis of a sofa . |
| 18 | Everybody talks in a mixture of mumbling whispers and hysterical screams , and every time somebody starts making small-talk it means they 're about to kill somebody . |
| 19 | just so can we get back to research about beginners because I 'm worried about how much there is on the tape and you 're about to drive to Pitlochrie erm basically you have to define a beginner to see what they want to do |
| 20 | You 're about to put a proposition to us , later on , about how we change documents in the process form , authorising the change and the re-issuing . |
| 21 | Well , as a chemist perhaps you 'll forgive me for dwelling largely on what we as chemists do , but of course it 's not only the chemists in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences who do things for schools — it 's right across the area — but each year , for example , we have a week set aside for sixth form visits , in which parties of sixth formers come to the School and we 're about to talk to them about university entrance , about what goes on in universities , but , most importantly , to show them some of the apparatus which they do n't have at school but which they 've probably heard about . |
| 22 | Or if they do manage to put you in a bedroom , remember that you 've got a whole camera team there , and they usually want to do some extraordinary shot from very close up , so they put you right on the edge of the bed , probably on a board which you 're about to fall off at any minute . |
| 23 | We 're in a transmat booth , and we 're about to go on an instant journey . ’ |
| 24 | Be careful , too , about leaving appliances on when you 're about to go out , or even using Economy 7 overnight . |
| 25 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 26 | C can , can I come back to , to , y y you 're about to go on to I think the riff-raff and about the revolution . |
| 27 | We did a lot of talking , of course , and then it was decided that we could possibly raise some money by going to the League of Friends , which we did , and they very generously provided well in fact the whole total is about five thousand pounds , of which three and a half thousands represents the computer , and we 're about to go live , as it were , in a week or two . |
| 28 | The film you 're about to see is the record of a remarkable experiment in blah blah blah … ’ ’ |
| 29 | Scotland may be out , but Hampden 's looking fit to grace the best of games , as you 're about to see . |
| 30 | ‘ Yeah , we 're about to move into a more British psychedelia kind of thing , ’ laughs Edgar . |