Example sentences of "[was/were] about to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got out of bed and walked across to Jackie as if he were about to say something . |
| 2 | ‘ And you were about to say , lass , he 's no friend of yours . |
| 3 | Er er it 's ac It occurred to me that what what you were about to say cos Whit |
| 4 | Sarah seemed as if she were about to say something else , then thought better of it . |
| 5 | Miss Agnew , you were about to say ? ’ |
| 6 | Is that what you were about to say , Aurora ? |
| 7 | I thought you would g , oh I thought you were about to say I 've decided I 'm not coming . |
| 8 | I was about to say ballet was spasmo , but I stopped myself . |
| 9 | But I would hope to reinscribe all of this knowledge within Gide 's narratives of sexual liberation without surrendering or denying their affirmations — I was about to say tenderness — and to do that in part by acknowledging that it is a knowledge implicit in or enabled by Gide 's own transgressive crossing of some forbidden boundaries . |
| 10 | Besides , those old Junker — ’ she was about to say all those Junker but in deference to Omi did not — ‘ they did n't all look nice . |
| 11 | Herr Nordern gave a placatory smile and was about to say , completely untruthfully , that he — they — understood , when , to his horror , Bodo butted in again . |
| 12 | The truth he got , but , when he rose to his feet at the splendid Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre to declare the summit open , no more than a few people present had any inkling of what he was about to say . |
| 13 | He was about to say ‘ game to the last ’ but thought again . |
| 14 | Stanley was about to say ‘ no ’ , when Mary Ann intervened : |
| 15 | Mungo was about to say ‘ yes ’ , when there was a bellow from the direction of the pub . |
| 16 | It was vital that they did not think he had actually seen what he was about to say Robert had seen when the electric light flooded the converted attic . |
| 17 | He looked as if he was about to say more when someone shouted his name . |
| 18 | Letter to the Editor : As I was about to say … |
| 19 | Later on , when Baxter was about to say something in his defence , Jeffries interrupted him . |
| 20 | She was about to say something further when the telephone rang . |
| 21 | Robyn was about to say , ‘ The Government , ’ when she saw the trap : Wilcox would find it easy enough to argue that the Government had not been troubled by the strike . |
| 22 | He was about to say something when Irina went on , ‘ You remember the sheep . ’ |
| 23 | This could be — ’ he was about to say ‘ terribly ’ and held back — ‘ quite important . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I was about to say , ’ Horowitz continued , ‘ that Tweed must have assumed something like this would happen . ’ |
| 25 | Again it seemed as if she was about to say something but changed her mind . |
| 26 | Agnes again stopped herself from yelling , ‘ How do I know ! ’ and she was about to say , ‘ You should have thought about this before , ’ but this would have been a stupid reply , for when that urge was tearing at your body and there was a way of getting rid of it , would one stop to think ? |
| 27 | Just as I was about to say it again , the Canadian spoke . |
| 28 | Billy looked annoyed and was about to say something when Knocker came back with their two pints of cider , looking more like tea cups in his massive fists . |
| 29 | Rab was about to say , the barman , in the fucking monkey house , but Winnie cut him off : ‘ We 'll be pleased tae pay the damage , ’ she said . |
| 30 | Short was about to say something about Frank Connor , but thought better of it . |