Example sentences of "about [to-vb] [adv prt] into the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was about to swivel round into the hall when he heard the sound of a car starting up outside the house . |
| 2 | The photographer and his wife Jane had been about to go through into the concert hall when Leeson saw Lowell standing on his own . |
| 3 | It was late in the afternoon when he realised that he had eaten nothing since breakfast , and he was about to go out into the town in search of a restaurant when the telephone rang . |
| 4 | He looked amazing , like Tarzan out of an old film , about to leap up into the tree-creeper . |
| 5 | As she was about to wriggle back into the room , the faint scent of the climbing rose came to her nostrils , and she sniffed it appreciatively , then paused , remembering the legend . |