Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv prt] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am about to make the first incision . |
| 2 | I , I was about to ask the same thing , yeah . |
| 3 | I was about to say the magic belt . |
| 4 | ‘ I was about to say the same to you . |
| 5 | I was about to remind the hon. Gentleman that the present Government have been in office for the past 13 years and therefore must accept a great deal of responsibility . |
| 6 | I felt that I was about to enter the real world , a world of miracle and meaning . |
| 7 | I was about to enter the Sixth form at the outbreak of war . |
| 8 | I was about to contact the American lawyer acting for the defendants , Mr William Rogers ( later to become famous as Secretary of State under Nixon ) , when the telephone rang and it was the New York Times enquiring when I was going to meet him . |
| 9 | A currency which gradually adjusts up or down over a period of time , depending on the intrinsic strength of the economy which supports it , is much less likely to attract the eye of the speculator than one which is about to burst the artificial dam which has been built around it . |
| 10 | This means that nobody is around to use the local amenities including shops , taxi services , libraries and the like . |
| 11 | Lying within a mile of one of the leading financial centres of the modern capitalist economy which was about to reap the economic benefits flowing from the deregulation of the domestic financial market and the internationalisation of world financial markets in the 1980s ( Parkinson and Evans , 1990 ) , London Docklands was ripe for development . |
| 12 | And it wo n't just be the pilots who are out to make the best landings . |
| 13 | The idea is to produce a smooth zig-zag stitch with the sewing machine which does not catch the knitting in the machine foot , does not pucker , stops the cut edge from fraying and gives confidence to those who are about to cut the knitted fabric for the first time . |
| 14 | All I remember thinking of as I pushed the trolley and looked at the red face and eyebrows was , My friend , you are about to take the longest journey a man ever takes in this life . |
| 15 | Welcome to these two newcomers but meanwhile , ‘ old hand ’ Diane Bennett tackles the decision of buying a computer for the knitting machine , so do n't miss Oh Brother if you are about to do the same . |
| 16 | ‘ Ah , yes , of course , the live-in nanny to look after her while you 're out enjoying the high life . ’ |
| 17 | Suppose you 're about to make the last payment on your mortgage . |
| 18 | At one extreme , there might be the virtual monoculture of the new agricultural areas , imposed by their orientation towards a remote world market , and intensified , if not created , by the characteristic mechanism of foreign merchant firms in the great port cities which controlled this export trade — the traditional Greeks who ran the Russian corn trade through Odessa , the Bunges and Borns from Hamburg who were about to fulfil the same function for the River Plate countries from Buenos Aires and Montevideo . |
| 19 | In case you 're not fluent in Japanese , Katharine Over is telling her friend Lucy that she 's about to join the Prime Minister on a diplomatic mission . |
| 20 | After spending 10 days in hospital she was back to watch the next home game , but from a safe distance . |
| 21 | She was about to ask the nearest of the women when she suddenly realised fully what had happened . |
| 22 | She was about to do the same with the contents of another file when something made her pause , hair prickling at the back of her head . |
| 23 | In the late Thirties the Baroness Hila Rebay was busy looking for a name for the new art museum her mentor Solomon R. Guggenheim was about to found and of which she was about to become the first director . |
| 24 | As she was about to pass the dark shape , something seemed to attach her skirt to the ground , and she had to stop . |
| 25 | In a moment we are about to leave the leisured and leisurely world of the eighteenth-century gentlemen and hurtle through the mechanical and material world of nineteenth-century England , where the revolutionary ideas of the aristocratic philosophers will become embodied in the social , political and economic structures of industrial Europe . |
| 26 | We 're off to join the Provisional Government … in Botany Bay , eh ? ’ the voice behind him laughed dryly . |
| 27 | We 're about to begin the long hike out to the rim . |
| 28 | We had ample occupation watching the play of the clouds over the sides of the hills , and the bits of rugged moor and moss and flowing stream that enlivened the way ; but at a turning within some three miles of the inn of Kinlochewe , as we were about to pass the east-going mail gig with its complement of travellers , our driver jerked the horses into a ditch , which upset our machine and broke one of the springs . |
| 29 | Thank You'-You are about to deflate the small plastic paddling pool in the garden in which no infant has paddled for a month until you realise that it is now full of strange vegetation and even stranger swimming insects and you decide to keep it as a nature reserve . |
| 30 | When actors say they want to be like Cary Grant , it 's usually a sign they 're about to make the worst movie of their career . |