Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My report on this tour concluded with the words : ‘ I shall be grateful for any suggestions as to how this Department may co-operate in helping to meet the desperately urgent situation that is about to develop in the Delta villages . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Also , now that the Council is well settled in its new headquarters at South Gyle and is about to embark on the implementation of Sport 2000 , the strategy designed to take sport in Scotland into the 21st Century , I believe it is a good time to hand over to someone new . ’ |
| 3 | That book of his has been finished some time , by the way , and is about to appear in the bookshops . |
| 4 | She turned away and was about to swing into the jeep when he strode forward and barred her way with the racket across the open doorway . |
| 5 | Lewis had backed the car a few feet down the ramp and was about to turn towards the Cherwell Arms when he heard his master 's voice — a single hissed and incredulous blasphemy : |
| 6 | and was about to turn off the gas jets when her father appeared in the doorway . |
| 7 | He raised his fist and was about to hammer on the door when he heard sounds . |
| 8 | Sukey had reached the window in her pacing and was about to start on the return journey . |
| 9 | I left the car outside the farm and was about to walk between the walls when I paused and stared at a cow in the field on the other side of the road . |
| 10 | The boy picked up the knife and was about to cut into the cake when he stopped . |