Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv prt] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not about to dismiss the poor as part of a force for change , but there is a great deal more to it than organizing the poor to help themselves . |
| 2 | But just in case , I am not about to tempt the Grim Reaper by announcing that I am ready for him . |
| 3 | My boyfriend has just asked me to marry him and we are just about to break the good news to our families . |
| 4 | Yeah , they 're better off paying the normal rates |
| 5 | I am now about to mix the two together . |
| 6 | But if you 're an individual or small business buyer , then you 'll probably be better off taking the following steps to make sure purchasing your computer is a painless as possible . |
| 7 | However , this is the 3-inch drive peculiar to Amstrad products , and you would be better off paying the extra £35 for a discount Atari ST . |
| 8 | I , I 've bought you back the whip and I 'm just about to start the other one , so hang on to it at the moment , cos I do n't like too many books around that I 've borrowed , I 've got two . |
| 9 | I 'm also about to send the final chapters of a book on the subject off to my publishers . |
| 10 | Having regaled the population of Frome with ‘ Hamlet ’ , ‘ Romeo and Juliet ’ , ‘ School for Scandal ’ and a few other evergreens , they were soon off to take the same dose of culture to Shepton Mallet and Wells . |
| 11 | Not for nothing did smiling Irish eyes make the fortunes of the bohemian hacks who were just about to create the modern popular music business in the cities of the United States . |
| 12 | Winkelmann was just about to publish the first book to use the word art history in its title , This book on the history of Classical Art is seen as a milestone in the history of art history . |
| 13 | ‘ I was just about to ask the same of you , ’ he countered promptly . |
| 14 | This pendulum visualisation helped me considerably at the point where I was just about to master the hovering stage . |
| 15 | She was just about to rattle the huge gates in fury when there was a clunk and the gates whirred open . |
| 16 | When less than a year later she topped the bill with Jason at a Children 's Royal Variety show at the Dominion Theatre she was not about to make the same error of judgement . |
| 17 | ‘ One was always about to get the serious , definitive job . ’ |
| 18 | She was n't about to become the latest victim in a long line to fall under his spell . |