Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were about to go through to the back-kitchen when the door behind the bar opened , and Connor came out with a large , pink-faced gentleman . |
| 2 | Despite the early hour , the eunuchs were all dressed and painted as if they were about to go out to a late-night nautch . |
| 3 | She looked as if she were about to set off for a provincial cocktail party , an office party of female executives . |
| 4 | Well , it happened that Maureen and Aubrey were about to set off on a round-Britain motoring holiday . |
| 5 | Angel and Patricio were about to ride on to the field . |
| 6 | Here 's what I did : just at the moment the tears were about to gush out over the waterproof liner , taking the soft lenses in a Niagara-like descent towards the jawbone , I looked at a poster or a newspaper and thought about what the words meant . |
| 7 | Two bespectacled scientists , doing an early season wasp count , were about to head back to the far end of the lake with their analyses of how often the summer visitors would be stung that year . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Henry was about to move out of a place in Tite Street . |
| 10 | A new Frankenstein monster was about to lurch on to the front pages of the tabloids — the proto-fascist skinhead , scourge of the immigrant and the helpless OAP . |
| 11 | Carew was about to reach down for the attaché case resting against the leg of the chair when Harrison leaned forward towards him , his face contorted with bitterness and dislike . |
| 12 | It swung open as he was about to reach out for the handle . |
| 13 | ‘ Cool off , Ruth , ’ he ordered sharply and was about to slam out of the room when her speech came back in a rush and furiously she hit out with her pièce de résistance . |
| 14 | He was about to swivel round into the hall when he heard the sound of a car starting up outside the house . |
| 15 | Fresh from the indulgence of driving the fastest and most powerful Jaguar saloon ever built over several hundred kilometres of demanding roads , I was about to set off on a journey that would take me from one end of Europe to the other . |
| 16 | Sweet Molly , who he was about to take out for the day and seduce if he got the chance . |
| 17 | I was about to go back to the hotel when a pool attendant gestured to me and whispered that he urgently needed to change Iraqi dinars into dollars . |
| 18 | He was about to go back to the company when he realised that in the middle of the town was a house where an old man lived , exactly where the company were planning to build their new station ; and the old man was refusing to sell . " |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Stepping up onto the landing , he was about to walk over to the door when a large hand dropped onto his shoulder . |
| 21 | As she was about to walk out of the office , the telephone rang . |
| 22 | Being in no mood for civilities , I was about to walk by with a brief ‘ Afternoon ’ when he stopped . |
| 23 | It looked very probable that the ball was not going to be the only thing to rise in the air — Mafouz himself , Robert felt , was about to climb up like a helicopter , clear of the grass , and hover over Wimbledon . |
| 24 | Somewhere across the bay of Palma a fiesta was about to break out with the usual volley of deafening rockets to launch it on its way . |
| 25 | He was about to stand up to the policeman when Duncan spoke . |
| 26 | So she ran down through the trees and caught up with the old woman just as she was about to start off across the marsh . |