Example sentences of "[was/were] about [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irritated , she looked away and was about to tackle him about the apartment when her eyes fell on a party of very young children in fairy-tale costumes being shepherded past Quadri 's caffè by doting parents and grandparents . |
| 2 | When he was satisfied no fresh threat was about to manifest itself from the darkness , he moved off back the way he had come , retracing his steps until he reached the shallow stream he had leapt a short time before . |
| 3 | Juliet had an awful suspicion that she was about to strike her with the plastic colander , and she stepped back . |
| 4 | Like when a drunken Richard Burton nodded off in the middle of a question ; the time Warren Beatty kept him waiting for an hour-and-a-half … and the day Robert Raging Bull De Niro looked as if he was about to punch him on the nose . |
| 5 | So Elizabeth was about to get her onto the to carry her out , she said nice and gently and picked her up and taken her outside ! |
| 6 | I know you 'll understand when I say my husband 's a one for the usquebaugh , I was about to correct him with the pressure-cooker once but I remembered my Victorian values just in time . |