Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The topmost edge of the sun was about to dip beyond the North Water . |
| 2 | Always the boy was about to plunge over the precipice . |
| 3 | The 13-year-old singer was about to audition for the joint BBC-RTE television talent show Go For It when his larynx let him down . |
| 4 | ‘ And the Court was about to assemble for the procession to the Plain . |
| 5 | The accident happened just as the duo were about to turn into the hairpin before the pits straight on the Adelaide street circuit . |
| 6 | Holland gained few glimpses of goal after that , although Taffarel failed to hold a hard low centre from Berghuis eight minutes before half-time and was fortunate that no Dutchman was around to pounce on the loose ball . |
| 7 | The wolf was about to descend on the little pigs . |
| 8 | Sensing that the old woman was about to rise from the bench , the cat jumped from her lap and stood by her side . |
| 9 | Ace was about to shut off the power , abandon the speeder and enter the smoking blackness of the.building , when she heard Daak 's voice . |
| 10 | Loretta was about to knock on the window and ask for further directions , when she shrugged and gave up . |
| 11 | I arrived at Salisbury Cathedral , just as the bride was about to go up the aisle . |
| 12 | It was about sex — not about sexual politics — but another show was about to go on the road , and Oz had got there first . |
| 13 | For at seven o'clock in the morning of 20 August in that year , the inscription has it , just as the citadel was about to fall to the besiegers , a white cross was seen in the sky ‘ above and to the right of the town ’ , which then became a crucifix whose crown turned encouragingly ( for the French ) into a royal fleur-de-lis . |
| 14 | Their source of money was about to disappear over the horizon . |
| 15 | Before this game we were told that this was the poorest Irish team in memory , that Irish rugby was in the doldrums and that the swashbuckling French were about to turn on the after-burners and skyrocket into the stratosphere . |
| 16 | Brazil had only five cases of infection but the real fear was that cholera was about to spread from the Peruvian into the Brazilian Amazonian river system . |