Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] about [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one time Mayor of Arden , father of the bruised Grace ( ‘ Had it been Paddy Ashdown I would n't have minded one little bit ’ ) , had checked in at the desk and was about to carry his overnight bag up to his room when he noticed her through the glass door of an adjoining room . |
| 2 | Old Trafford boss Alex Ferguson withdrew Ince from the England squad after the game and was about to order his 24-year-old star to have three days ’ rest when there was the sudden turn-around . |
| 3 | He looked at her and was about to say something more . |
| 4 | I had once taken hold of a piece of rock , and was about to trust my whole weight upon , it , when it loosened from its bed , and I should have been sent headlong to the bottom had I not instinctively snatched hold of a tuft of grass , which grew close by it , and was so firm as to save me . |
| 5 | Urquhart widened his eyes slightly , whether as a gesture of surprise or warning — since the waiter came up behind her just then and was about to remove their dirty plates — she could not be sure . |