Example sentences of "they [be] about [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prison governor tells them they are about to be shot and offers them the choice of dying like men or wearing blindfolds . |
| 2 | ‘ Attention was called to the Company 's payment of £50 per annum to the Vicar of Stantonbury for managing these schools , seeing that they are about to be handed over to a School Board and it was agreed that the payment be continued as in respect of Sunday School management , but during the pleasure of the Board and to the present incumbent only ’ . |
| 3 | VILLAGERS in Peru are living in terror that they are about to be haunted by a vampire … from Blackburn . |
| 4 | Auditions are quite unreal — I mean , how can anyone show what they are about by coming into a room and doing the opening speech of a play ? |
| 5 | ‘ They 're about to throw-in . |
| 6 | ‘ I had to get one , ’ he explained , ‘ because they 're about to be made illegal . ’ |
| 7 | This is how these men make themselves into all those freak things where muscles bulge all over the place , they look as if they 're about to , I 'm not quite sure , they always remind of erm those balloons , you know , that pop off beach balls , they look a bit like that . |
| 8 | We understand they 're about to or shortly become grandparents . |
| 9 | ‘ I had to get one , ’ he explained , ‘ because they 're about to be made illegal . ’ |
| 10 | For decades his complete diaries have been hidden in K-G-B files in Moscow — now they 're about to be serialised in the Sunday Times . |
| 11 | ‘ They were about to , but at this point the man , seeing what had happened , panicked and made a run for it himself on foot . |
| 12 | If the crowd anticipate passé renditions of classic ME songs like ‘ I Melt With You ’ they were about to be disillusioned . |
| 13 | And they were about to trip over the first foot … |
| 14 | Thucydides , an acute social historian when he wants to be , remarks that ‘ most of the dealings between the Spartans and their helots were of a precautionary character ’ ( iv.80 ) , and tells a suitably laconic story of two thousand specially manly helots who were garlanded and led round the temples as if they were about to be given their freedom ; they were never seen again and nobody knew what happened to them . |
| 15 | They took their seats on canvas chairs which were placed side by side on the strip of red tiling , as if they were about to be photographed or to review a marching column . |
| 16 | Detectives believe they were about to be shipped to the manufacturing base in a spare room of the house in Highgate . |
| 17 | It somehow seemed to be a cutting-off point , as if they were about to be flown away from any contact with civilisation . |
| 18 | He held her close again , and as they were about to part she said , ‘ Charlie , ’ and he said , ‘ Yes ? ’ |
| 19 | They were about to be handed the photographic opportunity most tourists only dream of . |