Example sentences of "i be [adv prt] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are the Royal Lines of Ireland , and I am about to release the bewitchment , and I shall take them out of here , and together we will rout Medoc . |
| 2 | I 'm about to call the police ’ ? |
| 3 | Ah , hands always go up when I 'm about to finish the programme and you 've been so |
| 4 | I 'm about to put the chicken in , so you can have some before we go . |
| 5 | I 'm about to commence the brain surgery . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm about to sell the house … |
| 7 | I 'm off to watch the Battle . |
| 8 | " Actually , I 'm off to join the search party . |
| 9 | I 'm off to haunt the Parkhead trophy room . |
| 10 | I 'm off to get the lorry then . |
| 11 | I wondered if he thought Dana and I were about to tie the knot , or whether he was thinking of us individually — the latter , I think , because he had warned me against marriage once or twice before when I had shown what he regarded as too much interest in a woman friend . |
| 12 | I sat there a long time , bored , with a cold bottom , and I was about to open the pub door to tell him I was going home when I saw the organ grinder trundling his barrel-organ down the street . |
| 13 | Christ , I was about to do the Technicolor Yawn all over this girl 's jacket , through the tears and rusting her zips and filling her pockets , and probably send Jamie flying across the room into the beer-crates under the speaker stacks with the first awful heave , and here were these two trading absurd biker fantasies . |
| 14 | Indeed , had you seen Ken white paper statement on television that night , you would see me sitting in the audience , smiling gently at the thought that I was about to leave the N H S. |
| 15 | I was about to take the line and hook off him and tie the knot , when my rod-tip dipped . |
| 16 | I was about to telephone the police . |
| 17 | Checks with a continuity tester have invariably revealed that I was about to connect the switch incorrectly . |