Example sentences of "she was [adv] [to-vb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At our interview at the Royal Overseas League she was about to leave for a pit-stop author 's tour , with an immensely heavy bag containing a laptop computer on which she fires off requests and thank-you letters : to American Secretary of State James Baker for his introduction to President Mobutu , to the King of Spain for agreeing to host a fundraising dinner for a chimp sanctuary in Spain . |
| 2 | She was about to veer in a different direction when she felt an arm like steel round her waist . |
| 3 | She was reminded of a remark in Tristram 's last letter to Beatrix — ‘ Such a foolish conceit , in both senses , eh ? ’ — and she wondered if she was about to succumb to a similar temptation . |
| 4 | And she had climbed between the sheets without a murmur , another circumstance which had convinced her nurse that she was about to succumb to a chill . |
| 5 | He grabbed her arm as she was about to knock on a frosted-glass door halfway down the corridor . |
| 6 | Amanda said she loved the live show , that Sandra was n't particularly attractive but had a great body and showed what good hair and good clothes could do , and then , in an off-hand comment that she probably regretted almost immediately , declared that if she was ever to sleep with a woman , it would be Sandra . |