Example sentences of "were [adv prt] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were about to go through to the back-kitchen when the door behind the bar opened , and Connor came out with a large , pink-faced gentleman . |
| 2 | Despite the early hour , the eunuchs were all dressed and painted as if they were about to go out to a late-night nautch . |
| 3 | She looked as if she were about to set off for a provincial cocktail party , an office party of female executives . |
| 4 | Well , it happened that Maureen and Aubrey were about to set off on a round-Britain motoring holiday . |
| 5 | Angel and Patricio were about to ride on to the field . |
| 6 | Here 's what I did : just at the moment the tears were about to gush out over the waterproof liner , taking the soft lenses in a Niagara-like descent towards the jawbone , I looked at a poster or a newspaper and thought about what the words meant . |
| 7 | Two bespectacled scientists , doing an early season wasp count , were about to head back to the far end of the lake with their analyses of how often the summer visitors would be stung that year . |