Example sentences of "[adv] about [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's foolish of him to have it when we 're all about to go into production and we 're so tired . ’ |
| 2 | Just about to explode with fury , she suddenly caught the oddly constrained , heavy note of tension in his voice . |
| 3 | I 'm just about to go to bed and I thought I 'd ring and see how things are with you . ’ |
| 4 | So when , late that night as I was just about to go to bed , I heard a discreet knock at the door , I was not amazed to find a waiter in a claw-hammer coat pulling a heavily laden food trolley into my room . |
| 5 | She sits there she goes and she stops and you 're just about to go to sleep and she goes so loud ! |
| 6 | The Prince Charles was just about to anchor in Tongue Bay , midway along the northern coast of Scotland , on 25 March 1746 when the 24-gun Sheerness , which far outclassed her , appeared and opened fire . |
| 7 | Do n't worry , he 's not about to escape with film concealed about his person . |
| 8 | Framed by a swimming pool and women with pointed breasts , Elvis sneered lustily and was clearly about to burst into song . |