Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [to-vb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one extreme , there might be the virtual monoculture of the new agricultural areas , imposed by their orientation towards a remote world market , and intensified , if not created , by the characteristic mechanism of foreign merchant firms in the great port cities which controlled this export trade — the traditional Greeks who ran the Russian corn trade through Odessa , the Bunges and Borns from Hamburg who were about to fulfil the same function for the River Plate countries from Buenos Aires and Montevideo . |
| 2 | The five-strong crew thought they were about to suffer the same disaster that struck another British Airways flight in June 1990 . |
| 3 | ‘ I was about to say the same to you . |
| 4 | She was about to do the same with the contents of another file when something made her pause , hair prickling at the back of her head . |
| 5 | I was convinced he was about to do the same to me , when he suddenly appeared to notice the tent for the first time , shied away and crashed off into the trees . |
| 6 | The Communists were busily isolating themselves from the labour movement ; the Independent Labour Party was about to do the same . |
| 7 | After a few polite words , Sophie was about to do the same when Giles said , ‘ Do n't go . |
| 8 | I , I was about to ask the same thing , yeah . |