Example sentences of "[be] about [to-vb] into the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boys were about to go into the building again after their first successful looting when suddenly somebody shouted : ‘ I Tedeschi , i Tedeschi arrivano ! ’ |
| 2 | The accident happened just as the duo were about to turn into the hairpin before the pits straight on the Adelaide street circuit . |
| 3 | Benjamin gripped my wrist and nodded but , just as we were about to step into the boat , he clapped his hands together . |
| 4 | Right , well I suppose the big sporting story of the evening has to be the boxing ; George Forman , who 's forty-one is about to go into the ring in er London 's Docklands arena . |
| 5 | She turned away and was about to swing into the jeep when he strode forward and barred her way with the racket across the open doorway . |
| 6 | Perhaps Hambury was about to turn into the place Biff had originally described to them back at the workhouse . |
| 7 | Then , just as she was about to step into the water , Marie-Angèle's's voice rose in a shrill whisper at the door . |
| 8 | He was about to disappear into the tangle of tubes and ducts . |
| 9 | The boy picked up the knife and was about to cut into the cake when he stopped . |
| 10 | The villagers close to it believed that the Dark Ireland was about to ride into the world , but only Medoc rode out , astride a coal-black horse , with Maeve thrown across the saddle before him . |