Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] about [to-vb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I was about to ask the same thing , yeah . |
| 2 | ‘ I was about to say the same to you . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The five-strong crew thought they were about to suffer the same disaster that struck another British Airways flight in June 1990 . |
| 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 . |