Example sentences of "about [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're about to invest in a new set of cases , bear these points in mind . |
| 2 | Denis screamed as Cohen was about to go into a renewed bout of laughter . |
| 3 | We 're in a transmat booth , and we 're about to go on an instant journey . ’ |
| 4 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 5 | Sturt was about to proceed upon a new expedition into the interior of Australia I beg to send for your perusal a Letter I have lately received from him and from which you will perceive that he has written to Lord Stanley ; as I know no one better fitted for such a purpose than this enterprising and persevering Gentleman I do hope the Government may be disposed to second his views ; perhaps , your Lordship , could obtain and favour me with some information on the subject ; from the manner in which you referred to him in your Letter I am led to believe that some arrangement has already been made ; pray say if such be the case . |
| 6 | Salt had recovered from her first surprise and was about to launch into a longer attack . |
| 7 | Yet sterling 's stable performance , another slight easing of money market rates , rampant rumours of a favourable opinion poll and a firm performance among government issues all converged to tempt in the odd overseas bargain hunter , helping dealers convince themselves that the world is not about to come to an abrupt halt after all . |
| 8 | She was reminded of a remark in Tristram 's last letter to Beatrix — ‘ Such a foolish conceit , in both senses , eh ? ’ — and she wondered if she was about to succumb to a similar temptation . |
| 9 | After modernising and its network , BT is about to benefit from a rapid fall-off in investment and staffing costs . |
| 10 | He was unhorsed , helpless and about to perish as a Federal trooper rode at him , sword raised . |
| 11 | She was about to veer in a different direction when she felt an arm like steel round her waist . |
| 12 | Also , cassettes are about to grow into an important part of the market . |
| 13 | He was about to embark on a new life in New York with the most boring woman in Britain . |
| 14 | Each time he was about to embark on a new affair , he bought Jessica an expensive present — as if that made the whole thing right . |
| 15 | BELFAST Rock/Blues musician Brian Scott is about to embark on a European tour in support of his new album ‘ Deliverance ’ , which will include twelve Irish dates . |
| 16 | You 're heartlessly manipulating your mother into believing that we 're about to embark on a long and happy marriage , and you 're doing it by manipulating me . |
| 17 | Lewis was about to embark on a three-stranded career . |
| 18 | He bought some of EH Shepherd 's original sketches for The Wind in the Willows , and decided Mole had to be about to embark on a big adventure . |
| 19 | The European Community is about to embark on an ambitious programme of research within the field of biotechnology and genetic diversity , within which plant taxonomic information systems are to play a part by linking taxonomic , molecular and genetic databases . |
| 20 | The talk , at least in the home camp , after Saturday 's match was of how Darlington are about to embark on an exciting rebirth . |
| 21 | The details are about to emerge in a new book , as Tim Hurst reports . |
| 22 | At our interview at the Royal Overseas League she was about to leave for a pit-stop author 's tour , with an immensely heavy bag containing a laptop computer on which she fires off requests and thank-you letters : to American Secretary of State James Baker for his introduction to President Mobutu , to the King of Spain for agreeing to host a fundraising dinner for a chimp sanctuary in Spain . |
| 23 | ( When all the women were reading Mrs Henry Wood , and Marie Corelli was about to burst upon a waiting world . ) |
| 24 | THE search is about to start for a new Ulster Branch secretary . |
| 25 | Work was about to start on a new street through to Clerkenwell Green and excavations were under way to raise the level of the road by several feet . |
| 26 | Work is about to start on a new building that will link two factory units , presently separated by a gap . |
| 27 | He was about to experiment with a drastic remedy — not only taking his own advice but overriding that ‘ occasionally ’ by cohabiting with a prostitute as a common law wife . |
| 28 | Mujtaba should have been caught at slip by Gooch when only 17 , Munton the suffering bowler , and the skipper , now into double figures with international catching errors this year , surely about to relaunch as a mid-off . |
| 29 | He grabbed her arm as she was about to knock on a frosted-glass door halfway down the corridor . |
| 30 | She rang again and was about to ring for a third time when the door was pulled abruptly open . |