Example sentences of "be [adv prt] [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Green concerns may well be about to travel the same route . |
2 | Welcome to these two newcomers but meanwhile , ‘ old hand ’ Diane Bennett tackles the decision of buying a computer for the knitting machine , so do n't miss Oh Brother if you are about to do the same . |
3 | The extremely well-britched U2 are about to incur a few expenses as it would appear that they have half-inched some of the NME 's STUART BAILIE 's bon-mots . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | The five-strong crew thought they were about to suffer the same disaster that struck another British Airways flight in June 1990 . |
6 | Fat , he believes , is about to follow the same trend . |
7 | ‘ I was about to say the same to you . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | The Communists were busily isolating themselves from the labour movement ; the Independent Labour Party was about to do the same . |
11 | After a few polite words , Sophie was about to do the same when Giles said , ‘ Do n't go . |
12 | I , I was about to ask the same thing , yeah . |