Example sentences of "was [adv prt] leave the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she was about to leave the building she exchanged greetings with the portiera who handed her a letter which had arrived earlier the same day . |
| 2 | He was about to leave the foundry and continue his journey when an apprentice came rushing in with the loveliest girl he had seen in a long while , and his heart seemed to stop . |
| 3 | ‘ I had ordered sandwiches by phone two minutes earlier and was about to leave the building to pick them up . |
| 4 | Morton said the Princess 's astrologer , Penny Thornton of TODAY , revealed to him recently that she believed Diana was about to leave the Royal Family then . |
| 5 | She was thinking about a telephone call which she had answered just as she was about to leave the house . |
| 6 | Thornburgh , who was about to leave the government in order to contest a Senate vacancy , insisted that he was concerned only with the jurisdiction of federal judges , and not with the rights or wrongs of the abortion issue . |
| 7 | She was about to leave the house when the telephone rang . |
| 8 | Loretta finished dressing and was about to leave the room when she caught sight of the unmade bed . |
| 9 | As he was about to leave the little office he turned back . |
| 10 | Indeed , had you seen Ken white paper statement on television that night , you would see me sitting in the audience , smiling gently at the thought that I was about to leave the N H S. |
| 11 | Thinking Senor Gomorro was about to leave the country without returning to Suffolk they got in touch with colleagues in Oxfordshire . |
| 12 | But as the Portadown man was about to leave the jail he was told that his mother had died and ordered back to his cell . |
| 13 | He said Alan Steadman , 27 , came up behind Mr Foster as he was about to leave the town hall in Farnworth , Greater Manchester , and shot him in the back of the head with a stolen Colt .45 . |