Example sentences of "was about [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irritated , she looked away and was about to tackle him about the apartment when her eyes fell on a party of very young children in fairy-tale costumes being shepherded past Quadri 's caffè by doting parents and grandparents . |
| 2 | Short was about to say something about Frank Connor , but thought better of it . |
| 3 | Later on , when Baxter was about to say something in his defence , Jeffries interrupted him . |
| 4 | Mona still had them but was about to return them to Maureen . |
| 5 | When he was satisfied no fresh threat was about to manifest itself from the darkness , he moved off back the way he had come , retracing his steps until he reached the shallow stream he had leapt a short time before . |
| 6 | He was about to put it in his pocket when Nora said , ‘ Open the back . ’ |
| 7 | Juliet had an awful suspicion that she was about to strike her with the plastic colander , and she stepped back . |
| 8 | Like when a drunken Richard Burton nodded off in the middle of a question ; the time Warren Beatty kept him waiting for an hour-and-a-half … and the day Robert Raging Bull De Niro looked as if he was about to punch him on the nose . |
| 9 | Mr Bodenland was about to tell me of some tremendous thing that cheered him recently ! ’ |
| 10 | She was about to tell him to be careful , but then she remembered how he had laughed at the idea that Gazzer could be dangerous , so she kept her mouth shut . |
| 11 | ‘ That will be his daughter , Felicity , I was about to tell you about her , do n't keep interrupting , ’ said Aunt Lou sternly . |
| 12 | The Cold War was reaching a point where , having reactivated the Anglo-American relationship , it was about to expose it to new strains and tensions . |
| 13 | So Elizabeth was about to get her onto the to carry her out , she said nice and gently and picked her up and taken her outside ! |
| 14 | At eight o'clock in the evening of 17 August 1759 the single frigate which Boscawen had left to watch the Straits arrived in Gibraltar harbour with the alarming news that the enemy was about to escape them after all . |
| 15 | I know you 'll understand when I say my husband 's a one for the usquebaugh , I was about to correct him with the pressure-cooker once but I remembered my Victorian values just in time . |
| 16 | In the morning Alix was about to apply herself to a file of Home Office statistics when the phone rang . |
| 17 | I was about to throw it at one of the maids as she passed beneath me with a tray of glasses , but just then Claire came out of the reception room . |