Example sentences of "about [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps there was someone behind me who was just about to hit me over the head . |
| 2 | Her outstretched hand disturbed a fragment of loose rock , sending it tumbling over the precipice ; for one hideous moment she fancied the entire ledge was on the move and about to hurl her into the chasm . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Stupid , crazy female , ’ was all he said as he set about bandaging it with the meagre contents of the first-aid box . |
| 6 | It 's a very simple matter and it it , there 's no so even if the jury are about to hear it from the witness . |
| 7 | I was just about to hop it down the stairs — but my feet turned back . |
| 8 | Though Lugard later lost the simple faith of his childhood , he never lost the evangelical habit of spiritual self-scrutiny which had been so pronounced in him as a boy that his mother at one time feared that ‘ possibly ( though now in perfect health ) our Father may be about to remove him to the heavenly garner ’ . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | But after Habitat set about educating them to the advantages of the idea , the Americans adopted it with tremendous enthusiasm . |
| 11 | In Parliament , he was one of the young Conservative MPs who welcomed , from a position of strength as they thought , the accession of Labour into British political life , and set about educating it in the arts of responsible participation in the polity . |
| 12 | I was just about to ask him about the horse — and I never got another chance afterwards . |
| 13 | I was engrossed in these thoughts and just about to drip it on the top of my head as I had seen Sally do when , from nowhere , a hand knocked me to the floor , spilling the contents of the bottle . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Juliet had an awful suspicion that she was about to strike her with the plastic colander , and she stepped back . |