1- We were about to start, when it began to rain.

2- They were about to leave when I arrived there.

3- You were about to dump her flat out, weren't you?

4- She thought they were about to fly out through the open window.

5- The climbers gazed up at the forbidding face of the cliff they were about to climb.

6- The day before we were about to leave, we went out to a restaurant called Clancy's for dinner.

7- For a while we suppressed those feelings that showed we were about to fall in love, Karin recalls.

8- All the long hours in the gym were about to pay off and we were about to see what we were made of.

9- It looked ominously like we were about to repeat the earlier scenario.

10- At last, when they were about to come to blows , old Faustulus stepped between them.

11- They were about to come to blows.

12- They were about to be down on her when she came into the office.



13- They were about to bring off an even bigger coup.

14- Just as we were about to reach ecstatic heights.

15- The ship went under just minutes after the last passenger had been rescued.(30) They were about to lynch him when reinforcements from the army burst into the room and rescued him.

16- We didn't have the slightest inkling of the dramatic news we were about to hear.

17- Dramatic events were about to unfold.

18- The child's mouth twitched as if she were about to cry.

19- It was also a sign that the days of love-ins were about to change radically.

20- At last, when they were about to come to blows , old Faustulus stepped between them.

21- They were about to bring off an even bigger coup.

22- Claire looked as if she were about to burst into tears .

23- His pants were about to catch fire.

24- We were about to begin our second bombing run when there was a colossal explosion in battleship row.

25- The Democrats had swept the fall elections and were about to take control of the Senate.

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