| I had been about to close the door, but I stopped, afraid that the noise it would make would be disruptive. |
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| He was about to say something to her when the others realized it and knocked him on the head and dragged him away. |
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| They know when the red mist is about to descend and can rein in their anger. |
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| The winner, Chana Suksabai, shown here looking as if he is about to barf, managed to woof down 10 crocodile eggs in 4 minutes. |
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| Armed raiders were caught red-handed yesterday as they were about to carry out a heist on a security van. |
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| We showed up at the barn right when they were about to begin milking the cows. |
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| The first major battle over public sector pensions could be about to begin. |
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| Nicol easily controlled the next two games, and seemed to be about to close out the match. |
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| And now Fizz is about to set tails wagging having been nominated for the Woman's Best Friend award in a canine competition. |
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| Because of that some companies who were about to sign deals decided to wait before making a final decision. |
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| The president's aircraft was about to land at Jacksonville Naval Air Station when the control tower ordered the pilot to abort his landing. |
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| The 30-year-old man was caught red-handed by residents as he was about to make off with a stolen motorcycle. |
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| The Government is about to close the door and stop all new referrals from receiving these drugs. |
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| Gavin is about to begin a music course at college and hopes to become a session musician when he graduates. |
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| The council is about to begin consultation with residents on the options for council tax. |
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| As the elevator doors were about to close, someone pushed the open button outside. |
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| They may be used to control symptoms in women who are close to the menopause for whom symptoms may soon be about to improve anyway. |
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| Armed robbers were caught red-handed yesterday as they were about to carry out a raid on a security van. |
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| I am about to try and persuade mum to take me to Sainsburys to change up all my billions of coppers for actual usable cash. |
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| Another Gawker link and I've had over 1,000 hits today, and right as we're about to possibly maybe finally get all wonky with redesign stuff. |
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| The man's face was red from anger and he was about to carry on his yelling fit, but Ali began a coughing fit. |
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| The five enemy wizards felt the magical energy in the air, and knew that they were about to confront a great power. |
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| I was about to turn and talk to Rachel but remembered that she was angry with me. |
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| Just as he was about to deliver his words of wisdom, a team-mate chucked a bucket of water over his head. |
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| Entering a small type of entrance, the ship was about to anchor when we heeled over for a brief instant. |
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| Mr Robinson then felt convinced that something serious was about to take place, and he took to his heels and ran for it. |
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| He was about to become engaged to a maiden named Luscinda, whom he had loved since childhood and who returned his feelings in kind. |
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| Her mother, Alice, is delighted to see her, but her father, Hank, is not about to kill the fatted calf. |
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| I was just about to walk out the front door of my office when our receptionist's cellphone rang. |
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| One of the most popular presidents in recent memory is about to commit a cardinal sin. |
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| And Rodney, a wine waiter at Woburn Abbey, feared she was about to end it because of his cheating. |
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| I'm about to take a week's annual leave starting next week so I'm going to be able to kick back and relax a little. |
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| To hear from the Government that their regiment is about to be scrapped is a kick in the teeth for the brave men and women of our armed services. |
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| Towards the end of the book he looks at what the future holds, based on programmes that have been funded and are about to start. |
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| Whatever denial she was about to say make died as that little comment took the wind out of her sails. |
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| I was about to throw a punch to the boy's stomach to wind him, when I suddenly felt it myself. |
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| The key was in the ignition and Jessie was about to pull out of the parking lot, when she stopped. |
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| Is the Scottish Conservative leader about to take the long cab journey into the political wilderness? |
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| He kissed me softly before he left and I was about to ream him a new one before I saw Jason standing at the foot of the stairs. |
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| We didn't speak the entire way home and I just know he was about to explode and ream me a new one. |
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| They had been going out for about eighteen months and were about to move in together. |
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| He says he and a friend were just about to go snorkeling when they noticed the tide had gone out much farther than usual. |
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| The clocks have gone back, it's getting colder and driving conditions are about to get a great deal tougher. |
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| From go to whoa, the compilation has something to prove, and isn't about to waste a track as it makes its case. |
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| In a city where anything goes and everything is possible, six strangers are about to be given the chance of a lifetime! |
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| Now he was forced into whoring himself to the system for the money because he was about to fall below the poverty line. |
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| Especially when they're dressed as if they're about to go whoring downtown after the movie lets out. |
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| Gus Lynch took on, most notably, a wholesomely off-kilter scoutmaster about to lead his charges to a presumably terrible summer camp. |
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| A few doors across, in the wholefood cafe, a father and his young son were about to tuck into their tofu burgers. |
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| They are probably about to start on their annual Whitsuntide walk around the district, to be followed by tea and games. |
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| The horsemen looking on with the keen anticipation of those about to be mightily entertained paid me the compliment of rapidly becoming bored. |
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| After a sleepless night, I managed to reach her in the morning and she confirmed that I was about to be sacked. |
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| As the officer was about to go after the cars, three more vehicles rounded the curve at a similar rate of speed. |
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| She was about to explain, when a high-pitched whistle from somewhere in the middle of the soldiers sounded. |
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| But at the moment the City's whisperers are asking whether the LSE is about to return to the bad old days when it was dogged by controversy. |
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| Words and titles are about to become very important as people figure out which one of Cheney's goons ratted her out. |
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| And when I was about to follow her, someone, or someTHING, I never wanted to see again appeared and blew a raspberry right in my face. |
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| There have been reports both in this country and Australia suggesting that we were about to pay a king's ransom. |
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| Owen was about to cross the room to comfort her when there was a knocking on the door. |
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| It was late in the night, and Jim was just about to drift off to sleep, when Ellen rolled over. |
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| He was about to dictate into his recorder about the progress of his work when his mobile phone rang. |
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| Astor was just about to reclaim his travelling bag and unpack when the phone began to ring. |
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| The former House majority leader's carefully constructed and fiercely defended redoubt of power seems about to go kablooey. |
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| Helen looked around us, making sure no one was following us or within hearing range of what she was about to say. |
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| No one seemed to realize he was a hero-to-be about to go on his first adventure and should have been greatly adulated. |
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| The Turks are rampaging across Asia, the first Crusaders are at the Empire's gates, and warfare is about to break out. |
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| Just that instant of anticipation, the realization of what was about to happen, was an adrenalized buzz. |
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| If anyone finds what I am about to say insightful or applicably useful in their own practice, it will serve the Dharma all the more. |
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| Just before they are about to pull a major swindle, Rockwell appears wearing an absurd Stetson tipped rakishly forward over his eyes. |
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| She was jumping for joy because she's about to become a granny for the first time. |
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| Just as he was about to break the lock off the carriage door, he was suddenly jumped from behind. |
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| This is about to lapse into various other tales but they are all somehow relevant, do not adjust your set. |
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| They set about to swiftly close the case and make an example of the alleged perpetrators, who were quickly railroaded to prison. |
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| You are about to enter one of the most joyous and happy periods of this year for your sign. |
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| After we'd exchanged numbers and addresses, Marty looked as though he was about to explode. |
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| And I had a stab of sheer jouissance because I knew what I was about to do. |
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| She lifted herself up to a sitting position, and pulled her face close to his, as if she was about to kiss him. |
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| It's Christmas, the joint of beef is on trial, and you are about to make the best gravy of your life. |
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| That afternoon, just as we were about to head in for the day, our spotter pilot radioed us the position of another shark. |
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| We were about to enter our sophomore year, and he still weighed the 100 pounds he always had. |
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| Your doctor can help you understand the changes you're about to go through as you start your chemotherapy or radiation treatment. |
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| There were Joe Schmoes like me representing a company that was about to develop its own platform. |
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| Finally, though, just as I was about to give the whole expedition up as a bad job, and head for Charing Cross, I found her. |
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| She was blinded by her tears and the smoke, so she couldn't see the burning timber above her that was about to fall. |
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| Harris and Gage take places along the goal line, looking very much like they are about to race each other in a sprint. |
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| He's about to replace a blade on the jigsaw when he hears someone shuffling up the gravel road. |
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| He could barely contain his glee and seemed about to break into a jig at any moment. |
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| Now, the bill is about to come due, and they're looking for ways to weasel out. |
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| He appears just as I'm about to start on a roasted jewfish with prawns, and offers a sturdy paw. |
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| I was about to knock on the door when I heard a snare hit, followed by a bass guitar, and an acoustic. |
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| Mrs. Peck saw him about to rush into their house and managed to waylay him for a moment. |
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| She was just about to start waxing poetic about it, when she was startled by Morgan appearing at her front door. |
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| She was about to say something but her quick eyes had caught the mass of women slowly stalking toward them. |
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| As I was about to bound down the staircase, my neighbour's head poked from her doorway accusingly. |
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| My hope is that sufficient pressure will come about to halt the nefarious practices occurring in that accursed place. |
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| It is a jarring shift from the fluff I post about to an issue of deadly seriousness. |
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| The principal was about to announce homecoming king, queen, prince, and princess. |
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| He laid his car keys down on the table and was about to throw the junk mail in the wastepaper basket under the table when he noticed it was full. |
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| And we were about to run out of washing powder too, but now we have 12.5 kg of environmentally friendly washing powder. |
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| There's another load of washing about to finish, and the dishes to be washed. |
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| And so now by pure accident of birth, I'm alive at a time where science is about to figure this out. |
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| Keegan quashed speculation that he is about to add Inverness Caledonian Thistle striker Dennis Haynes to his staff. |
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| He was surprised by the way she accepted him so readily, but he wasn't about to question her behavior when he was so overwhelmed. |
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| I was about to convince myself that people were finally losing interest in the story, when a little bird told me to keep going. |
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| When he joined the company as finance director six years ago, the City was alight with speculation that it was about to be taken over. |
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| She was always a sucker for a good martial artist but wasn't about to let that slip just yet. |
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| Just as he is about to get to the bottom of the affair, he is warned off by the American ambassador in Saigon. |
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| In the child's imagination, fuelled by science-fiction, the aliens are about to land. |
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| Was she in quarantine to protect most of her immediate family from the disease that was about to end her life? |
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| Are we about to sail? We are if the Blue Peter is on the masthead. Back to the ship, you jack-tars, unless you want a flogging. |
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| Part social and part scientific, the courses were especially important for bringing together war brides about to leave for a foreign country. |
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| I thought I was about to be introduced when Katy began jabbering away about Murphy, my dog, who was sitting on the floor next to me. |
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| If Australia was not at or about to be at war, the tactical voter's decision would be easy this weekend. |
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| When she was about to hit the next in the vertical line, he drew a small dirk and jabbed at her. |
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| But just as she was about to strike, the ground began to tremble and quake, knocking her off-balance, but she managed to regain her footing. |
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| After all, a priest doesn't provide absolution for sins about to be committed. |
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| He was about to cut his finger on the kukri he kept on his desk for the blood needed in the spell when he noticed something. |
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| The marine life was much the same again, but as we were about to surface we saw the bright colours of a wrasse emerge from under the bonnet. |
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| If you don't get that, you might be about to make yourself look a bit of a wally. |
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| Just as they were about to give up hope, Mr Smith started whooping and yelling. |
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| Luckily however, her mother and neighbours were not about to give up on the notion and warned her that if she didn't enter, they'd do it for her! |
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| They seemed content to sit back and invite Arsenal to come on to them, and the league leaders were not about to spurn the invitation. |
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| I quickly left the midges behind but they were not about to give up and descending into Tarsaughaun, I could hear the hum at fifty yards. |
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| Because of this error, the Fed is about to discover that its entire effort to reflate the economy through low rates has failed. |
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| Increased fuel prices couldn't come at a worse time for the domestic industry with competition in the local market about to hot up. |
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| Ireland were not about to ease off, and emphasised the point with Henderson's dramatic arrival in midfield. |
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| Just when it looks like you are about to enter the village of Brotton, a steep path re-enters the wood and we have a beck to cross. |
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| He leaps aboard and the most extraordinary adventure of his young life is about to begin. |
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| We may be about to reengage in a debate that was abandoned in 1996 when welfare reform was passed. |
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| Natasha, that's exactly what I was about to say, you took the words out of my mouth. |
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| In March, police arrested a group of wealthy businessmen and government officials who were about to dine on illegal tiger meat. |
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| William was about to speak again, but the old man waved his efforts aside. |
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| However, Abbott is not about to let cold hard facts get in the way of a little politically motivated demagoguery. |
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| A palace insider however insisted to the Daily Beast today that the Queen was not about to abdicate. |
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| The dreamer tries to help, and fends off a man who is about to accost her with lecherous intentions. |
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| What had seemed to be a theoretical and almost mythical project is just about to take concrete form. |
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| Harry Hudson was about to launch a music career when he found a tumor the size of a grapefruit in his chest. |
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| Never have two people been more in love than Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace Lancaster, and now one of them is about to die. |
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| It sounds like you're in the bathtub with me as I describe the back massage I am about to give you. |
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| Finally, as the sun was about to set, she came upon a little cottage that belonged to seven dwarfs. |
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| Someone like Alexander Nemorov might say that they are really portraits of bewigged heads about to roll. |
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| Unfortunately for the wannabe-thugs at 1325 G St., the friendly officers of the DCPD were not about to do their bidding. |
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| In Washington, a town known for bloviation rather than whimsy or wit, the wacky season is just about to begin. |
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| A few minutes later, the bouncer hands me a paper hat featuring an orange T-Rex about to swallow a smaller blue dinosaur. |
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| Besides, Fetterman says, the newcomers aren't about to push anyone out of Braddock who hasn't left already. |
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| Just before the New Hampshire House was about to pass a brand-new budget in June, Tremblay called it quits. |
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| Rumour abounds at present in the Caherconlish area that its out of date sewerage system is about to be upgraded with the provision of a new pump house. |
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| The problem was that Standard Life, the former owners of the shopping centre, said they were not about to spend any money removing this blot on the townscape. |
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| More than 100 residents in Greenhithe were pushed too far and showed they were more than a force to be reckoned with and they were not about to be steam-rolled. |
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| People backed the president, because they wanted to back his patriotic effort, and they were not about to throw a wartime president out of office during a war. |
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| Mr Laurence Howard, spokesperson for the Erris Action Group explained to the Western People that the people of Erris were not about to be put off by the law. |
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| With these sites abutting each other and with the appointment of such celebrated architects, it seems likely that a major arts centre is about to be created. |
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| I was about to play touch football with John-John and I could almost smell the chowder. |
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| She wasn't about to waste anymore of her precious resting time. |
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| I believe the steward is about to call the starboard watch to lunch, sir. |
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| The 22-year-old pilot who had never flown a plane before his 18th birthday was about to begin his meteoric rise to the top of the Luftwaffe's list of living aces. |
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| I wasn't about to dumb it down or jazz it up to sell it to young people. |
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| I was about to open my mouth to say something but he cut me to the quick. |
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| However, Sarah was not about to make a drama out of that crisis. |
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| She followed the man and was about to waylay him when he suddenly stopped. |
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| But bog myrtle is about to join the jet set of the shrub world. |
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| While the Clovis, California native may not have completely believed that, he wasn't about to sit around and find out. |
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| With rumours rife that Alex McLeish is about to depart Easter Road for West Ham, could the Hibees be about to experiment with an inventive job-share? |
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| The painting, packed mysteriously with a kind of coiled energy, is itself a little like a bomb about to go off. |
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| This crack races across the walls of her apartment as if the very building itself is about to collapse. |
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| Erin was about to say something when the weird bell sounded again and the students filed onto the field, and all at the same time, stopped and looked over to the cameras. |
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| This news arrived just as a ceasefire was about to come into effect. |
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| Eight minutes later things went from bad to worse as a Town player was adjudged to have dragged down Neil Tolson as he was about to receive the ball. |
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| I am about to become an old age pensioner, and am having to jump through hoops in order to get my pension paid into an account at my local post office. |
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| This may explain why our painter is careful to show Athena as about to bedeck Pandora with a characteristically feminine adornment, a fancy necklace. |
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| If the case that is about to be made turns out to be persuasive, let us try to treat it as an opportunity to up our game, not an excuse for another Scottish rammy. |
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| You guys are about to write a story that says the former attorney general, the highest ranking law enforcement officer in this country, is a crook. |
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| Jack was about to throw another heavy branch at Mesa, but the wolf became alert almost instantly as he heard whinnies and howls from somewhere off in the fields. |
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| You may well be about to embark on four days of cosseting, eating, drinking, and sleeping. |
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| Every few minutes I think of Cuba about to be ravaged by Hurrican Ivan. |
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| Large numbers of consumers and small businesses swap software, and they're not about to stump up the readies to convert their current unlicensed software to full product. |
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| See, when a company is about to be taken over, their credit rating falls, and the price of the credit default swap goes up. |
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| Running as part of an extensive magazine spread, the newspaper speculated that Foster was about to become Britain's first sidewalk surfing tycoon. |
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| In the classroom and at work, people speak and write as if a hostile lawyer were about to cross-examine them. |
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| You're not going yet, are you? I was just about to tell you my plan. |
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| Anyway, in the first keynote political speech of the year, she's reanimated the old bogeyman argument that earth's oil supply is about to run out. |
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| Mr Kelson told the jury a person who is being attacked or believes he is about to be attacked is entitled to use such force as reasonably necessary to defend himself. |
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| My sane sensible side reasserted itself quickly, but just for one second after seeing a room for let in Brighton, I was about to just up and leave. |
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| I smoothed a rebellious hair into place and turned to walk out of my room, desperately hoping that the dinner I was about to go to was a pleasant one. |
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| The insurrectionists seemed actors in a surreal episode of revolutionary play-acting in which the curtain was about to fall. |
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| As you know, Congress is about to recess for the Thanksgiving break. |
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| Convinced he was about to be king-hit, Banks threw out his forearm. |
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| Racegoers thought the trainer might even be about to withdraw him. |
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| As Willow was about to speak, a loud knock sounded on the door. |
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| Now, the company is about to become a lot more visible with the introduction of a denim collection. |
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| So we could all do without any last-minute hitches that could throw a spanner in the works just when we think everything is about to be signed and sealed. |
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| They are about to see what we so often deplore as mere sausage-making, and they will love it. |
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| I'm about to quote something pretty deplorable, but not in order to deplore it. |
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| And maybe, just maybe, there are black helicopters with United Nations decals about to descend on heartland America. |
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| The story goes that a wolf crossed the path of Domenico and, as it was about to sink its teeth into him, a snake wriggled up and sank its fangs into the wolf. |
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| The cabernet bubble is about to burst, and its not going to be pretty. |
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| Her young daughter, Alita, is about to move into the crowded home after being looked after by her grandparents. |
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| Judging by his stony-face, Joe Hart looks like he's just received news that he's about to have four wisdom teeth removed. |
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| Rab, 56, was about to empty the bin into the crusher on his truck when he saw the hamster, who he has named Wheelies, trying to escape. |
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| Skate cinematographer Benji Meyer, the Midwest's own Betty Ford Coppola, is about to drop Weekend Warriors. |
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| Water voles are about to be added to the list of species that cannot be injured, killed or taken from the wild. |
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| Scots actor TOMMY FLANAGAN was heading out of Glasgow for Latvia where he's about to start filming Attila the Hun. |
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| I can't believe a month ago I was living my life as usual, and now I'm a dudette about to become a pioneer traveling on a wagon train. |
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| It was a strange conceit, with our owne affliction to goe about to please and appay divine goodnesse. |
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| The money I'd spent on getting scuba certified was about to pay a dividend. My half-baked escape plan came together. |
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| Notwithstanding the high resolution of Hawkeye he fully comprehended all the difficulties and danger he was about to incur. |
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| In Match Point, when a mistress is about to blab to a wife, threatening a man's comfortable life, his solution is to bump off the girlfriend. |
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| Too many expectant mothers go to the delivery room terrified of what may be about to happen. |
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| During the mating season, the male grabs the female by the neck and drags her about to stimulate ovulation, then copulates for up to an hour. |
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| Chelsea Lately is about to become Chelsea anytime You Want Her. |
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| Every time I'm about to make an entry in this journal, I hear Paul telling me I've been vaginized. |
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| They were about to anoint Charlie Wilson as one of their own. |
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| In R v Letenock, the defendant claimed mistakenly to believe that the victim was about to attack him. |
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| He was about to stand up and start on another rant, which only would have led to Sam tranqing him. |
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| When I met Bejan and Enver at the supra, they enthusiastically told me that I was about to experience true Georgian hospitality. |
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| I shall not go about to extenuate the latitude of the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the production of weeds. |
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| The Dutch retreated to the bow, where at first it seemed they were about to surrender. |
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| With the king about to go on progress, the trials and executions were deliberately timed. |
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| He ignored the edict, and two days later he forced his way into her chamber as she was about to disrobe. |
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| It's a comforting fallacy, especially when, as in the case of Iceman, you're about to reach deep into your pocket for a hundred smackeroonies. |
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| It pumped faster than it ever had before, like it was about to burst through her chest and pummel the slutbag who was moving in on her guy. |
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| The Liberals were in power at Whitehall, largely confirmed by the Scots, and they were about to legislate on Irish Home Rule. |
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| By the second half of the 1700s South Carolina was one of the richest of what were about to become the Thirteen Colonies. |
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| Just as they are about to escape him, Lovejoy notices Rose's hand slap the water as it slips off the table behind which she is hiding. |
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| If a wolfcub had raised its head with such a movement it would have been evident that it was about to howl. |
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| A quell of strength over took Robin with each of his words. She was about to fall apart, but Jacob was as brave as a warrior going into battle. |
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| Moses was about to attack Prince Ramesses II and his Hittite army, but he ends up saving Ramesses. |
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| Around the same time, Barry and Robin were about to publish the book, On the Other Hand. |
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| Branson already had several business ventures and was about to start his own record label, Virgin Records, together with Simon Draper. |
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| Nero deliberately broke two crystal cups when he realised that he was about to be deposed, so denying their use to anyone else. |
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| This pamphlet explains to the visitor what they are about to witness and perhaps, if they so choose, be a participant in. |
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| A KUNG fu teacher is about to have the highest honour bestowed upon him when he meets the world's only female grandmaster in China this week. |
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| In Geneva, Victor is about to marry Elizabeth and prepares to fight the Creature to the death, arming himself with pistols and a dagger. |
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| The weaver also watches for warps that are about to run out, or problems in the warp itself which were not detected in the slashing process. |
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| He's about to high kick his way to Hollywood success with his latest movie, Kung Fu Hustle. |
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| A new era of Hebridean involvement in the affairs of the wider world was about to commence. |
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| Division bells notify any members not currently in the chamber that a vote is about to start. |
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| The boy has no idea about everything that's been going on. You need to brace him for what's about to happen. |
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| Of course there will be a collection of unprecedented merit in the temple about to be raised in Albertopolis. |
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| The Daily Telegraph and The Financial Times also predicted that Butler was about to be appointed. |
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| She pouts and I can tell she's about to cry. I'm sick of her fake crying games. |
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| We're about to destroy an entire hostile army and go all the way from here to the German border. |
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| No one, of course, has seen her, and Ned and Beetie are about to experience the hammocking, cradlesome shock that is the beginning of despair. |
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| But she pertinaciously refused to make any response. So that he was about to make her mittimus to Bridewell when I departed. |
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| You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. |
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| The collapse of the Balkans meant that Germany was about to lose its main supplies of oil and food. |
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| Frere did not send word to the cabinet of what he had done until the ultimatum was about to expire. |
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| Dollar serving as the global reserve currency and why it is about to change. |
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| Actors, please assume your positions. The show is about to begin. |
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| Etymologists frequently trace the word to writers referring to one who set about to raid and pillage. |
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| The opponent would try to maneuver and avoid contact, or alternately rush all the marines to the side about to be hit, thus tilting the boat. |
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| Williams could have opted to continue with BMW engines in 2006, despite the fact that the engine manufacturer was about to set up its own team. |
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| Rapist footballer set for comeback RAPIST footballer Ched Evans may be about to be given a second chance in the game with a League One club. |
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| The other band members agreed, and the idea came about to salvage the footage shot for the TV production for use in a feature film. |
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| The quarterback was blindsided just as he was about to throw a pass. |
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| If such intelligence is unavailable, the TSM sweeping instead reproduces the influence of the friendly ship that is about to transit the area. |
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| Sensing that he was about to be indicted in retribution he fled to France in March 1792 to avoid imprisonment. |
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| Holbein returned to England in 1532 as Thomas Cromwell was about to transform religious institutions there. |
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| As the new series of Celebrity Juice is about to kick off on ITV2 host Keith Lemon reels off his guest wish list. |
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| The racetrack announcer said that the next race was about to start. |
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| But basketball season is about to begin and Hamed Haddadi is rarin' to go for the Memphis Grizzlies. |
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| Booting is when the wheat head is about to emerge from the top leaf sheath of the stem. |
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| On 29 August 492, the Goths were about to assemble enough ships at Rimini to set up an effective blockade of Ravenna. |
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| Sealed cells with about to emerge queens are used for queening the divisions. |
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| Excuse me, where is the little boys' room? My son is about to burst a bladder. |
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| Polls show three-quarters of the people don't want us to invade Haiti. Nonetheless, it appears we're about to go knee-deep in the Big Muddy. |
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| She was certain she was about to kick up dust about her mother just as Setsuka had done about Mitsu's death eighteen years ago. |
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| Henry was about to sail for England to pursue his claim when his lands were attacked. |
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| Sources said officers closed the security gate at Lanark Way early as the Eleventh bonfire was about to be lit. |
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| Cliff wasn't about to go off to Chicago without the best blow-buddy he'd ever had. |
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| Italy's right-wing prime minister was about to cure his biggest headache by selling the state's holding in a troubled airline, Alitalia. |
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| This is all one thing as if hee should goe about to jussle her into some filthy stinking guzzle or ditch. |
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| There may be other... matters to occupy the thoughts of one about to be bishopped. |
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| Coetus without co-existence is demonic. What are you, you man and woman who are about to enter into sexual relations? |
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| I was about to deliver a laugh line when this woman heckles, ruining all my momentum. |
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| Whether they figured immediate selection for gravedom, by pointing skeletal finger, was about to commence, or what, I don't know. |
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| The Chukwu fuctuplets are about to turn 1, and the eyes of the media will be turning toward Texas. |
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| Further on, when she's about to reach her first O, the taste turns from no taste to champagne-like. |
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| They didn't mention that the bang bus was about to arrive with gainful employment. |
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| I felt a frisson just as they were about to announce the winner in my category. |
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| Bejine stops outside of the portal. He is about to enter it when Nyssa stops him. |
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| They got on a bus, and as Sam was about to foller Ginger and Peter on top, Mr. Goodman took hold of 'im by the arm and said they'd go inside. |
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| One of the most elaborate extant examples of this genre is a speech by Libanius, an ethopoeia of Medea as she is about to kill her children. |
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| That dingbat cut me off as I was about to conclude my theses. |
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| She was about to retort but something checked the words on her tongue. |
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| We were about to follow this advice, when another man, more rash than his comrades, said, 'I'm not afraid of caymans,' and spurred his horse into the stream. |
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| Although the band seemed to have maintained their momentum and recovered well from the split of the original lineup, they were about to be hit by a serious tragedy. |
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| It was only discovered as the ship was about to arrive in Penzance. |
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| However, deer bow heads to signal that they are about to headbutt. |
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| She was about to be sick right here in front of them all. That would be the worst humiliation imaginable. Mustn't cast up my accounts, mustn't cast up my accounts. |
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| Night has now passed in the Saudi desert and as we hear from Nightline correspondent Forrest Sawyer, the normal cadence of life at the front is about to change. |
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| Only Peter was out of the picture. He was a strange, disconsolate figure, as he shifted about to ease his leg, or gazed incuriously from the window. |
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| Rumours began to appear in the press that the band was about to break up, but a band spokesmen stated that the intention was to return to the States later in the year. |
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| Jim went over to hit on that girl at the bar, but as he opened his mouth, he felt he was about to bust a move, so he continued toward the patio outside. |
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| A GROUP of women who have taken part in a Women Returners Project run by North Warwickshire and Hinckley College are about to complete their course. |
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| Passed by and ignored on a daily basis by the Breslavians hurrying about to work or relaxation, its spectacular implosion has made of it an element that cannot be overlooked. |
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| Now that cycle-counting is about to begin, there should be no way for nonwarehouse staff to enter the warehouse in order to take parts off the shelf. |
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| Energy companies are about to increase nuclear power production, as in July 2010 the Finnish parliament granted permits for additional two new reactors. |
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| An absolute must-have for anyone about to deal with very young children, whether welcoming a new family member or just baby-sitting for a few hours. |
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| However, just as he is about to go to college, Abel dies and Uncle James cheats him out of all the savings he had up to that point, leaving him penniless once again. |
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