Sentence examples for about to be sent from inspiring English sources

A telephone call in the midst of discussing philosophy would inform Dummett that an East-African Asian attempting to enter Britain was about to be sent back, and transform Dummett from philosopher to activist, dashing to the airport to argue the case.

At last, just as Mr. Bachrach was about to be sent packing, Kennedy appeared.

Woodward and Bernstein are about to be sent back to the metro desk.

She looks as though she's about to be sent to the headteacher's office.

His only uncle, Gerald Dixon, is an Army sergeant about to be sent to the Middle East.

Sure that he was about to be sent to Vietnam, he drank ten beers, abandoned his patrol, and crossed into North Korea.

There she found the walls covered with drawings of butterflies, scratched by children who were about to be sent to the gas chambers.

Unbelievably, though his bad leg still buckled whenever he jumped out of a truck, he was about to be sent to Asia when the war ended.

He was about to be sent home and he hated to go back to what would probably be an uncertain and difficult life.

His reversal is largely symbolic: Mr Beebe, a conservative Democrat in a deeply conservative state, is not about to be sent an abolition bill.

Sure that he was about to be sent to Vietnam, he drank… Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was one of Russia's great chroniclers of social circumstances.