Sentence examples for about to begin about from inspiring English sources

Throughout, Updike carefully interweaves a sense of events about to begin, about to be missed ("Meanwhile our President Obama waits / downstairs to be unwrapped"), with delicately evoked details of the past ("and I, a child /... pause here, one hand upon the banister, / and breathe the scent of fresh-cut evergreens").

Mayor Davis said he expected construction to begin about October and take about six weeks.

The good news is that a conversation about health care is about to begin in Washington.

About to begin his lecture, he noticed something about the students before him.

18 NEW YORK/REGION 33-38 NeWaveve of Construction Begins on Roosevelt Island Work is about to begin to add about 2,000 apartments to Roosevelt Island.

They gave no indication, however, of why the previous rounds of talks had failed, or why they might be hopeful about the one about to begin.

The collapse came as the Yankees and Angels were about to begin batting practice, about four hours before their game was to start.

Now, however, he is about to begin a four-year prison term, about $11 million in debt and mainly an afterthought to the industry he helped foster.

Now, though, he is about to begin a four-year prison term, about $11 million in debt, Andrew Pollack writes in The New York Times.

Mr Stringer takes over just as the next round is about to begin, and Sony is about to take an enormous gamble on the PlayStation 3.The PlayStation 3 is built on a daring new architecture, based on the "Cell" chip developed jointly by Sony, Toshiba and IBM.

In 1962 the Italian poet, novelist and cinema immortal Pier Paolo Pasolini talked for the first time about a movie he was about to begin, a work he called an "essay in film journalism," titled "La Rabbia" ("Rage").