The phrase "about to take something" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that someone is on the verge of obtaining or receiving something soon.
Example: "I was about to take something from the shelf when I noticed it was fragile."
Alternatives: "on the verge of taking something" or "ready to take something".
"We're brainstorming about how to take something that was kind of a beacon to the world about counterculture and music and community in 1969 and transforming it into a 21st century phenomenon that has an Internet platform instead of a live one".
It's about being able to take something from one place and apply it in another.
There's something really magic and beautiful about being able to take something that was created for one purpose and then put it towards your art practice and make something really new and beautiful and meaningful with that.
"The practice of teaching is inherently about communicating well and it's about figuring out how to take something that I know and putting it in your head and getting you to understand it," she says.
What is particularly enticing about this opportunity is to take something as remarkably successful as the Internet Fund both in terms of investment performance as well as asset growth over the past year and build it out and take advantage of the numerous opportunities that are really out there and become what I like to foresee as a cutting-edge organization in the investment management arena.
We'd gotten into a conversation about craftsmanship and forging, to take something and rework it into something else, like what we did with the sample.
Interestingly, Wahlberg, who also produced "The Gambler" at Paramount, decided he wanted to hire Wyatt for the gig after seeing "Apes". "There was something about his vision, his ability to take something that looked like a simple genre movie be really human and real," the actor said.
Of the Pentagon's spin machine she complained: "They used me as a way to symbolise all this stuff... I'm not about to take credit for something I didn't do".
But every time that view seems about to take hold, something happens to make investors fear a more sinister possibility: that years of debt-financed growth are finally unravelling and that the Anglo-Saxon economies face as bleak a decade as Japan did in the 1990s.
Then as I was about to take it off something caught my eye.
