I am about to explain that I can't possibly help her at this very moment as I have several looming deadlines, when I realise that it's no longer that simple.
I live in this area of Toronto that is Queen West although this scene I am about to explain, by the way, applies to all big cities.
"As I was about to explain," said the book testily.
Her voice is already breaking from what she is about to explain.
Mr. Coram interrupts his narrative's flow too often to explain what he's about to explain.
He was about to explain how the capital gains tax favors newspaper cannibalism...when he noticed the kids were yawming.
Listen closely, because the chief bad guy is about to explain everything right before he kills you!
I was about to explain some of these objections to Schulman in our corner of the coffee shop, but she interrupted: "You know I'm an artist, right?
Barcelona's manager was about to explain what shape his team were in for the trip to Munich when he found out that, never mind Europe for a moment, they were about to win the Spanish league.
Soon it's time for Judith Miller, the former reporter for The Times, who rejects criticism of her faulty reporting about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (and is cut off as she is about to explain why).
