Sentence examples for were about to shut from inspiring English sources

Just as we were about to shut the closet door, I caught a glimpse of fire-engine red lace.

She said that she and her friends were about to shut the party down because it had become too crowded and the mood had shifted — then the gunfire broke out.

At the time the Republicans were about to shut down the entire government.

Coal and its utility allies -- led by the Southern Company -- argued that they were about to shut down their fleet of old coal clunkers anyway, and that pollution controls would be a silly expense for assets that were about to be retired.

We got there 10 minutes before the restaurant was about to shut but our waiter, Kenny, was happy to serve us if we could order quickly.

Since starting the search two months ago the team have had to run for shelter a number of times and with the weather closing in, the operation is about to shut down until next summer.

Her blanket factory was about to shut.

The only problem: Clifton Ward was about to shut down.

We're about to shut down our Dell desktop, on which we have our iTunes account.

There was, however, one glitch: the gondola was about to shut down.

This week, B&Q announced that it's about to shut one in six of its stores.