In the following picture, you can find the results that I found with my search of "ABOUT TO DO" in the British National Corpus. This website allows one to search for words or phrases by the exact word or phrase. Interestinly, this tool shows how this word or phrase has been used in a large data base of texts. Within those texts in the data base, it is easy to find the frequency of words and phrases in any possible combination of types of texts (spoken, academic, poetry, medical, etc) and compare whether one word of phrase is more common in one type of text than in other.
I also found Linguee a very useful tool. The main advantage is to check in a wide variety of language combinations, how the translation of a particular word or phrase has been done in a large set of translations between two languages. The results shown below belong to the search of "ABOUT TO"and how it should be translated from English into Spanish.
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