Example sentences of "[verb] me [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even worse , you would tell me about new poems you had started to write , and it was like a dagger in my heart when you described working on them without my help — though the real reason you had come back to see me was to labour over them with me , adding my suggestions and excisions in the margins in your minuscule script . |
| 2 | The first person who came to see me was n't Doone after all but Tremayne . |
| 3 | I quickly discovered that in her view it did n't have one , and that the only reason she had agreed to see me was to get this across once and for all . |
| 4 | I can appreciate Edouard would rather have me wasting my time at the museum instead of going round to his flat and trying to persuade Barbara Coleman to leave , but sending someone to kill me was rather an over-reaction . ’ |
| 5 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 6 | I saw no one on the long lonely road home , and the only enemy that attacked me was the midges . |
| 7 | What really concerned me was how to finance a tunnel project of any kind . |
| 8 | What particularly concerned me was their feeling that Balbinder seemed to understand and respond better in Punjabi . |
| 9 | The other thing that concerned me was particular slots which do n't seem to ever produce much in the way of attendance or revenue . |
| 10 | The only thing that concerned me was that , with Stephen Pears injured , I was the oldest player in the team . |
| 11 | The Chairman of the Governors asked me was there a precedent in a flowing her to come into the interviews , and I said ‘ No , the precedent has already been set and that she was n't in on the other appointments . ’ |
| 12 | Last thing he asked me was where he might find Florrie Shaw . |
| 13 | Th th the point that erm we were then discussing was that in practice of course males may , m ma may contribute a lot more an and , and the question was is this er something to do with the adaptions of our species or is it just the this was the question you , you asked me was n't it ? |
| 14 | What got me was the way she made this rather bizarre suggestion seem so utterly reasonable . |
| 15 | ROBBIE What got me was when I went to other folks ' houses . |
| 16 | ALL THAT WAS GIVEN ME WAS THE MATTER OF THREE SCENES , AND THE CENTRAL IDEA OF A VOLUNTARY CHANGE BECOMING INVOLUNTARY . |
| 17 | What upset me was hearing the door locked . |
| 18 | His way of praising me was to say that I wrote as naturally as a hen laying eggs , or to remark , after he had destroyed a work with his criticisms , ‘ Everything I have not marked seems to me either good or excellent . |
| 19 | Not that Dare was brainless-Seconds considered John Kennedy 's assassination , and Do n't You Want Me was as perceptive a snapshot of Eighties mores as pop would produce . |
| 20 | And my magic wrought true — for it was into your time I came , to Starr Hills , where I had walked four hundred years before ; and coming to meet me was a man who asked me simply if I were a mermaid , for he had seen me walking out of the sea . ’ |
| 21 | The question which beset me was , ‘ Has all this suffering , this dying around us , a meaning ? ’ |
| 22 | And of course what defeated me was knows this fellow that is an ambulance driver and he 's classed as working class . |
| 23 | The people who reported me were overzealous in thinking I had done something wrong |
| 24 | The photographs which encircled me were happy with many smiling , young faces on them . |
| 25 | The only time anyone other than Alan helped me was when Andy Norman , via John Bicourt , found me someone who helped me with my back problems . |
| 26 | The only person who approached me was poor Ian Smith , who came to London but was not a representative at the talks . |
| 27 | ‘ All I do know is that others who approached me were warned off . |
| 28 | Getting to know me was a bad idea . ’ |
| 29 | What woke me was the land singing . |
| 30 | Then I hear the guy laugh downstairs and what really woke me was the dog . |