Example sentences of "[pron] was [adj] [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was just using the fact that I was desperate to hold me up for an outrageously high fee . |
| 2 | Clever as he was , he was n't sufficiently clever to see this , and his assumption that I was half-witted made me stubbornly worse . |
| 3 | When she arrived , shaking the snow off her shoes , she was shocked to find me there . |
| 4 | It turned out that she lived in some place called Romford and as she was due to take me back there the day after the funeral I had only been left with a few hours to make a decision . |
| 5 | Yeah , but she gets more allowance this week cos she was supposed to give me bloody thirty five quid she owes me . |
| 6 | I tried to sell it , but no one was willing to offer me more than five shillings , so Bob uses it for picking up the produce from the market every morning . ’ |
| 7 | He was a young er man er who was just er a young boy , he was promoting records and trying to get into the business and , and er he remembered me well , and when they found out that I was n't easy to , to reach , no-one knew where I was , he was able to track me down and when he told me that er I had this big hit record , I thought it was someone playing a joke on me , because here in America , they have a television show called The Blue Bird , where they play jokes on people and , and tell them things , and then they videotape you and then there 's a funny reaction that this is a big television show . |